Theyre not coming after me, theyre coming after you." Donald Trump, August 2024.
For millions of conservatives, that warning has long felt more like prophecy than rhetoric, and the latest revelations about federal snooping on ordinary Trump supporters only deepen that concern. According to RedState, documents now emerging from Special Counsel Jack Smiths office suggest that during Joe Bidens presidency, the Department of Justice treated the simple act of buying a Make America Great Again hat or a Trump-branded coffee mug as grounds to sweep up Americans personal data and quietly file it away.
Those who live behind the blue curtain have grown accustomed to the idea that a red hat can draw hostile stares from unhinged progressives, but few imagined that a routine online purchase might land them on a government spreadsheet. In deep-blue states run by self-described socialists, it is not paranoia to wonder whether the American flag on your front porch or a Trump sticker on your truck has already been duly noted by some bureaucrat with a grudge.
Think Im being paranoid? the question now sounds less rhetorical and more like a grim acknowledgment of reality. It turns out that if you bought Make America Great Again paraphernalia while Biden haunted the White House, your name may have been swept into a database assembled by what critics describe as the depraved team of former Special Counsel Jack Smith.
As RedStates Teri Christoph reported, Smiths so?called Arctic Frost probe Hoovered up the personal information of well over half a million Republicans. In other words, simply declaring your love for America and support for Donald Trump was apparently enough for federal investigators to decide they needed to know who you are, where you live, andif they could manage iteverything else about you.
Senate Oversight Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R?IA) laid out the disturbing details in a letter sent Wednesday to Judiciary Committee Republicans and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D?IL). The documents also show that Jack Smiths SCO and Bidens Justice Department obtained information on sales of red MAGA hats, including individual buyers, their purchases and their shipping addresses for home delivery, Grassley wrote, adding, This is in addition to collecting a catalogue of Trump campaign products including these red hats, t-shirts, mugs, and door mats. This further illustrates the extensive scope of irrelevant and personally invasive records obtained by Smith which were shared with FBI agents.
Grassley also revealed that Smiths team circulated several attachments: Trump Save America Merchandise, Trump MAGA Hat Orders, and a Trump Victory Call Sheet containing donor and voter data stretching back to 2005. In a separate statement highlighting his findings, Grassley did not mince words: Thru my oversight Ive uncovered Jack Smith & the Biden DOJ targeted Americans for the simple act of buying a MAGA hat Jack Smith had an enemies list and at least 639,000 innocent Americans were on it INDEFENSIBLE.
For ordinary citizens, the idea that a doormat or a coffee mug could put them on the radar of the nations most powerful law enforcement agency is chilling. Doesnt that sound like were living in a different country than we thought? the author asks, likening these tactics to those of a Communist Dictator and suggesting that maybe the former tyrannical regimes we once condemned abroad are now being mimicked at home.
Social media posts amplified the alarm, with one viral reaction declaring, Wow. The same tactics as a Communist Dictator Evil Jack Smiths election investigation didnt stop at Trump. It detailed shipping addresses of ordinary people who bought MAGA hats, plus donor and voter data on 639,000 Republicans dating back to 2005?? Fox News host Kevin Corke, sharing the report, appeared less shocked than resigned, responding with a terse, Did he now... https://t.co/tyTNKgxcet.
For years, Grassley has quietly done the unglamorous work of oversight, and his latest disclosures reinforce what many on the right see as an epic level of corruption and abuse of power inside the BidenMerrick Garland Justice Department. By contrast, Trumps Attorney General Todd Blanche and Kash Patel at the FBI are credited with changing the who cares about crime tone in Washington by refocusing federal law enforcement on fraudsters, illegal alien criminals, and drug lords rather than political opponents.
Yet for many conservatives, accountability remains elusive so long as Smith himself faces no legal consequences. But until I see this guy prosecuted, I wont be satisfied, the author writes, arguing that Smith betrayed the American people with his draconian power trip, and this nation cannot let that stand.
The double standard is glaring: Leftists squeal that the slightest thing they dont agree with is a danger to Democracy, yet it took Donald Trump winning the 2024 election to stop this tyrant from continuing to make a mockery of our Constitution and our system. The question practically asks itself: Care to comment, Adam Schiff?
Adding insult to injury, critics point to evidence that Smith was never the neutral arbiter the media portrayed. This is nonpartisan Special Counsel Jack Smith Wearing an anti-Trump shirt at an anti-Trump concert sponsored by an anti-Trump nonprofit which is funded by an anti-Trump billionaire. What a scam, one post observed, underscoring why conservatives see the Arctic Frost probe not as justice, but as a partisan operation aimed squarely at them.
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