‘Runaway Train’: Chuck Grassley Torches Jack Smith, Accuses Him of Obtaining Texts of Dozens of Lawmakers
With each new revelation about former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who apparently would do anything to bring down Trump with his classified documents and election interference cases, the sordid tale just gets dirtier and dirtier.
He was accused in the fall of 2025 of violating the rights of lawmakers by secretly subpoenaing their phone records, and earlier in July, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) alleged that Smith and his team violated classified document handling procedures — even as they were investigating Trump for exactly that crime.
Grassley had more damning info to drop Tuesday: Smith was allegedly reading lawmakers’ emails.
The Democrats are constantly prattling on about how the Trump administration has turned the Department of Justice into a political weapon, but as the saying goes, “pot, meet kettle.” More and more evidence keeps piling up that former President Joe Biden and his attack dog Attorney General Merrick Garland regarded the DOJ as their own “get Trump by any means possible” play toy:
I received records frm DOJ confirming Jack Smith’s investigative team reviewed the contents of text msgs sent by 44 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Im 1 of the 44
Im alerting my colleagues who were impacted and will release the records w Sen Johnson so American ppl can see the evidence
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 14, 2026
I would say, “unbelievable!” At this point, however, I’m sure someone would fairly retort, “Actually, it’s very believable.”
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Grassley released a statement in conjunction with Senate Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) accusing the tainted prosecutor of bypassing the DOJ’s own safeguards in their quixotic quest:
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigative team obtained and reviewed text messages from 44 Members of Congress as part of the Biden Department of Justice’s (DOJ) criminal investigation into President Trump. Evidence shows the investigators bypassed a required Filter Team review process, violating investigative protocols and potentially infringing on constitutional guardrails.
The bombshell discovery comes in new records released today by… [Grassley and Johnson] as part of their ongoing Arctic Frost oversight. Grassley and Johnson requested the records from DOJ after receiving legally protected whistleblower disclosures.
“Jack Smith’s criminal investigation of President Trump was a runaway train that had no brakes,” they wrote.
As you might imagine, those spied on, a group which allegedly includes a handful of Democrats as well as numerous Republicans, were pretty ticked off by the news. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) noted that the new information clashes with Smith’s closed-door testimony under oath to Congress in December ‘25:
December 2025: Jack Smith swore under oath that he didn’t spy on text messages belonging to members of Congress.
Today: New evidence confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress, myself included.
This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned… pic.twitter.com/3eqwiylLXI
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 14, 2026
December 2025: Jack Smith swore under oath that he didn’t spy on text messages belonging to members of Congress.
Today: New evidence confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress, myself included.
This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned about.
Missouri GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt thinks Smith could be in some serious hot water:
Did Jack Smith mislead Congress?
He told the House he didn’t access the contents of members of Congress’s text messages.
But new records show he accessed the contents of 44 members of Congress’s text messages.
We need a full investigation. https://t.co/NuhUj77XAj pic.twitter.com/e3XhPpjukR
— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) July 14, 2026
The longer that Joe Biden is mercifully away from the Oval Office, the more apparent the destruction his administration brought becomes. From the tens of millions of illegal aliens he ushered over our borders, to his attempts to kneecap our energy supplies, to his radical gender agenda, and, as we keep learning, to his apparent willingness to look the other way regarding corruption in the DOJ, it’s all a stark reminder of what we’ll see again if Democrats take power.
For Smith, his reputation just keeps slipping further down the drain.
Here is the full list according to the statement:
1. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
2. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
3. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas)
4. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
5. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
6. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah)
7. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
8. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
9. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
10. Senator David Perdue (R-Ga.)
11. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
12. Senator Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)
13. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
14. Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
15. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
16. Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
17. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine)
18. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
19. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
20. Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
21. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
22. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)
23. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
24. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
25. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)
26. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)
27. Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.)
28. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.)
29. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)
30. Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.)
31. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)
32. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)
33. Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.)
34. Rep. Joshua Gottheimer (D-N.J.)
35. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.)
36. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.)
37. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.)
38. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.)
39. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)
40. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.)
41. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.)
42. Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho)
43. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.)
44. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)
Editor’s Note: We should be thrilled each and every day that Joe Biden is back home on the beach in Delaware and Kamala is wandering around somewhere in California.
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