When you launch a full-throated attack on a United States president in the middle of his re-election bid, then you indict him and try to throw him in jail… you’d better be prepared for the consequences that could follow.
This is especially true when you allegedly use the federal government to illegally spy on him and his allies.
First, let’s go back to 2022 and set the stage. Back to when the FBI, under former director Christopher Ray, launched “Operation Arctic Frost.” This investigation into “January 6th” served as the pretext for special counsel Jack Smith’s federal indictment of Trump on so-called “election interference” charges.
As we know, that effort failed spectacularly, but this month, new testimony has brought to light the utter corruption involved in this investigation. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley released a whistleblower document showing that Jack Smith—in conjunction with the FBI—secretly obtained the private phone records of nine Republican lawmakers in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The revelation of this covert surveillance follows documentation earlier this year, which showed that Donald Trump himself and former Vice President Mike Pence also had their phone records secretly collected by the Biden White House special counsel’s office—records which were then given over to the FBI.
The bad actions didn’t stop there. In September, we learned that the FBI also spied on 92 conservative individuals and organizations as part of “Arctic Frost,” including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.
In response to the bombshell, President Trump posted to Truth Social, calling Jack Smith “a sleazag who finally had his hand caught in the cookie jar.”
Understandably, Jack Smith is now facing calls for arrest.
We’re talking about President Biden’s staff spying on his political enemy, then-private citizen Donald Trump, and 92 other private citizens and organizations. These were efforts to directly help a federal prosecutor establish a case to throw a former President in prison. Senator Grassley called the scandal “bigger than Watergate”—and the shoe certainly fits.
Lesson learned: You can be sure that your sin will find you out (Numbers 32:23).
