Jack Smith secretly collected personal data on Americans who bought MAGA hats between 2021 and 2025

A red Make American Great Again hat.

Former special counsel Jack Smith secretly obtained data on nearly 640,000 Americans during his probe of President Trump, according to whistleblower documents released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, including on people who bought MAGA hats.

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, released documents showing Smith and his team, using FBI resources, swept up info on 639,000 Americans, including Republican donors, voters and supporters. Smith went so far as to obtain the information of Americans who purchased red MAGA hats, including the addresses to which the hats were shipped. 

Smith collected the names, dates of birth, physical addresses, email addresses, and voter registration of hundreds of thousands of everyday Americans, the lion's share of them Republicans. Late last month, Smith gave sworn testimony the Judiciary Committee that his probe of Trump was not partisan driven. Wednesday's revelations contradict that claim.

“This update shows that Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive donor data — and voter data — beyond what could conceivably be necessary for Smith or his team to fulfill the Special Counsel’s mandate. The new findings further corroborate that Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus,” Grassley said in a statement. “I again call on my Democratic colleagues to join my oversight work instead of trying to defend Smith and sweep his abuse of authority under the rug.”

The news came on the same day that the Officer of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a bombshell report showing that nine of the nation's largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo, along with others, systematically engaged in "debanking" of conservatives in the U.S.

The report said the banks denied service, closed accounts and refused credit to people they deemed to be Trump supporters. At a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase, potential banking customers were screened using a list of terms including “MAGA,” “Make America Great” and “America First,” among others. JPMorgan Chase said it has since closed down that business. 

Earlier this month, Smith, just days after his testimony on Capitol Hill, was spotted attending an anti-Trump concert in Maryland where he was photographed wearing a shirt with with the words "No Kings" printed on it.