FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the ouster of at least 10 employees involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, four people briefed on the matter told CNN. The agents had secretly seized Kash Patel’s and Susie Wiles’ phone records. They did it before Trump was re-elected in 2024.
More firings might be coming.
Patel ordered a wider investigation following the discovery of records showing that the FBI used subpoenas to obtain his communication records and the communications of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during a 2022-2023 probe that eventually came under the leadership of special counsel Jack Smith, the people briefed on the matter said.
The Deep State agents turned the information over to Jack Smith.
They were going for a coup redo.
🚨 BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel just FIRED 10 Deep State agents involved in seizing the PHONE RECORDS of Kash Patel and now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles before Trump began his 2nd term
GOOD RIDDANCE! Keep purging, Director Patel! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ZFjIon8tm8
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 25, 2026
“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,” he said.
The FBI director briefed Wiles on the seizure Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter.
