FBI Tracked Trump Aide’s Phone, Monitored Melania Trump Before Mar-a-Lago Raid: Declassified Memos

Newly declassified memos released Oct. 5 by the White House show former special prosecutor Jack Smith and FBI agents during the Biden administration monitored President Donald Trump’s campaign manager’s phone and tracked First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump’s travel ahead of the 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago in search of sensitive documents.
FBI agents tracked Trump’s co-campaign manager Susie Wiles’s calls using a pen register device, which records all outgoing phone numbers dialed from a monitored number, and a trap-and-trace device, which records all incoming numbers, according to the memos.
Agents sent detailed reports about when Trump’s defense lawyers would call Wiles, if the calls were missed or returned, and the duration of the conversations. They even tracked when one lawyer would attempt to call while Wiles was on the phone with another person….