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At least 10 FBI employees who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the president’s retention of classified records after he left the White House in 2021 were fired on Wednesday, according to multiple sources.
The firings came after Reuters reported that the FBI had subpoenaed records of phone calls made by FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles when they were still both private citizens as part of Smith’s probe into Trump.
The Reuters article quoted Patel, who said “We have zero tolerance for agents putting the U.S. Constitution above the needs of the current administration. The fact that the investigation in question was required by law is no excuse. Disloyalty to our president will not be tolerated.”
Patel did not provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the staff who were terminated.