ICYMI: Grassley Joins Newsmax to Discuss His Arctic Frost Oversight and the Democrats’ Government Shutdown

ICYMI: Grassley Joins Newsmax to Discuss His Arctic Frost Oversight and the Democrats' Government Shutdown

WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined "The Briefing" with Ed Henry on Newsmax to discuss his release of 197 subpoenas former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team issued as part of the indiscriminate "Arctic Frost" election case against President Donald Trump. Henry and Newsmax were among Smith's targets.

In emails released by Grassley earlier this year, one of Jack Smith's weaponized prosecutors, J.P. Cooney, said, "Can we do some work to nail down Trump's role in this, perhaps with some process on Ed Henry's LLC?" Whistleblower records recently provided to Grassley then showed Smith sought records from Apple relating to Trump, Henry and the January 6 prison choir. Smith later obtained a court order to hide the subpoena's existence.

Video and excerpts of Grassley's remarks follow:

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On the latest in Grassley's Arctic Frost investigation:

"Well, of course, until now, we thought they were just after - to ruin President Trump and put Trump in prison and ruin him financially. Now, we know it was a fishing expedition to go after Republican organizations, people connected to Republicans [and] people that are conservative. Even Charlie Kirk's organization, TPUSA, was involved with this.

"So, it was very much a fishing expedition. And I think that they were spreading a wide net because they were looking for anything they could to hook on Trump, [to] put Trump in prison, keep him from running for president, and things of that nature.

"But Jack [Smith] subpoenaed all this stuff, and thank God the whistleblowers told us about it, gave us the documents, and that's why your name came out."

On what comes next for Congress' Arctic Frost oversight:

"...[T]he information that Pam Bondi put out about President Trump's telephone and his records, I released that back in March based upon information I got from whistleblowers.

"...[W]e have to get more documents from the bowels of the Department of Justice. And in those bowels of the Department of Justice are a lot of people that don't want this information out because they're probably very, very close to the liberal organizations in this town.

"But, when we get these documents, we're going to have hearings and get the information out. If there's prosecution, that's obviously got to come from the executive branch of government, not from [Congress]. But I hope to expose enough information so that that would happen."

On FBI documents and the Comey case:

"Well, a lot of the documents we've gotten from the FBI have come from that same burn room that you had in your question, and I think the documents that have been available today give more evidence to the fact that Comey lied to the Congress of the United States. And I think that that's very important."

On ending Democrats' government shutdown:

"Well, for the first time this week, there's some talk about reaching an end to it. It isn't reached yet, but we were told to plan to be in session this weekend, if we can actually get it done this week.

"If it doesn't, it's going to carry over, and I don't know how long could go on. But this is the first best news we had that it could end. And besides the air traffic controllers and shut down airspace, there's 42 million Americans that are on food stamps that can't get food stamps.

And people are going to the checkout counter, finding out that there isn't any money in their debit card from the food stamps, and they leave crying, in sobs."

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