Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley says Jack Smith’s team and the Biden Justice Department swept up personal data on more than 639,000 Republican donors and voters, far beyond any legitimate probe.
A new memo obtained by Fox News Digital lays out the scale. Spreadsheets held names, home addresses, and other personal details on Republican campaign donors, supporters, and voters. The total ran past 639,000 people at minimum.
More than 148,000 of those rows were tagged as donors. Most gave small-dollar amounts. The haul did not stop at contribution lists. It reached individual buyers of red MAGA hats and other Trump merchandise, complete with shipping addresses for home delivery.
Grassley calls the collection invasive and irrelevant to the special counsel’s stated job. He says the records were shared with FBI agents. And he argues the pattern shows an effort to map the Republican Party itself.
According to Grassley’s update, the files went deep. Data fields included names, dates of birth, physical addresses, emails, party registration, occupation, place of employment, credit card information, donation amounts, and donor analysis.
Just the News reported the same core figures and added that the material spanned years from 2005 to 2021. It also covered Trump campaign personnel and volunteers alongside the merchandise sales records.
Grassley put it in plain terms in the memo.
"obtained spreadsheets containing Republican campaign donors, supporters, and detailed personal voter information in various formats, totaling over 639,000 individuals, at minimum,"
He continued:
"Out of those, over 148,000 rows are identified in the spreadsheets as donors,"
And:
"The donors generally contributed small-dollar amounts."
On the merchandise side, he flagged “individual purchasers and shipping addresses for home delivery.” The catalog of products ran to red hats, T-shirts, mugs, and door mats.
Grassley’s judgment was direct.
"This further illustrates the extensive scope of irrelevant and personally invasive records obtained by Smith which were shared with FBI agents."
The Biden Justice Department launched the Arctic Frost probe in 2022. Officials framed it as an inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. The work later moved under former special counsel Jack Smith.
Grassley has pressed the issue for more than a year, releasing whistleblower material along the way. An earlier release showed Smith’s team collected checks from nearly 5,000 Americans who donated to Trump and Trump-aligned Republican entities. The new memo expands that picture by orders of magnitude.
House and Senate Republicans have described a much wider net. The New York Post reported newly released FBI documents showing the probe touched more than 160 Republicans, including figures later serving in Trump roles. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland, deputy Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off in April 2022. The matter transferred to Smith that November.
Investigators worked across field offices. They sought phone metadata from eight Republican senators and one House member. More than 90 conservative groups, including Turning Point USA, appeared in the files. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan told Fox News host Sean Hannity the effort “was much broader, much more expansive, than we ever thought.”
Breitbart News reported FBI files showing Smith issued 197 subpoenas aimed at 34 individuals and 163 entities. Those demands sought information on more than 400 people and organizations tied to the Republican Party, again including Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorneys General Association.
Grassley publicly flagged the nearly 200 subpoenas targeting Republican organizations, officials, and donors. Jordan has demanded Smith sit for a deposition on what he calls politically motivated use of process against elected officials.
Separate filings described orders, signed by Judge James Boasberg, that let investigators obtain lawmakers’ cell data while blocking companies such as AT&T from tipping off the targets. FBI Director Kash Patel later described hidden files on the tracking of sitting lawmakers’ communications and said agents involved were dismissed.
Smith testified last month before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building. Grassley pressed him for a yes-or-no answer on whether the investigation gathered data on donors. Smith answered, “Yes.”
He then explained the subpoenas in broader terms.
"We acquired financial information. As I sit here right now, I cannot recite to you every subpoena we issued. I can tell you why we issued subpoenas. And it was to conduct a criminal investigation of one of the most serious crimes that's ever happened in our nation's history. I had a duty to collect facts."
Fox News Digital reached out to Smith’s newly launched law firm for comment on the memo. No response appears in the available reporting.
Grassley framed the latest update as proof the collection ran past any reasonable mandate.
"This update shows that Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive donor data, and voter data, beyond what could conceivably be necessary for him or his team to fulfill the special counsel office’s mandate,"
He went further:
"This update further corroborates that Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus,"
Then he put the challenge to the other side of the aisle.
"I again call on my Democratic colleagues to join my oversight work instead of trying to defend Smith and sweep his abuse of authority under the rug."
Ordinary small-dollar donors and people who ordered a hat or a mug did not run the 2020 election fight. Their names, addresses, credit cards, and shipping records still landed in government spreadsheets and moved to FBI agents. That is the record Grassley has now put on the table. Washington’s instinct to protect the prosecutors who built it tells voters everything they need to know about who the rules actually protect.
