The FBI arctic freeze investigation has targeted dozens of republican entities

The President of the Senate Judicial Committee Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed on Tuesday that the FBI elections in the FBI elections on President Donald Trump, launched in 2022, swept away dozens of republican entities, notably the United States of Charlie Kirk.

Speaking during an hearing focused on FBI surveillance, Grassley said that the investigation, that the office called the “Arctic frost”, was of a partisan nature and that its extensive scope was proof.

“In other words, the Arctic Frost was not only a case to investigate Trump,” said Grassley. “It was a vehicle by which the FBI supporting agents and prosecutors of the Ministry of Justice could reach their supporters and invest in the entire republican political apparatus.”

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The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, talks to the president of the Senate judicial committee, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, before an audience entitled “The surveillance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation”, Tuesday, September 16, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

Since January, Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Have published files related to the Arctic Frost, the investigation launched during the mandate of the FBI director, Chris Wray, who served as the basis for former special lawyer Jack Smith to carry criminal charges against Trump linked to the 2020 elections.

Grassley unveiled on Tuesday a new set of documents during its opening declaration which showed many organizations affiliated with the Republicans and people were targeted with assignments during the frost of the Arctic.

The director of the FBI at the time, Christopher Wray, speaks during a press conference in the American Department of Justice on December 6, 2023 in Washington, DC (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)

Certain targets of the list were well known, such as Sidney Powell, who made controversial allegations about the 2020 elections, and the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani. But the basis for targeting other groups, such as the Kirk group and the Republican Procordneys General Association (RAGA), was less clear.

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“For years, the deep state, the bureaucrats of Biden not elected – including the FBI – used the law to target the AG Republicans and many other close friends because we were allies of Donald Trump,” said the executive director of the RAGA, Adam Piper, in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Administration Biden grated the rule of law, gave a license to the liberals without law and did everything possible to lower themselves for any opposition. The AG Republicans will endeavor to hold these bad players responsible and to help President Trump to restore objectivity to our federal agencies of application of the law and intelligence.”

The founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, arrives to speak to the presidential republican candidate, former president Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, on October 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP photo / Alex Brandon, file)

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Kirk was assassinated last week when he speaks during an event at the University of Utah Valley. He was a prolific conservative activist and his massive organization remains a part of his inheritance. Turning Point USA recruited conservative students and was strongly involved in promoting the electoral participation rate. In the aftermath of the 2020 elections, Kirk amplified some of Trump’s claims on electoral fraud.

Utah Spencer Cox Governor and leaders from the Ministry of Justice said the suspect in Kirk’s shooting, Tyler Robinson, was motivated by left -wing ideology but the investigation remains at an early stage. The authorities said that the anti -fascist messaging found on bullet sockets, discord messages and other messages have contributed to developing an understanding of Robinson’s reason as the investigation continues.

Danielle Wallace of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.