Two more Trump allies have come forward to say the Biden-era FBI quietly obtained their personal records, widening a surveillance controversy that already engulfed FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Fox News reported that Corey Lewandowski, a Republican operative who currently serves as a Department of Homeland Security aide, said Thursday he received a notice about the seizure.

Dan Scavino, now White House Deputy Chief of Staff, disclosed that he was notified in 2024 that Google had complied with FBI legal demands tied to his account.

According to Scavino, the notice indicated Google had been under a court-authorized gag order, which prevented the company from telling him sooner.

Lewandowski responded on X with characteristic bluntness:

"Funny - I received the same notice. Where is the media outcry. Right, they don't care when it happens to Trump people."

He's not wrong.

A pattern that keeps growing

The Lewandowski and Scavino revelations land days after Patel confirmed that the previous FBI leadership had secretly subpoenaed his own phone records and those of Wiles.

The subpoenas themselves have not been made public, and details about what they sought remain unconfirmed, though Fox News was told they targeted toll records.

Patel's statement to Fox News did not mince words:

"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."

Note the phrase: "prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight." These weren't just subpoenas. According to Patel, they were deliberately hidden from the people whose job it now is to hold the bureau accountable.

The picture sharpens further with a separate claim from two FBI officials who told Fox News that in 2023, agents recorded a phone call between Wiles and her lawyer. Wiles was a private citizen at the time. Her attorney denied to Axios that he knew of any such recording, saying:

"If I ever pulled a stunt like that I wouldn't — and shouldn't — have a license to practice law. I'm as shocked as Susie."

Recording a call between a private citizen and her attorney. Let that detail settle for a moment.

Hundreds of subpoenas, one political direction

Documents released by Congress show the FBI, and later special counsel Jack Smith after he assumed the role, issued hundreds of subpoenas in connection with investigations into Trump.

Those investigations centered on his alleged retention of classified documents and his alleged attempts to subvert the 2020 election. The subpoenas swept up the phone records of several GOP lawmakers along the way.

While it remains unclear exactly what the FBI was investigating in Patel's and Wiles' cases, the timing and targets signal the subpoenas could be related to the classified documents probe.

Patel was summoned to give grand jury testimony in exchange for immunity in 2022. Wiles was described as a known witness in the classified documents case.

Smith has repeatedly defended his work as by-the-book and apolitical. His representative offered no comment. The White House referred Fox News to the FBI. The FBI gave no additional comment.

The silence is familiar. When the subjects are Trump allies, the institutions that demand transparency from everyone else go mute.

The scope problem

Consider what we now know, just from public disclosures:

• Patel's phone records: secretly subpoenaed
• Wiles' phone records: secretly subpoenaed
• Wiles' call with her attorney: reportedly recorded by FBI agents in 2023
• Lewandowski's Google account records: seized under gag order
• Scavino's Google account records: seized under gag order
• Phone records of several GOP lawmakers: subpoenaed

These are the ones we know about. Court-authorized gag orders prevented targets from learning about the seizures for months or years. How many others received similar notices and haven't spoken publicly? How many haven't received their notices yet?

Patel fires back

Around the same time he revealed the subpoenas, Patel fired at least 10 bureau employees. The FBI Agents Association, which represents thousands of employees, condemned the firings:

"The FBIAA condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which—like other firings by Director Patel—violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."

The association further claimed the actions "weaken the Bureau by stripping away critical expertise and destabilizing the workforce."

Former U.S. Attorney John Fishwick of Virginia suggested the firings could keep Patel "in good stead with President Trump" and took a shot at Patel's appearance, saying he did not "look like a prototypical G-man" during an Olympics locker-room celebration.

This is the institutional response: when evidence surfaces that the bureau secretly surveilled political opponents and may have recorded attorney-client communications, the establishment reflex is to defend the workforce and attack the man uncovering it.

Not to address whether the surveillance was justified. Not to explain why gag orders kept targets in the dark. Not to reconcile the bureau's stated principles with its conduct.

The real question the media won't ask

For years, Republicans warned that the Biden administration weaponized law enforcement against political opponents. The press treated these claims as conspiracy-adjacent grievance politics. Every new disclosure narrows the gap between what Republicans alleged and what the record shows.

Secret subpoenas for the phone records of a future FBI director. Secret subpoenas for the phone records of a future White House chief of staff. A reported recording of that chief of staff's conversation with her own lawyer while she was a private citizen.

Gag orders preventing Trump allies from knowing their Google accounts had been raided. Hundreds of subpoenas cast across the political orbit of one man.

At some point, the word "weaponization" stops being a talking point and starts being a description.

Lewandowski asked where the media outcry was. He already knew the answer.