Chuck Grassley

The Biden administration allegedly obtained the personal data of at least 639,000 Republican voters and donors as part of an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a new memo released on Wednesday. The Biden-era Department of Justice obtained information dating back to 2005 containing personal information such as names, dates of birth, addresses, political affiliation, occupation and place of employment, donation amounts, and more, the memo says. The information was collected by then-special counsel Jack Smith as part of his Arctic Frost probe, an effort to investigate President Donald Trump and efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election. Special counsel who obtained Sen. Mike Lee’s texts as part of Jan. 6 probe invited to testify before Senate “This update shows that Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive donor data — and voter data — beyond what could conceivably be necessary for Smith or his team to fulfill the special counsel’s mandate,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement. “The new findings further corroborate that Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus.” The trove of information also contained data on Trump campaign personnel, a catalogue of Trump campaign products, and sales information of red MAGA hats, including individual buyers, purchases, and shipping addresses, according to Grassley’s memo. Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, decried Smith’s actions as a “disgraceful weaponization of the justice system for a partisan witch hunt.” Lee is among a group of senators whose phone records were obtained by Smith as part of the Arctic Frost investigation. “We now see that Jack Smith’s politically motivated investigations under Joe Biden targeted not only President Trump, his family, staff, and members of Congress, but hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans across the country. A disgraceful weaponization of the justice system for a partisan witch hunt.” Mike Lee grills former special counsel Jack Smith over seizing his phone records in Jan. 6 investigation Grassley obtained the latest information after issuing a subpoena to the Justice Department last fall. Grassley opened the Judiciary Committee probe into Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation in the summer of 2022 while former President Joe Biden was still in office. The yearslong inquiry has scrutinized whether Smith legally obtained data, arguing the Biden official may have unfairly targeted the president and his Republican allies. Smith most recently appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in late September. During that hearing, Smith acknowledged that his team had subpoenaed information as part of the probe, calling it crucial to the investigation. “Yes,” Smith said during his Sept. 22 hearing. “We acquired financial information. As I sit here right now, I cannot recite to you every subpoena we