Nov 22, 2022
Jack Smith, the newly-appointed special counsel overseeing the investigation into former President Donald Trump, is a partisan Democrat who has targeted conservatives in the past, according to House Republicans. "Jack Smith has been a swamp creature forever," House Judiciary GOP recently tweeted. According to a December 2014 report put out by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, Smith was a key figure in the Obama era Internal Revenue Service (IRS) political targeting scandal. Beginning in 2010, the IRS and the FBI improperly targeted conservative nonprofit groups for special scrutiny ahead of the 2012 general election. The IRS essentially stopped processing applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exemption status received from organizations with "Tea Party," "patriots," or "9/12" in their names. During the same time period, the agency approved applications from several dozen liberal-leaning organizations whose names included terms such as "