Jack Smith spent two years trying to put Donald Trump in prison.
Now the misconduct behind that prosecution is starting to come out.
Now the man Trump wants as attorney general just put a target on Jack Smith's back.
Grassley Proves Jack Smith Spied on 44 Members of Congress and Lied About It
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley had been sitting on something explosive.
Grassley released DOJ records confirming that former Special Counsel Smith's investigative team didn't just collect phone call logs from members of Congress – they read the actual content of private text messages sent by 44 sitting and former senators and representatives.
The list crosses party lines: Josh Hawley, Rand Paul, Grassley himself, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Tom Cotton – even Democrat Cory Booker.
But there's a problem for Smith that no amount of lawyering will fix.
Back in December 2025, Smith sat for a deposition under oath.
A congressional counsel asked him directly: "Did the records that you requested – the toll records from the members of Congress – include the content of text messages?"
Smith's answer: "No."
That's perjury under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 – and the Justice Department now has the transcript.
Grassley did not mince words. "Jack Smith's criminal investigation of President Trump was a runaway train that had no brakes," he said. His investigators, Grassley added, blew past constitutional guardrails even after receiving explicit warnings that congressional communications were in the files.
One detail deeper in the records makes the timeline impossible to explain away.
On August 21, 2023, National Archives counsel told senior Smith prosecutor Thomas Windom the files were ready.
By 12:45 p.m. – twenty-six minutes later – Windom had already downloaded the entire production without a filter team review, without constitutional guardrails, and without waiting for anyone's approval.
Willful conduct, not a paperwork error – and the records prove it.
Blanche Signals DOJ Is Open to Jack Smith Perjury Investigation
Todd Blanche sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his attorney general confirmation hearing.
Democrats spent their time attacking his record.
Republicans wanted to talk about Jack Smith.
Senator Josh Hawley – one of the 44 members whose texts Smith's team read – walked Blanche through the deposition transcript line by line.
He read Smith's answer into the record.
Then Hawley looked at Blanche and asked the question every conservative in America wanted answered.
"Have you thought about investigating Jack Smith for perjury?"
Blanche gave a straight answer.
"We take testimony in front of this body very seriously. Yes," Blanche said.
Hawley pushed further: "Good. I think he absolutely should be investigated. I hope that you prosecute him."
"Yes, Senator," Blanche replied.
Under the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, congressional communications are shielded from executive branch prosecution.
Smith's team had a filter process in place for exactly that reason – to screen out privileged legislative materials before investigators could touch them.
The DOJ's letter to Grassley and Johnson confirmed Smith's team sidestepped that process entirely, going straight to the files.
Knowingly making a false statement to Congress under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 carries up to five years in federal prison.
Smith built a two-year prosecution of a former president while reading the private texts of 44 members of the legislative branch – the very people with constitutional authority to oversee his operation.
Then he told Congress, under oath, that he hadn't done it.
Biden's DOJ handed Jack Smith unlimited investigative power and no accountability.
Grassley says Smith will face the Senate Judiciary Committee in the coming months.
Blanche just confirmed the DOJ is not looking away.
For the first time since Smith dropped his Trump cases and walked away, accountability has a name – and a date.
Sources:
- Chuck Grassley, "Jack Smith's Investigative Team Secretly Obtained Text Messages from 44 Members of Congress," Senate Judiciary Committee, July 14, 2026.
- "Biden Special Counsel's 'Runaway Train' Scooped Up Sensitive Lawmaker Info," Fox News, July 14, 2026.
- Bob Hoge, "'Runaway Train': Chuck Grassley Torches Jack Smith, Accuses Him of Obtaining Texts of Dozens of Lawmakers," RedState, July 14, 2026.
- "Todd Blanche Faces Senate Judiciary Committee in Confirmation Hearing," Fox News Live, July 15, 2026.
- Kaelan Deese, "Todd Blanche Hearing Turns to Jack Smith Bombshells," Washington Examiner, July 15, 2026.
