Pam Bondi erupts as she claims Biden administration took Trump's phone

Attorney General Pam Bondi lashed out at the Biden administration on X Tuesday after she accused it of “unprecedented action” of seizing President Donald Trump’s phone.

Bondi made the announcement as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into Operation Arctic Frost, an alleged project perpetrated by the Biden administration to investigate Republicans over efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“During the Arctic Frost Investigation, we found that Special Counsel seized President Trump’s government-issued phone,” Bondi wrote.

“This means the Biden Administration turned over President Trump’s phone to Special Counsel—an UNPRECEDENTED action. In addition, Special Counsel subpoenaed all of President Trump’s PERSONAL phone records.”

Republican lawmakers have declared Operation Arctic Frost to be “worse than Watergate,” and have sought to prosecute Biden-era DOJ officials for their role in the investigations. Trump himself has called for the prosecution of those involved as well, calling investigators who monitored Republican lawmakers “crooked lowlifes.”

According to a report from the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, eight Senate Republicans had their communications monitored by the DOJ in connection with investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump was federally indicted for his own alleged role in trying to overturn the election, but would later see the case put on indefinite hold in the wake of his election victory in 2024.

“We can never again allow this kind of government weaponization in America,” Bondi wrote. “I submitted these new documents to our partners on Capitol Hill. I commend our team at the FBI for working diligently to expose this.”