六十三万九千人。多亏不知疲倦的查克·格拉斯利，我们现在知道，这就是特别检察官杰克·史密斯为梅里克·加兰领导的司法部在乔·拜登入主1600宾夕法尼亚大道期间搜集的个人姓名数量。（“入主1600宾夕法尼亚大道”，几乎不言而喻，比说“拜登担任总统期间”更为准确。）格拉斯利参议员在追查杰克·史密斯、梅里克·加兰及其深层政府中的众多同伙——也就是民主党——的不法证据方面，表现得像猎犬一样执着。
Six hundred and thirty-nine thousand. Thanks to the indefatigable Chuck Grassley, we now know that that’s the number of individuals whose names Special Counsel Jack Smith hoovered up for Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice when Joe Biden occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (“Occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” it may almost go without saying, seems more accurate than saying “when Biden was president.”) Senator Grassley has been terrier-like in pursuing evidence of wrongdoing by people like Jack Smith, Merrick Garland and their many confrères in the deep state, which is to say, the Democrat State.
格拉斯利此前已揭示，近5000张共和党捐款人支票，大多金额微不足道，已被加兰的手下收集为“证据”。“什么证据？”这是个非常好的问题。简而言之，答案是：“支持或向特朗普捐款的证据。”这能作为依据吗？当然可以。至少，过去是这样。
Grassley had earlier shown that nearly 5,000 GOP donor checks, mostly for piddly amounts, had been collected as “evidence” by Garland’s minions. “Evidence of what?”That’s a very good question. The answer, in brief is, “Evidence of sympathy for or making donations to Donald Trump.”Is that actionable? You betcha. At least, it was.
但现在，格拉斯利发现了最大的矿脉。格拉斯利提前透露了消息：“根据新的举报人发现，杰克·史密斯和拜登司法部收集了639000名共和党捐款人+选民+支持者的个人数据，这比我们此前所知的多128倍。”要想登上杰克·史密斯最详尽的电子表格——顺便说一句，该表格不仅包括你的姓名和实际地址，还包括你的电子邮件地址、你是否为注册共和党人、你所在的国会选区、你的职业和工作单位、你的政治捐款数量和金额，以及你信用卡的后四位数字——你需要做什么呢？
But now, Grassley has struck the motherlode. Grassley telegraphed the news: “Based on new whistleblower findings Jack Smith & Biden DOJ collected personal data for 639,000 Republican donors+voters+supporters Thts 128x MORE than we knew b4.”What did you have to do to land a spot on Jack’s Smith’s most extensive spreadsheet – a spreadsheet, by the way, that includes not only your name and physical address but also such tidbits as your email addresses, whether you were a registered Republican, what congressional district you inhabited, your occupation and place of employment, the number and amounts of your political donations and the last four digits of your credit card?
也许你买过一顶红色的MAGA帽子。没错，如果你在2020年至2025年间买过这种开明的时尚配饰（我买了十几顶），你就入选了J·史密斯的《禁书目录》。
Well, perhaps you bought one of those red MAGA hats. Yep, if you bought one of those enlightened fashion accessories (I bought a dozen) between 2020 and 2025 you earned inclusion on J. Smith’s Index Prohibitorum.
老杰克是个好奇的家伙。除了编纂这个意识形态敌人的数据库——我的意思是，忠诚反对派的成员——他还获取并归档了苏西·怀尔斯、其他特朗普助手、某些记者以及众多国会议员的电话数据，正如凯瑟琳·赫里奇所指出的，“这为绘制特朗普竞选团队和辩护团队打开了大门。”
Good old Jack was a curious chap. In addition to compiling this data base of ideological enemies – I mean, members of the loyal opposition – he also acquired and docketed phone data from Susie Wiles, other Trump aides and certain journalists and many members of Congress, a process that, as Catherine Herridge noted, “opened the door to mapping the Trump campaign and defense team.”
正如兰德·保罗参议员所指出的，2025年12月，杰克·史密斯在宣誓下作证称他没有监视国会议员的短信。那是当时的情况。现在呢？保罗说：“新证据证实他监视了数十名国会议员，包括我本人。”至于这意味着什么，保罗已经为我们说得很清楚。“这是对权力的公然滥用，正是我们的开国元勋所警告的那样。”的确如此。
In December 2025, as Senator Rand Paul noted, Jack Smith swore under oath that he did not spy on text messages belonging to members of Congress. That was then. Now? Quoth Paul: “New evidence confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress, myself included.”And in case you were wondering what this signifies, Senator Paul spells it out for us. “This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned about.”
而这全部是司法部所宣称的“日常工作”的一部分。“北极霜”是FBI的一个可爱的代号（还记得“交叉飓风”吗？），是杰克·史密斯的“孩子”之一。它于2022年4月启动。其目的是调查唐纳德·特朗普及其盟友是否密谋推翻2020年总统大选的结果。
Yes, it is. And it was all part of what DOJ made out as business as usual. “Arctic Frost,” one of the FBI’s cutesy code names (remember “Crossfire Hurricane”?), was one of Jack Smith’s babies. It was launched in April 2022. Its purpose was to investigate whether Donald Trump and his allies had conspired to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
但杰克·史密斯有三个“孩子”。“北极霜”只是其中之一。唐纳德·特朗普宣布于2022年11月15日参加2024年总统竞选。三天后，即2022年11月18日，梅里克·加兰德任命杰克·史密斯为特别顾问。是事后诸葛亮还是因果关系？不管如何，史密斯肩负两项指控：一是调查2021年1月6日国会大厦的自导游览（但请务必称其为暴乱，并尽可能多地逮捕和监禁参与者）；二是调查唐纳德·特朗普是否非法藏匿了一些机密文件在马阿拉歌庄园。
But Jack Smith had triplets. “Arctic Frost” was only one of his babies. Donald Trump announced that he was tossing his hat into the 2024 presidential race on November 15, 2022. Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as Special Counsel three days later, on November 18. Post hoc or propter hoc? Whichever, Smith had two charges: one, investigate the January 6, 2021 self-guided tour at the Capitol (but be sure to call it an insurrection and arrest and jail as many people as possible) and, two, investigate whether Donald Trump had illegally stashed some classified documents in Mar-a-Lago.
杰克·史密斯和他那群不怎么快乐的反特朗普狂热分子，差一点就毁掉了唐纳德·特朗普——也差一点就剥夺了那63.9万向特朗普竞选捐款或为其周边商品买单的人的权利。若不是最高法院维持了特朗普的豁免权主张，他如今早该进监狱了。许多事情都必须朝着特朗普有利的方向发展。所有关键的事情确实如此发展了。但正如威灵顿公爵所说的滑铁卢战役那样，这是“你一生中见过的最惊险的一次较量”。
Jack Smith and his not-so-merry band of anti-Trump zealots came within a hair’s breadth of destroying Donald Trump – and also shutting down the rights of those 639,000 individuals who donated to Trump’s campaign or ponied up for his merch. Had the Supreme Court not upheld Trump’s claim of immunity he would be in jail now. So many things had to go Trump’s way. All the important ones did. But, like the Battle of Waterloo according to the Duke of Wellington, it was “the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.”