Jack Smith led a witch hunt to put Donald Trump in prison.
His team was willing to cross any line to make that happen.
And a top Jack Smith prosecutor hid one ugly truth about Hillary Clinton from Donald Trump.
Remember when Special Counsel Jack Smith went after Trump's allies in Congress?
Smith didn't dream up that strategy alone.
Ray Hulser, a 34-year "career prosecutor" in the DOJ's Public Integrity Section, personally recommended Smith subpoena the toll records of Senators Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Cynthia Lummis, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Tim Scott, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, and Representative Mike Kelly.
Rep. Jim Jordan just called Hulser to testify about targeting Trump's Congressional supporters.
But newly released documents reveal Hulser's real specialty wasn't prosecuting corruption — it was protecting the Clintons from it.
Hulser killed the Clinton Foundation investigation before it started
In January 2016, FBI agents formally asked Hulser's Public Integrity Section to open a preliminary investigation into Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton and their Foundation.
On February 1, 2016, Hulser refused.
Years later, Durham's team asked Hulser about his decision to kill the investigation.
Hulser told them the FBI briefing "was poorly presented" and there was "insufficient predication" for the investigation.
In other words, the FBI didn't make their case well enough.
That's complete garbage.
Durham's investigators reviewed the actual evidence.
A confidential source reported "multiple funds transfers" involving "international bank accounts that were suspected of possibly facilitating bribery or gratuity violations."¹
Those transactions occurred between 2012 and 2014 and totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars.
When confronted about the amounts, Hulser dismissed them as "de minimis" — basically pocket change.²
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in suspected bribes flowing through international accounts?
For a prosecutor supposedly focused on "public integrity," Hulser had a funny definition of what that is.
But when it came to subpoenaing Republican Senators' phone records years later, suddenly no detail was too small.
Obama's DOJ and FBI crushed multiple Clinton investigations
The FBI's Little Rock and New York field offices had also opened Clinton Foundation investigations based on Suspicious Activity Reports — the kind of red flags banks file when they spot potential money laundering or fraud.
FBI agents in Little Rock pushed back hard when DOJ claimed their case was "just based on open source reporting and fishing through a book."³
They had real financial intelligence, real investigative work, real evidence.
Didn't matter.
In February 2016, FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe — whose wife had received nearly $675,000 in campaign donations from Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe — chaired a meeting about the Foundation investigations.⁴
McCabe's message was blunt: shut it down.
The Department "says there's nothing here," McCabe announced.
"Why are we even doing this?"
When agents objected, McCabe grudgingly let the investigations continue — but required his personal approval before agents could take any investigative steps.
Every subpoena, every interview, every basic investigative move needed sign-off from a guy whose wife took three-quarters of a million dollars from the Clintons' closest friend.
By July 2016 — 111 days before the presidential election — the Obama Administration dropped the hammer.
FBI agents were prohibited from subpoenaing additional records, conducting interviews, or sharing bank account information with other offices.⁵
The FBI "walled off" investigations into Clinton Foundation associates.
By October 2016, FBI headquarters ordered Little Rock to close the entire investigation.
McCabe only recused himself in November 2016 after the Wall Street Journal exposed the McAuliffe money — and only after agents leaked that McCabe had told them to "stand down" on the Clinton Foundation.
Hulser lied to Trump's investigators about Obama-era obstruction
After Trump won in 2016, U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland in Arkansas reopened the Clinton Foundation investigation.
Hiland asked Hulser a simple question: who made the decision to shut down the original case?
Hulser's response: "that never happened."⁶
Straight-up lied.
The Little Rock investigation had been closed by FBI headquarters.
But Hulser wasn't done covering for the Obama Administration.
He promised to provide Hiland with documentation, then sent over a heavily edited 2-page FBI timeline — carefully scrubbed to hide the truth.
In September 2018, the Office of Inspector General gave Hiland the real 6-page version.
That's when Hiland discovered what Hulser had done.
The edited version "had omitted ALL references to interference from DOJ and FBI leadership."⁷
Every single reference.
Scrubbed clean.
What Hulser sent Hiland hid the Obama Administration's systematic protection of Hillary Clinton and her Foundation from Trump's U.S. Attorney.
When Hiland met with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in November 2017, he complained about "what happened with the case originally being shut down by Main Justice."⁸
Rosenstein told Hiland to contact Hulser for information.
After that disaster of a meeting, Hiland reported back that things "did not go very well" and "Hulser was very dismissive of the investigation."
Rosenstein's number two, Rob Hur, gave Hiland extraordinary instructions: "exclude Public Integrity and Hulser from the Clinton Foundation Investigation going forward."⁹
The second-highest official at DOJ ordering a U.S. Attorney to completely cut out the Public Integrity Section from a major corruption investigation?
That tells you everything about how compromised Hulser had become.
Hulser dismissed hundreds of thousands in suspected Clinton bribes.
He lied to Trump officials about Obama-era obstruction.
He hid evidence of systematic interference from Congressional investigators.
Then he joined Jack Smith's team and recommended subpoenaing the phone records of ten Republican Senators and one Congressman who supported Trump.
That's not "public integrity."
That's a weaponized deep state operative with a 34-year resume of protecting Democrats and targeting Republicans.
Trump fired Hulser in February, and the media portrayed him as a dedicated public servant unfairly targeted for doing his job.
Hulser himself wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post: "I'm a career prosecutor. Trump fired me, but I know what I did for the U.S."
He claimed he spent more than 30 years prosecuting people "based on a simple formula: the facts and the law."¹⁰
"Many of those people admitted their guilt, some shook my hand, and one of them fired me," Hulser wrote — suggesting Trump was guilty and Hulser was pure.
The newly released documents expose that sanctimonious garbage for what it is.
These details only surfaced because Trump won re-election and installed Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
Unlike their predecessors, they're actually cooperating with Congressional oversight instead of stonewalling Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Jim Jordan.
Hulser's firing wasn't about revenge.
It was about draining the swamp of career bureaucrats who spent decades protecting Democrats, targeting Republicans, and calling it "public integrity."
The same formula, all right.
Just not the one Hulser claimed.
¹ Margot Cleveland, "Top Attorney For Special Counsel Jack Smith Previously Spiked Clinton Foundation Investigation," The Federalist, December 29, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
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