The White House on Monday released documents showing the FBI tracked Susie Wiles’ phone activity from at least February through May 2023, cataloguing who called her, whom she called, when the calls happened and how long they lasted. The records place a senior Trump aide inside a months-long map of contacts that reached attorneys, journalists, campaign personnel, Trump Organization contacts and Secret Service officials.
The detail matters because it gives a sharper view of the scope of the monitoring. Wiles was in contact with at least 21 attorneys, and the logs also name journalists tied to, The Washington Post and POLITICO, along with two separate Secret Service officials identified as USSS 1 and USSS 2. A March 9 entry shows investigators cataloguing a series of calls, and on March 24 they logged a 41-second call from Lawyer 7 to Wiles while also reviewing earlier calls between them.
These records sit inside Plasmic Echo, the FBI investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents and other presidential records that led to the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago and later expanded to possible obstruction. That broader case explains why Wiles’ contacts were being pulled into the file at all, and why her phone activity would draw scrutiny during the Biden era.
But the documents stop short of saying what investigators were trying to prove. They show the reach of the collection, not its purpose. That gap matters because the records stretch across legal, political, media and security circles without revealing whether the aim was to map a network, test a witness account or confirm some other part of the inquiry.
The release also fits with earlier public discussion of subpoenaed phone records, but the new files broaden the picture beyond a single call or one narrow relationship. What is now clear is that the FBI was not looking at one contact in isolation. It was recording a pattern, and the unanswered question is what that pattern was meant to establish.
