Hades may have frozen over, but Democrat scandal problems are just warming up. Yesterday’s biggest news was buried under a heaping hill of salacious stories about an old pedo boomer who helped Charlie Kirk’s assassin, and some very sketchy text messages between the killer and his homosexual lover. But set all that aside for now. It’s time to learn about Operation Arctic Frost— what could be the biggest abuse-of-power case in living memory.
We’ll start in Florida, where yesterday, State AG James Uthmeier announced opening a Sunshine State investigation into former Biden officials.
Also yesterday, the New York Post ran a related story headlined, “FBI ‘Arctic Frost’ probe targeted nearly 100 GOP groups — including Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA.”
Yesterday, in the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) published major new evidence of Biden’s weaponization of government against conservatives. The top line announcement is that Biden’s FBI was actively investigating Charlie Kirk and Turning Point, USA for election interference prosecution. But Biden’s sewer runs much deeper.
In April, 2022, Biden’s DOJ secretly started an operation code-named “Arctic Frost.” At first, it was tasked to investigate President Trump for election interference crimes. In November 2022, special prosecutor Jack Smith was appointed to lead the operation. It was described in FBI documents as “a joint investigation between FBI, DOJ Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Postal Service, and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).”
According to reams and documents, whistleblower testimony, and surreptitious recordings of other FBI officials made by the whistleblowers, the investigation ultiamtely metastasized into a vast, wide-ranging snowball of at least ninety-two Republican-aligned groups and persons, including organizations like the Republican National Committee, the Republican Attorneys General Association, Turning Point USA (and Charlie Kirk), and Trump’s legal and political allies like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
The documents show (so far) that as of January 2023, Biden’s FBI had already conducted over 200 interviews, served a blizzard of 400+ subpoenas, including cell phone and banking records, searched 200+ email/social media accounts, seized 10 phones and 28 other “electronic devices,” and otherwise were on an investigatory spree unmatched since the FBI went to war with Al Capone.
But this time, instead of the mob, the FBI went to war against the entire Republican party.
The bare subpoena numbers mask the historic scope. Just one of the subpoenas, for example, demanded Twitter turn over “all lists of Twitter users who have favorited, retweeted, mentioned, or replied to tweets posted by” President Trump’s account. I’m pretty sure everyone reading this post was on Biden’s list.
If these allegations hold up, they will represent one of the most consequential governmental abuses in modern U.S. history, fundamentally threatening the credibility and neutrality of American law enforcement and the right to political dissent. The gravity is similar in scale to historic scandals such as Watergate or COINTELPRO, but on an even wider, modern scale.
That’s how big this scandal could be.
🔥 Now let’s circle back to the Sunshine State’s surprising plan to melt the Arctic Frost. The strategy of pursuing criminal charges against Biden officials from Florida is both audacious and electrifying. It hearkens to the Democrats’ strategy of pursuing President Trump both in federal and state courts, like Fani Willis’ moribund case or Alvin Bragg’s case in New York.
Just as Fulton County AG Willis based her case on alleged harms to the people of Georgia— AG Uthmeier may now be focusing on harms to Florida-based organizations like TPUSA chapters. Because state charges —such as any based on RICO or violations of Florida’s civil rights laws— stand separate from federal claims, they stand alone.
Presidential pardons do not erase state law crimes. And Florida’s RICO statute is, in many ways, broader and easier to prove than the federal version. It is often called one of the nation’s broadest RICO statutes, and it applies not just to traditional organized crime, but also explicitly applies to official corruption and conceivably to large-scale conspiracies involving misuse of governmental authority.
Simultaneously pursuing multiple, overlapping legal cases at both state and federal levels hideously complicates things for the defense, increases the pressure and chaos, and multiplies the potential legal exposure. This “multiple front” strategy was the hallmark of the legal campaign against President Trump— now, apparently, being mirrored in a response from the right.
Since Democrats pioneered the precedent during the Trump lawfare period, nothing now prevents other Red State (or even county) Attorneys General from bringing similar charges against the same Biden officials, who may soon find themselves facing prosecution in multiple states and courts, just like President Trump did. They can’t even argue it isn’t “fair.” No one is above the law, remember?
Here’s the most promising part: the only reason AG Uthmeier is able to even consider these investigations and potential criminal prosecutions is because he is receiving reams of declassified documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee. There’s no realistic way Uthmeier could ever have gotten that evidence on his own. A Biden or Harris FBI would have simply refused to turn it over.
But now, Florida’s AG will likely get whatever he needs pursuant to any properly constituted criminal investigation. In effect, Congressional Republicans are “arming” red state officials with federal-level information to legitimize and support investigations into unpardonable crimes that would otherwise be impossible to get off the ground.
Biden’s officials are going to need a lot more lawyers.
Recall also that, thanks to Democrat lawfare, the Supreme Court recently redefined presidential immunity —when and how presidents can be prosecuted for crimes— thereby ending the unstated, 250-year-old gentlemen’s agreement protecting all previous presidents from any prosecution at all. It is easy to imagine that SCOTUS will also quickly and definitively curtail the scope of “qualified immunity”— another murky and ill-defined doctrine that shields rank-and-file federal employees from criminal prosecution.
Can you imagine how breathtakingly big this could get? The Democrats already face a raging blizzard of scandals, from RussiaGate to January 6th to (probably) Epstein to now what may be their biggest political problem yet. It’s becoming hard to track them all. If this Arctic snowball keeps rolling, it won’t just be big— it could avalanche into one of the greatest reckonings in American political history.
If Operation Arctic Frost is proven to be real, systemic, and aimed at criminalizing mainstream political dissent, the Democrats could find themselves staring into a political ice age.
We’re far from any endgame. But, like the snowy peaks of a distant mountain range rising on the horizon, we might be able to see the endgame from here.
