FBI subpoena of phone records leaves Trump chief of staff 'in shock': report
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was reportedly in shock after hearing that the FBI under former President Joe Biden subpoenaed her and current FBI Director Kash Patel's phone...
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was reportedly in shock after hearing that the FBI under former President Joe Biden subpoenaed her and current FBI Director Kash Patel's phone records in 2022 and 2023. Wiles — who ran President Donald Trump 's 2024 campaign — reportedly told associates, "I am in shock," Axios reported on Thursday. Reuters first disclosed the subpoenas, which were issued during the Biden administration, while special counsel Jack Smith was investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The subpoenaed toll records included phone numbers and the dates and times of calls, but not the content of the conversations, Fox News has learned. BIDEN'S FBI SUBPOENAED KASH PATEL'S AND SUSIE WILES' PHONE RECORDS DURING FEDERAL TRUMP INVESTIGATION Smith eventually charged Trump in 2023 with multiple felony offenses related to alleged efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election and his handling of documents. The election interference case was later dismissed by a federal judge after Smith moved to drop it following Trump's reelection. Smith also dropped the Justice Department’s appeal of a separate ruling that dismissed the classified documents case. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in both matters. In 2023, the FBI recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney, two FBI officials told Fox News. Additionally, the officials said that Wiles' attorney was aware that the call was being recorded and consented, but the now-White-House chief of staff did not. "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, the current FBI director, told Fox News on Wednesday. GOP LAWMAKER ACCUSES JACK SMITH OF ‘SPYING’ ON CONGRESS AT TENSE HOUSE HEARING OV…