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BumRushDaShow

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Thu Feb 26, 2026, 05:55 PM Thursday

Wiles "in shock" over FBI phone-record subpoena [View all]

Source: msn/Axios

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FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI under President Biden subpoenaed his phone records and those of Susie Wiles, who ran President Trump's campaign and is now White House chief of staff, when they were private citizens.

The big picture: Trump officials familiar with the investigation tell Axios the revelations might be "the tip of the iceberg," and that the FBI may have probed more Trumpworld figures.

  • Wiles told associates: "I am in shock."


  • What they're saying: Patel said in a statement to Axios, "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."

    State of play: Patel told Reuters, which broke the story, that investigators obtained "toll records" — the timing and recipients of calls. The FBI sought records of calls Patel and Wiles made in 2022 and 2023, amid the federal probe of whether Trump improperly stored classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Patel said.

    Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wiles-in-shock-over-fbi-phone-record-subpoena/ar-AA1X7ML9



    REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143622332

    He obviously has ZERO idea about what the FBI "does", apparent with his fake outrage, and despite being in charge of the place, yet spending most of his time engaging in leisure activities and misuse of government property.
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