❓WHAT HAPPENED: New documents reveal further evidence of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “weaponization” against Donald J. Trump and his allies.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Senator Charles “Chuck” Grassley (R-IA), Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI, and Trump aide Peter Navarro.
📍WHEN & WHERE: October 7, 2025; Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
💬KEY QUOTE: “This is the kind of conduct that shattered the American people’s faith in our government.” – Pam Bondi
🎯IMPACT: Increased scrutiny on the FBI’s actions and potential legal ramifications.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has released fresh documents pointing to additional “weaponization” of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against President Donald J. Trump under indicted former Director James Comey. Among them is a message from then-Supervisory Special Agent Tim Thibault dated March 2, 2017, shortly after President Trump’s first inauguration, where he boasts that the Squad CR-15/Federal Public Corruption & Government Fraud team was “Aggressively seeking out open-source information, HUMINT info that could predicate a case” against the America First leader.
The files also shed light on the FBI’s handling of Peter Navarro, a key Trump advisor convicted on contempt of Congress charges. Grassley, 92, took issue with the bureau’s choice to arrest Navarro in full view at an airport rather than discreetly at his residence, “which was literally right next to FBI Headquarters,” deeming it “unnecessary” and appearing to imply a political motive.
During her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi labeled the FBI’s conduct a “historic betrayal of public trust.” She highlighted how 92 Republican figures and organizations faced invasive FBI probes.
Grassley further unveiled a 2017 memo about an FBI investigation into payments linked to former President Bill Clinton. He raised doubts about whether the FBI chased this lead with the intensity it applied to its pursuit of Trump, asking, “Did the FBI throw its resources behind this matter just like it did against Trump and his associates? Or did they sweep it all under the rug?”
“Attorney General Bondi, I expect you to provide me with all records relating to these matters for further verification,” he added.
BREAKING: Comey FBI secretly targeted Trump in a separate 2016 campaign investigation unrelated to Crossfire Hurricane, conducted thru his Counterintelligence Division (Strzok). Here’s internal doc spitballing about “foreign contributions, straw donor[s].”https://t.co/iDwXRvw4ln
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) October 7, 2025
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