Two more Trump allies say Biden FBI secretly seized their data amid 'weaponization' controversy
At least two more allies of President Donald Trump have said the Biden-era FBI secretly sought their records, in addition to the records of FBI Director Kash Patel and White...
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At least two more allies of President Donald Trump have said the Biden-era FBI secretly sought their records, in addition to the records of FBI Director Kash Patel and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. Republican operative Corey Lewandowski, who currently serves as a Department of Homeland Security aide, said Thursday he received the same type of notice that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino disclosed last year regarding records seizures. Both men said they were notified in 2024 that Google had complied with FBI legal demands for information tied to their accounts, underscoring how broadly the bureau’s investigation into Trump extended and fueling Republicans’ claims that President Joe Biden "weaponized" law enforcement to target his political opponents. "Funny - I received the same notice," Lewandowski wrote on X. "Where is the media outcry. Right, they don’t care when it happens to Trump people." Lewandowski and Scavino both said the notices they received indicated that Google had been under a court-authorized gag order and could not notify them sooner about the demands for their records. Prosecutors commonly obtain such gag orders as part of their investigations. JONATHAN TURLEY: JACK SMITH’S SECRET SURVEILLANCE OF PATEL AND WILES SHOULD ALARM US ALL Patel, meanwhile, confirmed the existence of the subpoenas for his and Wiles' phone records in a statement to Fox News this week and said the subpoenas were difficult to access because the files for them had added layers of protection. "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. Fox News was told that the subpoenas sought Patel's and Wiles' toll records, which include dates and times and phone numbers related to messages and calls but do not in…