Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that the Biden administration turned over President Donald Trump’s government phone to Jack Smith as he snooped through the president’s phone records as part of his wide-reaching investigation into the 2020 presidential election.

Bondi made the announcement on X, confirming previous revelations from Senate Republicans that the FBI seized Trump’s government-issued phone as part of Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation. That investigation, supposedly into Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, targeted hundreds of Republicans in Congress and Trump allies outside of Capitol Hill.

“During the Arctic Frost Investigation, we found that Special Counsel seized President Trump’s government-issued phone. This means the Biden Administration turned over President Trump’s phone to Special Counsel—an UNPRECEDENTED action,” Bondi said. “In addition, Special Counsel subpoenaed all of President Trump’s PERSONAL phone records.”

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

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt commented more on the revelation during Tuesday’s press briefing.

“I think this is just further evidence of the egregious overreach and weaponization of government that took place under the previous White House against then former president and now President Donald J. Trump. It was a clear effort by the Biden White House and the Biden DOJ to go after the president and this is just further evidence of that.”

.@PressSec on the Biden White House turning over President Trump’s phone records to Jack Smith as part of Arctic Frost:

“I think this is just further evidence of the egregious overreach and weaponization of government that took place under the previous White House against… https://t.co/OEZmOCXtJj pic.twitter.com/ozajWcNjEn

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 4, 2025

According to a March 2025 letter from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), the FBI first began the process of seizing Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence’s phones in April 2022 before they gained access to them and entered them as evidence in May 2022.

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), one of the GOP senators who was targeted in the probe, said the news should enrage every American.

“This information should outrage every American,” she said. “This is one of the worst examples of government weaponization in American history.”

Blackburn, alongside Sens. Cynthia Lummis (WY), Ron Johnson (WI), Tommy Tuberville (AL), Dan Sullivan (AK), Josh Hawley (MO), Bill Hagerty (TN), Lindsey Graham (SC), and Rep. Mike Kelly (PA), all had their phone metadata analyzed by the FBI as part of Arctic Frost.

Former President George W. Bush on Tuesday marked the passing of Dick Cheney, saying in a statement that the former vice president was “among the finest public servants of his generation.”

Cheney served under Bush for eight years, from 2001 to 2009, as vice president of the United States. Bush described his Oval Office partner as “a calm and steady presence in the White House amid great national challenges.”

Among the major tests of Bush’s tenure, arguably the most challenging was the 9/11 terror attack on the Twin Towers in New York City and launching the War on Terror in its aftermath.

“I counted on him for his honest, forthright counsel, and he never failed to give his best. He held to his convictions and prioritized the freedom and security of the American people. For those two terms in office and throughout his remarkable career, Dick Cheney’s service always reflected credit on the country he loved,” said Bush.

Before serving as Bush’s vice president, Cheney served in the administration of Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, as Secretary of Defense.

Bush also spoke of his closeness to Cheney’s family, adding that “Laura and I have shared our deepest sympathies with Vice President Cheney’s wife Lynne and their daughters and granddaughters of whom he was so deeply proud.”

Statement by President George W. Bush on Vice President Dick Cheney:

The death of Richard B. Cheney is a loss to the nation and a sorrow to his friends. Laura and I will remember Dick Cheney for the decent, honorable man that he was. History will remember him as among the finest… pic.twitter.com/fmx7hI4eFD

— George W. Bush Presidential Center (@TheBushCenter) November 4, 2025

Cheney died on Monday night at his home at the age of 84. He died due to complications from pneumonia and cardiovascular disease.

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“For decades, Dick Cheney served our nation, including as White House Chief of Staff, Wyoming’s Congressman, Secretary of Defense, and Vice President of the United States,” the Cheney family said in a statement. “Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing. We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man.”