Jack Smith Seized Nearly 5,000 Checks Written By Trump Donors– thefederalist.com

Special Counsel Jack Smith seized nearly 5,000 personal checks written by donors to President Donald Trump, according to new whistleblower disclosures.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released the bombshell findings during a Tuesday hearing featuring testimony from Smith about his lawfare against Trump. The information was disclosed via legally protected whistleblower disclosures.

According to a committee press release, Smith and his team “acquired at least 4,782 checks from Americans who made mainly small-dollar donations to President Trump between September 2019 to August 2023.” Obtained via subpoenas, the checks disclose the donor’s bank account and routing numbers, signatures, and home addresses.

The subpoenas purportedly targeted Americans across all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to Grassley. Smith and his team targeted donations of varying amounts, with some of the released checks showing amounts as little as $5 to as much as $1,000.

“No matter what you say, there’s no legitimate basis for what you did. Especially since your staff killed an investigation into the Clinton campaign,” Grassley said during Tuesday’s hearing. “Donations to Republican groups wasn’t necessary to your investigation, which is proved out by the fact it wasn’t mentioned in your public report. Now, the Justice Department and FBI will forever possess thousands of people’s addresses, phone numbers, banks, bank account numbers, bank routing numbers and copies of their true signatures.”