Senator Schmitt Chairs Senate Judiciary Hearing on Arctic Frost, Reveals New Bombshell Documents Exposing Biden Administration’s Political Weaponization of Justice Department

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, held a hearing titled "Arctic Frost: Conspiracy and Coordination Against President Trump and the American Right." Schmitt worked with Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) to release new records exposing the existence of "Operation Rampart Twelve," another Biden FBI investigation that targeted Republican Members of Congress. The FBI secretly obtained Members' phone toll records as part of the investigation, despite text messages showing Justice Department prosecutors expressing concerns about the legal requirements for doing so. FBI Headquarters closed the investigation one year later after failing to uncover credible evidence to support the case. The Senators also released documents revealing the Biden White House's coordination with Fani Willis' Fulton County District Attorney's Office amid Willis' criminal investigation into President Trump.

Watch the Senator's opening remarks HERE.

"In this country, law enforcement is supposed to investigate crimes. It's not supposed to investigate political movements. It's not supposed to map the opposition. It's not supposed to use subpoenas, search warrants, non-disclosure orders, telecom records, bank records, device searches and secrecy tools to build a profile of one side of American politics. But that is what the evidence increasingly suggests happened here. The Biden administration was not just investigating a crime; they were seeking to dismantle a political movement. The American people deserve to know what Arctic frost really was. Arctic frost and the effort to take down the American right was broader, darker and far more dangerous than anything we've seen in modern political history. The Biden administration launched a whole of government effort to identify, intimidate, bankrupt and jail the people and institutions that made up President Trump's political world. It looks like a dragnet, a fishing expedition. It reached President Trump. It reached his lawyers. It reached former officials. It reached Republican organizations. It reached conservative institutions. It reached communications records. It reached members of Congress. It reached people and groups whose real offense appears to have been associated with President Trump and the American Right", said Senator Schmitt during his opening remarks.

Schmitt questioned the witnesses on the importance of uncovering the truth of the Biden Administration's political weaponization and what future charges should be brought to hold those accountable.

Schmitt: "You also raised the possibility that this just wasn't a bad judgment or even just political bias, but that this was potentially unlawful conduct, correct? Could a conspiracy against rights be one of those kinds of charges under federal law?"

Professor Daniel Z. Epstein: "Under Section 241, absolutely. And you know, I think this committee has done very good work on investigating that. I think, as you pointed out, the process is the punishment, and when you have very aggressive bureaucrats who want to coordinate with prosecutors in a way that doesn't follow the process doesn't follow fair procedures that raises the significant risk of conspiracy against rights".

Watch the Senator's full questioning HERE.

The documents released can be accessed here:

• Exhibit A
• Exhibit B
• Exhibit C

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