Sarah Bedford: FBI surveillance of Trump campaign ‘pretty serious’
The Washington Examiner reports that FBI surveillance of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was described as more extensive adn aggressive by investigations editor Sarah Bedford, raising questions about which Trump associates were targeted and how records were obtained.
– Bedford says the FBI engaged in a “pretty serious” surveillance operation of Trump and his 2024 campaign, including obtaining phone records of private individuals linked to Trump, such as Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, ahead of the election.
– she contends the FBI has become “even more aggressive in surveilling conservatives” or anyone connected to Trump’s campaign under President biden.
– On the Hugh Hewitt Show, Bedford argued that the DOJ’s interest in who wiles spoke with and texted during the campaign, and reports that the FBI listened to a call with her lawyers, illustrate increased scrutiny of Trump associates.
– The article notes the DOJ quietly closed the autopen inquiry targeting Biden aides,supported by partially redacted emails from Aug. 3, 2022, suggesting the timing of the Mar-a-Lago raid was tied to Biden’s briefing, which appears to contradict Biden’s public claim of no prior knowledge.
– It also mentions that the FBI fired additional agents who had worked on Trump-related investigations and that more classified documents were found at Mar-a-Lago despite an attorney’s statement that Trump was no longer in possession of such materials.
– The piece places these points in the broader context of perceived FBI/DOJ actions during the 2024 political cycle and includes related stories and multimedia content.
Public ‘largely accepted’ Biden’s FBI was surveilling Trump campaign: Sarah Bedford
Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said the FBI engaged in a “pretty serious thing” in its surveillance of President Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign.
The FBI obtained phone records belonging to Kash Patel and Susie Wiles when both were private citizens from investigations tied to Trump ahead of the 2024 election. Bedford said the FBI was being “even more aggressive in surveilling conservatives” or anyone connected to Trump’s campaign under former President Joe Biden’s leadership.
“And I think one of the reasons why stuff like this doesn’t break through is because people have largely accepted that the FBI was aggressively going after Donald Trump, but because he won reelection, people are, I guess, sort of willing to write that off,” Bedford said on the Hugh Hewitt Show, Wednesday, guest-hosted by Mark Davis.
“But it’s a pretty serious thing that the FBI was able to go after the now-FBI Director Kash Patel and the now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during the heat of a presidential campaign,” she said.
Bedford added it’s not clear why the Justice Department needed to see who Wiles was speaking to and texting as she was running Trump’s campaign. She also said there are reports the FBI “listened in” on a phone call Wiles conducted with her lawyers.
Bedford concluded it’s not entirely surprising “in this day and age” that this isn’t discussed in the news more, but it is still “shocking.”
DOJ QUIETLY CLOSES AUTOPEN INVESTIGATION TARGETING BIDEN AND AIDES
The Washington Examiner obtained partially redacted emails that include internal FBI communications from Aug. 3, 2022, just five days before the agency’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, suggesting the search was tethered to the timing of when Biden would be briefed about it.
The email communications appear to contradict the Biden administration’s claim that Biden had no prior knowledge of the search of Trump’s property.
The FBI fired additional agents in February who had worked on an investigation into Trump, specifically those who helped investigate Trump’s unlawful retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, for which he was later indicted by the then-DOJ. The FBI had found additional documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate despite an attorney for Trump signing a statement that allegedly verified he was no longer holding onto any classified documents.
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