President Trump suggested former Biden officials like special counsel Jack Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland should be prosecuted for probing Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn what he said was a rigged 2020 election.
Mr. Smith, Mr. Garland, along with former FBI Director Christopher Wray and ex-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco were all mentioned in Mr. Trump’s Friday social media post.
“Just in: Documents show conclusively that Christopher Wray, Deranged Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and other crooked lowlifes from the failed Biden Administration, signed off on Operation Arctic Frost,” the president wrote. “They spied on Senators and Congressmen/women, and even taped their calls. They cheated and rigged the 2020 Presidential Election. These Radical Left Lunatics should be prosecuted for their illegal and highly unethical behavior!”
Arctic Frost was launched in 2022 to probe the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The FBI secretly obtained call records for nine GOP lawmakers — eight senators and one congressman — for three days starting Jan. 4, 2021.
The operation led to Mr. Smith’s indictment of Mr. Trump for election interference.
The Republican lawmakers who were analyzed were Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
Newly declassified documents released this week showed that Mr. Garland and Mr. Wray approved the investigation into Mr. Trump and the Republican officials.
