by Jerry Dunleavy
Then-special counsel Jack Smith issued nearly 200 subpoenas in his wide-ranging Arctic Frost-related case against President Donald Trump related to the 2020 election and the events of Jan. 6, 2021, seeking records on more than 400 Republican Party figures and groups, according to records presented Wednesday by the top Senate investigator.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made public The GOP senator’s office said Wednesday that Smith and his Biden-era DOJ team issued 197 subpoenas “as part of a mass election effort against President Trump.” Smith’s case began with the FBI – then headed by former FBI Director Chris Wray – under management codename “Arctic Frost”.
The documents released by Grassley provide even more up-to-date information about the wide-ranging investigation into Trump World that was initiated by the FBI and later taken over by Smith under the leadership of then-Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee does previously disclosed on Tuesday that more than 160 Republicans — including many with close ties to Trump — were under possible investigation as part of the Arctic Frost investigation.
Grassley’s office he said the whistleblower subpoenas were sent to 34 individuals and 163 companies and that the subpoenas “demanded depositions, communications and records relating to at least 430 named Republican individuals and entities.”
The records Smith subpoenaed included “communications with media companies such as CBS, Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, Sinclair and others,” Grassley’s office said, as well as “communications with White House advisers” such as Stephen Miller, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, senior adviser Dan Scavino, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and others.
The 197 callMore than 1,700 pages long, it also included “statistical data and analysis on donors and fundraising activities” and “broad financial data on conservative individuals and entities,” the Iowa Republican’s office said.
Moreover, the subpoenas also covered communications with “any member, employee, or agent of the legislative branch of the U.S. government.”
The call target list collected by Grassley employees shows Smith requesting information from financial institutions, conservative groups, Republican organizations and entities allied with Trump.
“The Arctic freeze was a tool by which partisan FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus. Contrary to what Smith has said publicly, this was clearly a fishing expedition,” Grassley said during Wednesday’s hearing press conferencemaintaining that “if this happened to Democrats, they would be as righteously outraged as we are.”
Earlier this week, the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, D-Ohio he said that “45 people,” including former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, Republican Scott Perry, R-Pa., former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, former Trump lawyer John Eastman and former Republican Mark Meadows, R-N.C., “were potentially under investigation.”
GOP-led commission he argued that “another 111 people,” including Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, former Trump Justice Department official Jeff Rosen and current Justice Department weapons czar Ed Martin, “were also potentially under investigation.”
The Jordan-led committee as well publicly released on Tuesday, December 2022 letters from leaders of the Jan. 6 congressional select committee — led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Ga. and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. — telling Smith that they “want to share the evidence we have collected with the Department of Justice.” Cheney then endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in her unsuccessful race against Trump last year.
Recently declassified apparitions associated with Arctic frost chronicle attack against Trump and the MAGA world in 2022 as criminal investigations – which soon led to criminal charges – gained momentum as Trump once again leaned towards running for president.
New evidence can be seen that Wray, Garland and then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco signed an agreement to launch an Arctic Frost investigation into Trump in connection with the Capitol riot.
Discovered emails too show that Biden’s White House counsel’s office, in cooperation with an anti-Trump FBI agent, turned over phones belonging to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Arctic frost too targeted According to documents published earlier this year, dozens of GOP officials and organizations.
Recent revelation the fact that the FBI tapped phone records of Republican members of Congress during the Jan. 6 investigation also forces Wray and Smith to exercise greater scrutiny.
The reports also shed delicate on former FBI agent Timothy Thibault, who Republicans say showed extreme conduct anti-Trump sentimentshowed A readiness tried to take aim at Trump early in his first term ponderous walk or blocking the FBI investigation into Hunter Biden, and in early 2022 helped spark The Arctic Frost investigation – later led by Smith – led to criminal charges against Trump in connection with the Capitol riot.
Blacksmith accused In August 2023, Trump referred to the then-former president’s alleged actions in connection with the 2020 election, including: replacing fees in August 2024, Smith maintained that Trump “used unlawful means to subvert legal votes and steal election results.”
The judge asked Chutkan released related to the January 6 case against Trump in November 2024 after Trump’s victory, pointing to the Office of General Counsel’s position that the incumbent president it could not be prosecuted by its own Department of Justice.
Smith released his report in connection with his anti-Trump efforts related to January 6 in January of this year, weeks before Trump’s second inauguration. The special counsel’s report concluded that “substantial evidence demonstrates that Trump then launched an unprecedented criminal attempt to overturn the lawful election results in order to maintain power.”
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Jerry Dunleavy is a reporter for Just the News.
