Susie Wiles, chief of staff of President Donald Trump, is reportedly “in shock” after finding out that the FBI subpoenaed her phone records when special counsel investigated Trump in 2022 and 2023.
Axios reported that Wiles told associates, “I’m in shock.”
We learned yesterday that the FBI, under President Joe Biden, subpoenaed the phone records of Wiles and FBI Director Kash Patel when they were private citizens.
The subpoenas came out when Smith investigated Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election and hiding classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
“It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records – along with those of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight,” Patel told Reuters.
Smith’s crew interviewed Patel and Wiles during the investigation.
The FBI recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney in 2023.
Get this. The attorney knew the FBI would record the call and consented.
The attorney never told Wiles.
We learned in October that Smith tracked eight Republican senators during his investigation.
The September 27, 2023, memo titled CAST [Cellular Analysis Survey Team] Assistance listed the phone numbers of senators who stated that an FBI agent “conducted preliminary toll analysis on limited toll records associated with” them.
A few weeks later, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that Smith targeted over 400 Republicans during Arctic Frost:
The subpoenas, which were provided to Grassley through legally protected whistleblower disclosures, were sent to 34 individuals and 163 businesses. These 197 subpoenas requested testimony, communications and records related to at least 430 named Republican individuals and entities. Some of the records Smith subpoenaed from banks, individuals and businesses included:
- Communications with media companies such as CBS, Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, Sinclair and others.
- Communications with “any member, employee or agent of the Legislative Branch of the U.S. Government.”
- Communications with White House advisors, such as Stephen Miller, Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner, Lara Trump and others.
- Statistical data and analysis relating to donors and fundraising efforts.
- Broad financial data relating to conservative individuals and entities.
I wonder what else we’ll find out.
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