Congress and DOJ/FBI

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel after receiving FBI records showing that the bureau’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2020 election conduct was initially labeled 'Hyperbolic Frost' and then manually renamed 'Arctic Frost.' Grassley argues the handwritten change undercuts former FBI Director James Comey’s 2017 assurances that case code names like 'Midyear Exam' for the Hillary Clinton email probe are randomly assigned, and he is demanding all records on how both the Trump and Clinton investigations were named. Sources cited in the piece say the 'Arctic Frost' title may have been chosen as a veiled reference to Trump, pointing to its use as the name of an orange tree variety amid long‑running 'orange man' mockery.