Bombshell Report: Biden FBI Spied On Trump’s 2024 Campaign
A Reuters report says that, during the Biden management, the FBI subpoenaed phone records belonging to Kash Patel and Susie Wiles—both closely tied to Donald Trump—during 2022 and 2023 as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump’s conduct around the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents. Patel described the move as outrageous and hidden in prohibited case files, and ten FBI officials were reportedly fired over the finding. Reuters could not independently verify exactly which records were obtained or who approved the subpoenas, nor whether Patel or Wiles themselves were under investigation. The article notes that the FBI found the records in files labeled “Prohibited,” which makes them harder to locate. It also states that the seizure extended into Wiles’s time as Trump’s co-campaign manager in 2024. The piece places this in a broader pattern of surveillance actions by a Democrat-led FBI against Trump’s campaign, citing past FBI activity in 2016 connected to the Steele dossier and the Russia-related investigations.
Following in the footsteps of his former boss, President Joe Biden’s FBI surveilled a member of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign leading up to the 2024 election, according to a new bombshell report.
The damning revelation was disclosed by FBI Director Kash Patel in a Wednesday Reuters article. The outlet reported how the Biden FBI “subpoenaed records of phone calls” made by Patel and now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023, years in which they were both private citizens.
According to Patel, the actions came as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump’s conduct regarding the 2020 election and handling of classified documents, the latter of which culminated in an unprecedented raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
“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 said in a statement.
Ten FBI officials have been fired as a result of the discovery, several agency employees reportedly told Reuters.
The outlet said that it “could not independently establish what records the FBI obtained or who approved the subpoenas.” Nor could it “ascertain if Patel or Wiles themselves were under investigation and, if so, why.”
“Both were close to Trump during this period, as he built toward and ultimately launched his campaign to reclaim the presidency in 2024,” the report reads. “Both Patel and Wiles were known to have been interviewed by investigators as part of Smith’s investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents following his first term.”
The bombshell report goes on to disclose allegations by two anonymous FBI officials, who claimed that the Biden-run agency “recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney” in 2023. These officials said that while Wiles’ attorney knew that the “call was being recorded, and consented to it … Susie Wiles was not.”
According to Reuters, Patel said he was unaware of the “FBI’s purpose in seizing the phone records of him and Wiles, who became a top Trump adviser after he left office in 2021 and eventually co-campaign manager for his 2024 run against Biden.” The FBI director further claimed that Smith’s collection of Wiles’ phone records “extended into [her] time as Trump’s co-campaign manager, though he did not say when exactly the record collection began or ended.”
Reuters reported that the FBI “discovered the phone records in files categorized as ‘Prohibited,’ which makes them difficult to discover on the bureau’s computer systems.” The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland previously noted in these pages how FBI materials coded as “Prohibited Access” in the agency’s “Sentinel case management system will not appear in search results, meaning that users of Sentinel would not know that information relevant to their search even exists.”
Patel and Wiles were hardly the only Trump-aligned figures to have their phone records seized as part of Smith’s lawfare against the then-former president.
Smith and his team acquired the phone records of numerous GOP senators and congressional members following the 2020 election. He also sought nondisclosure orders to prevent these elected officials from being informed about the seizure of their information.
The reported seizure of Wiles’ records also marks the second major presidential election in recent years in which a Democrat-run FBI surveilled Trump’s campaign.
The Obama FBI used discredited and phony opposition research (“the Steele dossier”) bankrolled by the Hillary Clinton campaign’s law firm as justification to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page leading up to the 2016 election. The egregious conduct came as part of the Obama intel apparatus’ investigation into the baseless conspiracy theory that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
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