10/23/2026 | Press release | Archived content
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined "The Scott Jennings Show" to discuss his ongoing oversight of the Biden Justice Department (DOJ) and former Special Counsel Jack Smith's Arctic Frost investigation, which mapped out the entire Republican political apparatus.
Over the last four years, Grassley has exposed the partisan Arctic Frost investigation for targeting and obtaining invasive information on President Trump, his top officials, members of Congress, journalists and over 400 conservative organizations and individuals. Most recently, Grassley revealed the Biden DOJ and Smith obtained personal information from at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters and supporters, including their names, dates of birth, addresses, employers and more. Over 1,000 Iowans had their personal information swept up.
Listen to the full interview HERE. Excerpts follow.
"Based on new findings my office received from patriotic whistleblowers, we now know that Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department obtained the personal information of 639,000 Republican donors, voters and supporters. And this even included 1,000 of my Iowa constituents. Smith collected names, birthdays, addresses, occupations, voter registration information and more.
"It was even this ridiculous: information [was collected] on the sale of Make America Great Again red hats, including the buyer's name and the shipping addresses. [Smith acquired] the names of Trump campaign personnel, potentially including volunteers.
"I think this tells you that you can't trust Democrats to be in power… can you imagine, you bought a MAGA hat, and Jack Smith thinks he's entitled to your personal information?"
On the Biden administration and Jack Smith's end goal for Arctic Frost:
"I think [the goal] was to take on the whole Republican organization and do what they could to destroy it or know as much about it so they could use the information any way they wanted to their benefit.
"They had cancelled checks from 4,700 Americans, and about 42 of those were my Iowa constituents… They were getting the telephone information from at least 44 members of Congress, and they also got information on several hundred different Republican organizations and conservative leaders.
"It was a fishing expedition that was supposed to deal with January 6th, but when [Jack Smith] was appointed special counsel only three days after President Trump announced his reelection, you can see it's tied to not only wanting to put Trump in prison so he could never run again, but they wanted to take on the whole Republican establishment."
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