Jack Smith's prosecution of Donald Trump was supposed to be independent.
Turns out that was a lie.
And Jack Smith took one secret meeting that confirmed Trump's worst fear.
FBI Created "Sensitive" Case File One Day After Secret Meeting
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith met with then-FBI Director Christopher Wray on May 24, 2023 — months after Smith launched his investigation into Donald Trump over January 6 and the 2020 election.
One day later, the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division created a "significant case notification" document about Smith's investigation, codenamed "Arctic Frost."¹
The timing wasn't coincidental.
An FBI "significant case notification" alerts senior leadership and FBI field offices about cases of high public interest.
This particular notification labeled Smith's Trump investigation as a "sensitive investigative matter."
That designation gave Smith's probe special handling inside the bureau — the kind of treatment reserved for cases where the FBI brass wants hands-on involvement.
Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson are investigating Smith's probe as part of their congressional oversight.
FBI Director Kash Patel recently shared documents with the Senate Judiciary Committee revealing the secret meeting between Smith and Wray.
The documents raise obvious questions about coordination between a supposedly independent Special Counsel and the FBI Director he claimed to operate separately from.
Grassley Catches Smith In A Lie
Back in October, Grassley sent Smith a letter asking point-blank whether he'd met with Wray, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, or then-FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate as part of his investigation.²
Smith replied to Grassley.
But he refused to answer the question about those meetings.
"Jack Smith claims he wants to tell his story to Congress, but when I asked him point-blank if he ever met with Garland, Monaco, or Wray as part of his investigation, he refused to answer," Grassley told Fox News Digital.
Now documents prove Smith did meet with Wray — exactly what Smith wouldn't confirm or deny to Congress under direct questioning from a U.S. Senator.
"Either Smith has a bad memory, or he's simply not willing to come clean about his actions," Grassley told Fox News Digital.
Smith spent months claiming his investigation was independent and free from political interference.
Meeting with the FBI Director and then having the bureau create a special "sensitive" case file the next day blows that story to pieces.
"If Smith really wanted the American people to hear the truth, he'd be cooperating with my straightforward congressional oversight requests instead of making excuses," Grassley said.
Arctic Frost Gave Smith Power To Spy On Republican Senators
The Arctic Frost investigation wasn't just another case.
Smith used it to track the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican senators during his January 6 probe.
That's right — a Special Counsel appointed by a Democrat Attorney General coordinated with the FBI Director to spy on sitting members of Congress from the opposition party.
The senators targeted included some of Trump's strongest defenders in the Senate.
Smith subpoenaed their phone records to see who they were talking to and when.
This is the kind of surveillance power normally reserved for foreign intelligence operations or organized crime investigations.
Smith turned it on Republican senators exercising their constitutional duties.
Smith Wants Public Testimony To Control The Narrative
In October, Smith requested to testify before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees — but only in open, public hearings.³
Smith's attorneys claimed he wanted to address "mischaracterizations" of his investigations.
That's rich coming from someone who just got caught meeting secretly with the FBI Director and then refusing to tell Congress about it.
Open hearings give Smith exactly what he wants: five-minute questioning rounds where Democrats can run interference and he can dodge real accountability with prepared talking points.
What Smith fears is a closed-door deposition under oath where senators can grill him for hours about every secret meeting, every coordination with DOJ leadership, every decision to spy on Republican senators.
The pattern here is crystal clear.
Smith coordinated with FBI leadership while claiming independence, lied to Congress about those meetings by refusing to answer, and now wants to testify only in a format that protects him from serious questioning.
Trump spent years warning that the Deep State was coordinating to destroy him.
Democrats and their media allies called him paranoid.
Documents proving Smith met with Wray right before the FBI created a special "sensitive" case file show Trump was right all along.
The weaponization wasn't a conspiracy theory — it was a fact.
And Jack Smith's refusal to come clean proves they're still trying to hide just how deep the corruption went.
¹ Brooke Singman, "Jack Smith meeting with then-FBI Director Wray recorded as 'significant case notification' in J6 probe," Fox News, November 13, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
