Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) reportedly had his phone records subpoenaed as part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President Trump and the January 6th, 2021, protest at the Capitol.
Cruz is now the ninth known GOP senator to have had his phone records sought by Smith.
He joins Sens. Marsha Blackburn (TN), Ron Johnson (WI), Bill Hagerty (TN), Josh Hawley (MO), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Lindsey Graham (SC), Dan Sullivan (AK), and Tommy Tuberville (AL), according to a release earlier this month by a Senate panel.
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) was also caught up in the investigation known as “Arctic Frost.”
Axios, which first reported on the Cruz revelations, reports that the Texas senator’s “phone records were ultimately not analyzed as part of Smith’s Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation because AT&T did not comply with the subpoena.”
Good on AT&T.
A clearly agitated Cruz called the attempts to target his phone records, as well as the communications of his colleagues, a “21st-century digital Watergate.”
That’s underselling it, if we’re being honest.