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WASHINGTON — The Biden Justice Department seized President Trump’s official cellphone from his first term and issued a subpoena for his personal call logs, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Tuesday.

Bondi said the apparently unprecedented action was part of the Arctic Frost investigation of the steps by Trump and his allies to challenge his loss in the 2020 election.

“During the Arctic Frost Investigation, we found that Special Counsel [Jack Smith] seized President Trump’s government-issued phone,” Bondi revealed in an X post.


  Joe Biden’s Justice Department seized Trump’s official cellphone from his first term and subpoenaed his personal call logs, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Tuesday. Bloomberg via Getty Images Joe Biden’s Justice Department seized Trump’s official cellphone from his first term and subpoenaed his personal call logs, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Tuesday. Bloomberg via Getty Images

“This means the Biden Administration turned over President Trump’s phone to Special Counsel — an UNPRECEDENTED action.”

“In addition,” she added, “Special Counsel subpoenaed all of President Trump’s PERSONAL phone records. We can never again allow this kind of government weaponization in America.”

Bondi did not say which phone company was subpoenaed for Trump’s personal call logs or whether the company complied or challenged the subpoena.


  The Biden admin “turned over President Trump’s phone to Special Counsel,” according to Bondi. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Biden admin “turned over President Trump’s phone to Special Counsel,” according to Bondi. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Smith was prosecuting Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election results before the Republican won a second term last November. 

In a separate case, Smith also indicted Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

Trump called the cases, along with state prosecutions in New York for business fraud and Georgia on election-related counts, “lawfare” designed to derail his comeback campaign.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the intercepts were “further evidence of the egregious overreach and weaponization of government that took place under the previous White House.”

“It was a clear effort by the Biden White House and the Biden DOJ to go after the president,” Leavitt said when asked by The Post about Bondi’s claims.

The Arctic Frost investigation is an emerging focus for Republicans after the revelation last month that eight Republican senators and one GOP representative had their call logs seized as part of the probe.


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Smith ultimately charged Trump — but not any Republican lawmakers — accusing the once and future commander in chief of four felony counts in an August 2023 indictment, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding.

The case was dismissed last November after Trump won a second non-consecutive term.

The call records apparently were taken to analyze Trump’s actions between the November 2020 election and the Jan, 6, 2021, Capitol riot that briefly disrupted certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. 

Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee had their records seized, as did Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.).

Earlier Tuesday, Republican members of Congress revealed that newly subpoenaed documents from phone companies indicated a ninth Republican senator, Rick Scott of Florida, had his phone records taken as well.

“This is way bigger than Watergate,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said at a Tuesday morning press conference with Scott and Johnson, the latter of whom warned that additional members of Congress may have been surveilled.

“The subpoenas we are getting right now are just phone numbers. I call Rick Scott a fair amount, so I recognized his phone number,” Johnson explained to reporters. 

“Right now we’re trying to track down the phone numbers of the additional subpoenas we received yesterday — so stay tuned, there will be more announcements made.”

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