“Yes, we acquired financial information”: Jack Smith answers Sen. Grassley on donor records

Описание: At the Senate Judiciary Committee's Sept. 29, 2026 hearing, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked former special counsel Jack Smith whether his operation obtained possession of donor data, including financial information, "Yes or no?" Smith: "Yes, 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."

Grassley then said that, from protected disclosures to his office, Smith's team obtained at least 4,782 donor checks, many of them five to ten dollars, including checks from constituents of every committee member and 42 from Iowans. He said the Justice Department and the FBI will keep donors' addresses, phone numbers, bank account and routing numbers and signatures.

The record: the 4,782 figure and the description of the checks are Grassley's, as stated at the hearing and in his Sept. 29, 2026 release; we have not independently confirmed them. Smith's answer in this clip came before Grassley read the figure.

Sources: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing video and page, and Chairman Grassley's release, Sept. 29, 2026.

Source: Senate Judiciary Committee, Sept. 29, 2026, "Oversight of Jack Smith's Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters" (at 1:03:51).

The record: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing page, Sept. 29, 2026; Sen. Grassley's release on his questions to Jack Smith, Sept. 29, 2026.

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