House Republicans issued a subpoena threat to special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday while demanding information about the federal investigations into former President Donald Trump.
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) sent a letter to Smith with a new series of requests for documents and communications linked to the inquiry they characterized as being against President Joe Biden‘s “chief opponent” in the 2024 election.
The letter claimed the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Smith have failed to “sufficiently” respond to prior information demands, and an accompanying statement released by the judiciary panel warned, “If the Department of Justice continues stonewalling the investigation, the Committee may be forced to resort [to the] compulsory process.”
Smith is leading two prosecutions against Trump: one is a 2020 election case in which the Supreme Court is now considering whether to take up the question of presidential immunity, and the other is a case over the former president’s handling of classified documents.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges he faces in these cases and other legal matters that loom over his latest White House bid. He claims that politically motivated prosecutors are conducting a “witch hunt” against him.
Jordan and Biggs noted they have fresh concerns following revelations about Smith’s search warrant for records tied to Trump’s account on Twitter, now known as X, in recent weeks.
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“To compound our existing concerns about the actions of our office, we recently learned that you had compelled from Twitter voluminous amounts of private information — including core political speech — of millions of Americans, without an apparent specialized nexus to criminal activity,” the lawmakers wrote.
“Accordingly, the Committee is conducting oversight in order to inform potential legislative reforms, including possible reforms regarding politically motivated prosecutions of current and former Presidents by federal prosecutors and disclosure requirements for Special Counsels and their staff,” they added.
Their new set of demands aims to secure documents and communications related to discussions about the case against Trump between DOJ offices, salaries and expenses, hiring for the special counsel’s team, and the Twitter search warrant. A new deadline for this information and past requests was set on January 4.
The DOJ told The Daily Wire it received the letter but declined to comment further.
Democrats have criticized the GOP’s efforts to gather information from Smith’s endeavors, accusing Republicans of trying to interfere with law enforcement activities.