The FBI has fired two agents who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal investigations into Donald Trump, one of whom was just months away from being eligible for retirement.
The agency also took disciplinary action against a third FBI agent who worked in connection with Smith’s federal probes into Trump’s hoarding of classified documents and his actions in and around the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, NBC News reported.
All three agents were identified in documents obtained by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, regarding Smith’s “Arctic Frost” team.
The FBI reportedly shut down the division after the team allegedly analyzed phone records from several Republican senators as part of the federal investigation into Trump’s alleged atte