Retired FBI Agent Calls for Conspiracy Probe into Handling of Trump Investigations
A retired FBI agent and former Navy SEAL has urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue a broad conspiracy case against current and former federal agents and prosecutors, alleging they weaponized investigations against former President Donald Trump while shielding prominent Democrats from similar scrutiny.
Jonathan Gilliam made the remarks during an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television program. He pointed to recently released documents provided to Congress by Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel as evidence of systemic bias. According to Gilliam, these materials show FBI agents were repeatedly blocked from advancing corruption investigations into Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, despite what he described as substantial evidence of wrongdoing.
At the same time, Gilliam claimed, the same network of officials overruled career agents who questioned the probable cause for the 2022 search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. “It’s the same cast of characters every time,” he said. “We had a tremendous amount of evidence that they were trying to create evidence and falsify evidence to go after Trump. Now we see that they’re trying to stop investigations and get rid of real evidence for the purpose of protecting the Clintons.”
Gilliam argued that the pattern suggests a coordinated effort to influence elections. He speculated that the actions could support charges ranging from conspiracy to overthrow an election to sedition, and potentially even treason in extreme interpretations. “This is a group of people that continue to come up in one case of building cases against Trump, falsifying information,” he told the program. “But now it shows that the same people were conspiring to do a second overall crime, or second conspiracy to protect the political candidate that they agree with.”
He recommended the Justice Department approach the matter like a major organized crime investigation, treating the alleged participants as a criminal enterprise similar to a drug cartel or mafia family. “If this was a mafia case, and we had this clear-cut of an example of a group of people committing two or more crimes for the furtherance of their political group or their enterprise, this would be a slam dunk case for any U.S. Attorney,” Gilliam said. He emphasized that the individuals involved had worked together over years, rising through the ranks or being strategically placed to block one candidate and advance another.
Gilliam acknowledged that building such a case would be complex and resource-intensive. He called for a centralized “justice czar” to oversee real investigators focused on criminal charges against those accused of misusing law enforcement and intelligence powers. “We need real investigators under a justice czar to look at these people and criminally investigate and charge them,” he stated.
His comments align with remarks made the same week by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who told the program she believes there is sufficient evidence to pursue a conspiracy case alleging that federal agents and state prosecutors coordinated to violate the civil liberties of Trump and his supporters.
The discussion comes amid ongoing efforts by the current administration to review past high-profile investigations. Supporters view these moves as necessary accountability for perceived weaponization of government institutions. Critics caution that such probes risk becoming politicized retribution.
Separately, federal prosecutors recently announced charges against a retired high-level DEA official. Paul Campo, who served nearly 25 years and rose to deputy chief of the Office for Financial Operations before retiring in 2016, was arrested along with Robert Sensi. Authorities allege the pair were caught in an undercover sting in late 2024, offering to launder money and assist a Mexican cartel. The case highlights ongoing concerns about corruption within federal law enforcement ranks, though it is not directly linked to the political investigations discussed by Gilliam.
