The FBI, under the leadership of Kash Patel, has fired at least 10 employees who worked on the investigation into classified documents at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, according to reports.
The staffers were dismissed after Reuters reported that the bureau had obtained phone records from Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in connection to the probe during the Biden administration.
“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 told Reuters.
The investigation, overseen by Special Counsel Jack Smith, centered on Trump’s retention of classified documents after leaving office in 2021. It culminated in an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 where agents recovered boxes containing top-secret materials.
In July 2024, a federal judge dismissed the case, ruling that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional. Trump has consistently described it, along with the other cases against him, as a “witch hunt.”
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