Jack Smith spent two years trying to destroy Donald Trump – and someone at DOJ may have just made sure he pays for it.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stumbled onto a forgotten room packed with documents Smith's team left in burn bags.
What Blanche found in that room should be the reason for Jack Smith to be very worried right now.
Blanche Finds Jack Smith Burn Bags in DOJ Room Nobody Knew Existed
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast and described finding the room months ago at the Department of Justice.
It wasn't a secret room, he said – just one nobody bothered to visit.
"It's not fair to say it was a secret room, but it's a room that had a lot of material in it," Blanche said.
The material came directly from Jack Smith's investigation into Donald Trump.
Burn bags normally travel a specific path to destruction – classified documents get sealed, logged, and shredded under supervision.
These didn't make that trip.
"This one was in a place where I get the point that an honorable FBI agent might have left it there because it was not where it would normally be to be destroyed," Blanche said. "[We] kind of stumbled on it, but it looked almost intentional."
Hannity pushed him directly: did they find evidence in that room?
"Yes," Blanche said. "Yeah, we're looking at it."
Kash Patel Already Found the Crossfire Hurricane Mother Lode
Dan Bongino went on Hannity back in April with a similar account.
Bongino said his team pulled Crossfire Hurricane documents out of burn bags that never reached the shredder – and that whoever left them there did it deliberately.
"They saved it on purpose," Bongino said.
The roughly 100-page document shook him.
"I'm reading this document, and I'm like, 'I can't believe this happened in the United States,'" Bongino said. Bongino said Crossfire Hurricane was fraudulent from the moment it launched.
The Blanche discovery is the third significant document cache to surface since Kash Patel took over the FBI.
Patel found burn bags in a previously undisclosed SCIF at FBI headquarters earlier this year.
The Durham classified annex – the document spelling out how the Obama administration pushed a Russia collusion narrative officials knew was false – came from the same sweep.
Jack Smith Spied on Kash Patel While Building His Case Against Trump
Jack Smith wanted Kash Patel's phone records for over two years – and obtained them in secret, under court-authorized gag orders Patel wasn't allowed to know about.
Smith's team subpoenaed those records from Verizon covering the period from October 2020 through February 2023.
His team also drew up a list of 14 sitting members of Congress it hoped to subpoena.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley called it exactly what it was: a partisan targeting operation that swept up ordinary citizens and elected officials alike.
Both of Smith's cases against Trump collapsed – a federal judge threw out the documents case as unlawfully prosecuted, and the election case died the moment Trump won back the White House.
Multiple oversight probes are now examining Smith's conduct as special counsel, and the Senate Judiciary Committee held a formal hearing in March examining the investigation it labeled "Arctic Frost."
Smith built a machine designed to break the 45th President.
Someone at DOJ quietly saved the receipts – and Kash Patel has already promised the country will see everything in that room, whether through investigation, public trial, or direct disclosure to Congress.
Jack Smith is not under criminal investigation yet – but Patel has promised the country will see everything in that room.
Sources:
- Madison Colombo, "Todd Blanche reveals DOJ unearthed cache of Jack Smith documents inside forgotten room," Fox News, June 2, 2026.
- Ashley Oliver, "Jack Smith team secretly sought years of Kash Patel phone records, new docs show," Fox News, March 24, 2026.
- Katelynn Richardson, "Jack Smith Secretly Sought Nearly Two Years Of Kash Patel's Phone Records, Subpoenas Show," Daily Caller, March 24, 2026.
- Bob Hoge, "Jack Smith's Ghost Haunts DOJ As Burn-Bag Document Trove Surfaces," RedState, June 2, 2026.
- "FBI's top boss Kash Patel says bureau ran cover for Hillary but it all ends under Trump," Fox News.
