{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/09/29/2026/icymi-grassley-on-newsmax-jack-smith-was-a-tool-of-the-biden-administration", "ICYMI: Grassley on Newsmax: Jack Smith Was a Tool of the Biden Administration", "2026-09-29", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined \u201cThe Record with Greta Van Susteren\u201d on Newsmax to discuss the committee\u2019s oversight hearing on Arctic Frost and Jack Smith\u2019s abuse of authority.\n\n\u201cJack Smith was trying to tell Congress that their investigation was solely related to what happened on January 6th. But we\u2019ve proved that it goes way beyond that. This was an effort to cripple the Republican party with subpoenas, violating people's privacy,\u201d Grassley said.\n\nGrassley highlighted the sweeping nature of Smith\u2019s investigation of President Trump and the Republican party, which collected thousands of Americans\u2019 personal banking information, nearly 50 journalists' communications with government sources, records from at least 430 Republican individuals and entities and the text messages of 44 members of Congress.\n\nWatch the full interview HERE. Excerpts follow.\n\nVIDEO\n\nOn new information released during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:\n\n\u201cI think that we learned through the thousands of pages that I've released to the public that Jack Smith was a tool of the Biden administration to put Trump in prison. [Trump] was the only one indicted, but the records that we [made] public today, and a few days ago, show that he swept at least 400 Republican organizations into his investigation, and 44 members of Congress by subpoenaing their phone records. We also showed that [Smith] violated the constitutional right that protects Congress... the Speech and Debate Clause, they ignored that.\n\n\u201cThey even got the bank records of about 4,700 Americans, of which 42 of them were from Iowa \u2013 those were subpoenaed. They also subpoenaed at least a couple dozen media organizations and individuals.\n\n\u201cThis was very sweeping. Jack Smith was trying to tell us that their investigation was solely related to what [happened] on January 6th, when the Capitol was broken into. But we\u2019ve prove[n] that it goes way, way beyond that. [It was] an effort to really cripple the Republican organization with all of the subpoenas that they gave, violating people's privacy.\u201d\n\nOn Jack Smith and the Biden administration\u2019s weaponization of the Department of Justice:\n\n\u201c[There was] a double standard of enforcement \u2013 one thing for Democrats and another thing for Republicans. In addition, as I said in my opening statement today, they helped Hillary Clinton get rid of her emails and things of that nature, and they go after Trump. This process against Trump was opened up just three days after he announced he was going to run for president again. So, you see the political connections and the effort to destroy Trump so that he could never run for president again.\u201d", 1, "2026-09-30T10:57:52Z", "2026-09-30T10:59:04Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/09/29/2026/icymi-grassley-on-newsmax-jack-smith-was-a-tool-of-the-biden-administration"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8817762136459351, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}