Jun 20, 2025 minute read

Internal FBI emails have revealed that the Biden Department of Justice had an “obsession with piling on Trump charges,” according to the New York Post, after reviewing emails obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA). The emails showed that the FBI directly targeted Trump over the January 6 defendant choir.  

The emails from 2023 obtained by the Iowa senator showed what the Post called “an example of the nitpicking malice of anti-Trump lawfare that tainted special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation” during Biden’s tenure in office.

An email written by prosecutor JP Cooney to other colleagues in the DOJ on March 8, 2023, stated, “Can we do some work to nail down Trump’s role in this,” with the subject line of “J6 Prisoner Choir/DJT.” Attached in the email was a report from Forbes, which said that Trump collaborated on a song with the January 6 defendants.

“According to this Forbes article, Trump recorded the Pledge of Allegiance at MAL [Mar a Lago] and Kash Patel [now FBI director] and Ed Henry [a former Fox News host] were also involved,” Cooney wrote in the string of emails.

“The profits are routed to an LLC run by Henry, and proceeds are intended for families of incarcerated J6 defendants — but there is apparently a vetting process that excludes families of defendants who assaulted police officers,” Cooney added in the email. “I asked Ahmed to preserve this last night. I’ll talk to Maria/Erin and Julia about doing some follow up here to nail down Trump’s role.” Per the New York Post, Ahmed is likely prosecutor Ahmed Baset, who was fired earlier in June.

Cooney also told the DOJ team to start looking into Ed Henry’s LLC, likely having to do with gaining a warrant or subpoena to gather evidence.

The email was sent to eight different DOJ staff members, including FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina. Two days later, Giardina said he was investigating Trump as well as others over the J6 choir and song. “Esther and I are working on this today. We’re going to put together our findings at 2 and get something to you shortly after that,” she wrote.

According to Grassley, Giardina was “Agent Zero” in many of what the Post called “overzealous FBI actions involving Trump and his allies,” which included the investigation of Trump advisor Peter Navarro. Navarro was detained at Reagan National Airport in 2022 and then put in jail for being in contempt of Congress instead of giving him a court summons. Giardina also had a heavy part in the Operation Crossfire Hurricane investigation surrounding Trump’s alleged involvement with Russia that was later debunked. Grassley said he was also the “initial recipient of the Steele Dossier” as well as “electronically wiped the laptop he was assigned while working for Special Counsel Mueller outside of established protocol for record preservation, raising the possibility that he destroyed government records.”

Grassley, who has been known to heavily investigate corruption cases in the government, said that the email chain is another “clear example” of the federal government weaponizing the Justice Department to go after Trump.

“Instead of focusing on DOJ and FBI’s core law enforcement responsibilities, partisan prosecutors and agents were surfing the web to find any shred of information they could use to spin another baseless case against Trump. Their actions are a disservice to Americans, who pay their salaries and depend on DOJ and FBI to keep them safe,” Grassley said.

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