releases: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/09/29/2026/icymi-grassley-on-newsmax-jack-smith-was-a-tool-of-the-biden-administration
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| 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 –Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined “The Record with Greta Van Susteren” on Newsmax to discuss the committee’s oversight hearing on Arctic Frost and Jack Smith’s abuse of authority. “Jack Smith was trying to tell Congress that their investigation was solely related to what happened on January 6th. But we’ve proved that it goes way beyond that. This was an effort to cripple the Republican party with subpoenas, violating people's privacy,” Grassley said. Grassley highlighted the sweeping nature of Smith’s investigation of President Trump and the Republican party, which collected thousands of Americans’ 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. Watch the full interview HERE. Excerpts follow. VIDEO On new information released during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: “I 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. “They even got the bank records of about 4,700 Americans, of which 42 of them were from Iowa – those were subpoenaed. They also subpoenaed at least a couple dozen media organizations and individuals. “This 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’ve 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.” On Jack Smith and the Biden administration’s weaponization of the Department of Justice: “[There was] a double standard of enforcement – 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.” | 1 | 2026-09-30T10:57:52Z | 2026-09-30T10:59:04Z |