Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Newsmax on Tuesday that Department of Justice intel released to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, showed former Democrat special counsel Jack Smith deployed tactics against Republicans like "Stalin's secret police."
Schmitt told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren" that Republicans are hearing about the latest intelligence about Smith's tactics which included tapping personal messages, including texts of at least 44 members of Congress.
Schmitt said the net went even further.
"I was a chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association. That organization got pulled into all of this, including [conservative leader] Charlie Kirk's organization [TPUSA]. And [the] only crime was we were Republican leaning organizations," he said. "To subpoena documents, to secretly tap phones and read text messages. This is like [former Soviet leader Joseph] Stalin's secret police."
The DOJ initially provided details of the activities Tuesday to Grassley, who posted in response, "I received records frm DOJ confirming Jack Smith's investigative team reviewed the contents of text msgs sent by 44 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Im 1 of the 44."
The senator's post continued, "Im alerting my colleagues who were impacted and will release the records... so American ppl can see the evidence."
Schmitt told Newsmax that he believed the Biden administration knew things like this would happen with Smith in that position trying to take down then-former President Donald Trump.
"They knew exactly who Jack Smith was and that's why he was selected, which makes it all the more egregious all the way to the top," he said.
Schmitt said this shows why Smith was brought in for the position.
"It was a, 'Show me the man, I'll show you the crime' kind of style of justice," he said. "And Jack Smith, I hope eventually, is going to be before the Senate Judiciary Committee. There ought to be repercussions for this kind of behavior. There's no doubt about it."
"We've never seen anything like this," Schmitt said. "I mean, this makes Watergate look like a two-bit burglary. This was the whole of government and the entire Justice Department weaponized against President Trump. And then clearly now, pulling in members of Congress."
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