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Published On: Sat, Mar 21st, 2026

Trump Ally Michael Caputo Says FBI Investigation Into Him And Others Spanned Entire Biden Presidency

On Catherine Herridge’s “Straight to the Point,” longtime Trump loyalist Michael Caputo shares a never-before-seen FBI subpoena and warrant targeting him under the Biden administration. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed other Trump staffers, including Susie Wiles, were targeted for broad surveillance. He says the probe was tied to his work with the Trump campaign and his views on Ukraine, and argues the investigation was politically motivated and part of a broader pattern of surveillance targeting Trump and his associates. “The fact is, after the election in 2024, and it was specific to Russia, they were still talking about Russiagate. It’s almost a comedy if they hadn’t ruined my life,” he said. He also claims the investigation caused significant personal and financial harm, including legal costs and threats against his family and friends. Herridge reports: “Michael Caputo’s case and records are part of a growing body of evidence that, beginning with the Russia investigations, there was ongoing surveillance of President Trump and members of his team.”

“I was really moved by the news that Susie Wiles and Kash Patel and Dan Scavino were surveilled in the same way. It tells me that if very senior people like Susie and very junior people in the campaign like Michael Caputo were both surveilled, then there are dozens in between. And I think what I really want to see come out of this is a full investigation to find the criminals that spied on us in the campaign in 2024,” he said. “The entire Biden presidency, I was a target of FBI investigation,” he said. “I made a film for OAN on Ukraine in 2020. I wrote a book on the same topic. It was called The Ukraine Hoax. On the cover and featured throughout the film were Joe and Hunter Biden and what Hunter was doing in Ukraine to clean up money to share with his family. That made some people angry, and they came after me to try to prove that it was funded by Russians.” “I think it’s bigger than any of us ever realized,” he said. “But the weaponized government is continuing-not just with Michael Caputo. I promise you, if we investigate what they did during the 2024 election, we can hold somebody accountable for spying on the Trump campaign.” “I had no idea that I was being surveilled all those years. I had never received anything like this. I think I approached it as any other American would-really shock. I didn’t really understand what it was. But the fact that I was sitting in the office that opened that investigation, I had access to find out what was going on with me. The average American can’t. And I think there’s probably thousands of Michael Caputos out there after the Biden administration.” “He basically told me that, because it’s pretty well redacted, it appears that it started in the office I was sitting in. In fact, he said it very likely originated in the very suite where I was sitting at the Justice Department.” “I was getting some looks, I can tell you, in the elevators at DOJ,” Caputo said. “I’m surrounded by career lawyers in the U.S. attorney’s office for D.C. And basically the people who opened the investigation into me and my family and my friends, at the behest of the Biden political department, they were all around me, and somehow or another I was supposed to work there.” “Someone told me the person who started it might have been in the office next to me.” “I mean, we had just won the election. They have a warrant for all my records, not just Google. It’s my bank, it’s my phone, they’re all over my stuff,” he said. “So, the fact is, after the election in 2024, and it was specific to Russia, they were still talking about Russiagate. It’s almost a comedy, if they hadn’t ruined my life.” “It’s a consensus problem. I believe that they think that this is true. They think that Donald Trump is a Russian asset because they’ve been brainwashed into it by the people who created this whole hoax and the Obama White House, and they can’t get past it,” he said. “I think it’s a problem with the IQ level over there, because the stupidest guy in the FBI has to understand this is a problem for them.” “They’ve told me that there are photos of me praying in my file and that I’m referred to as a radical traditionalist Catholic. RTC is the acronym in my file and many others. Somehow or another, multiple pictures of me praying are in my file. And I know it’s because I’m a Catholic.” “The fact is, the president has 300 or 3,000 Michael Caputos that deserve mercy. This is a very merciful president. I think he’s right. Right now, he’s searching for a way to help all of us. Very few, if any, of them have access to the president. I was his driver in 1988. That’s the only reason that I got a moment to ask him to do this.” “My legal fees are over a half a million. I’m a guy who grew up in a trailer park, so it’s a lot. We lost everything there. We lost our children’s college funds, and we lost our house. We had to move. Not just because of the financial impact, but because of the violence that was threatened and the people who were sitting outside my house while I was recovering from cancer, throwing pebbles at my window to keep me up at night.” “It isn’t just financial costs. It’s the death threats and the strange, weird surveillance by citizens as they’re following you,” he said. “I can tell you, beyond the financial costs, the opportunity costs-I lost the most profitable years of my career, 52 to 61. And we’ll never recover.” “I know that there was spying on the campaign in 2024, several of my friends told me that I owe it to the country to come forward. Because yes, Susie was spied on, Dan Scavino was spied on, Kash Patel was spied on as an adviser to the campaign, but the idea that they went junior to Michael Caputo-there’s a lot of people between me and Susie Wiles. I did this because I know we were spied upon. The American people need to know. And my wife and my children agree. So I’m here at the approval of my wife and daughters.”
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