Former special counsel Jack Smith’s decision to subpoena several Republican lawmakers’ phone records as part of his investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss was “entirely proper, lawful, and consistent with established Department of Justice policy,” his lawyers said Tuesday.
“While Mr. Smith’s prosecutions of President Trump have predictably been politicized by others, politics never influenced his decision making,” Peter Koski and Lanny Breuer, attorneys at Covington & Burling, wrote in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
“A number of people have falsely stated that Mr. Smith ‘tapped’ Senators’ phones, ‘spied’ on their communications, or ‘surveilled’ their conversations,” they said.
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