Investigation into 2020 Election Data
millions of Americans bought MAGA hats and Trump merchandise
ahead of the 2020 election. And if you were one of them,
former Special Counsel Jack Smith, under Joe Biden, former
president, may have scooped up your personal
information.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley alleges that the Biden
Justice Department obtained data from nearly 640,000
Republican supporters and everyday voters.
Grassley's memo says Smith got ahold of their names, home
addresses, employment history, credit card information.
This was all part of Operation Arctic Frost,
Jack Smith's investigation into the 2020 election and alleged interference.
Chairman Grassley is asking Smith about obtaining all this data
at hearing. It happened last month. Let's watch.
Did your special counsel obtain, uh, special
counsel operation obtain possession of donor
data, including financial information?
Yes or no?
Our investigation, uh, was focused on, uh,
investigating, uh, matters under my mandate,
including whether
any person
or entity violated the law with attempts to block the
peaceful transfer of power.
Let me, uh-
Uh-
Let me ask the question again. Did your special counsel
operation obtain possession of donor
data to include financial information? Yes or no?
Yes, we acquired financial information.
He has to answer yes, 'cause you can see the data from Chuck
Grassley's perspe- uh,
perspective. We may not be able to all see it, but
that committee could.
Um, Paul Moreno, I wish we had known then a month ago
that we should've been
asking, "Why did you pick on people w- who were buying MAGA hats?"
Yeah. I mean, look, one of the things that's right in the
Fourth Amendment is that
warrants have to be, and subpoenas are a form of that, right, in, under-
Mm-hmm
... our Constitution. They have to be narrow
and specifically tailored.
Now understand something. Because he was operating as a
US attorney, he didn't even need a judge to sign off on
these things.
These were subpoenas he was able and empowered to send out himself,
and he, uh, reportedly sent out over 200
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