Susie Wiles attorney denies consenting to FBI phone call recording: Report

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ 2023 lawyer is disputing allegations that he agreed to let the Biden-era FBI record a call with his client without her knowledge, according to a report.

“If I ever pulled a stunt like that, I would not — and should not — have a license to practice law,” the unidentified attorney said, according to Axios. “I’m as shocked as Susie.”

The denial comes as scrutiny intensifies around the FBI’s use of subpoenas and investigative tools during Trump-related investigations led by special counsel Jack Smith, ahead of President Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election.

Reuters first disclosed the subpoenas on Wednesday, reporting that Biden’s FBI subpoenaed the phone records of Wiles and now FBI Director Kash Patel in 2022 and 2023, when they were both private citizens. Smith was investigating allegations that Trump worked to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, resort.

The lawyer for White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has reportedly denied consenting to the FBI recording his client in 2023. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

At least 10 FBI employees were fired Wednesday over the affair, Fox News Digital has learned.

Amid the revelations, two FBI officials said FBI agents recorded a phone call between Wiles and his lawyer in 2023. Wiles’ lawyer knew the call was being recorded and consented, but Wiles was not informed, the officials claimed.

The lawyer, whose name has not been made public, responded that he “categorically denies having allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI,” according to Axios journalist Marc Caputo.

Wiles allegedly “believed him and that the Biden-era FBI could have lied about it,” Caputo wrote on X.

FBI Director Kash Patel announces the arrest of Ryan Wedding, former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, during a press conference in Ontario, California, January 23, 2026. (Mike Blake/Reuters)

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Wiles for comment but did not immediately receive responses. Fox News Digital also contacted the FBI for comment Friday morning.

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The report prompted conservatives and Trump allies to support the unidentified lawyer and waver on the case as a whole.

“I’ve known the lawyer for a long time… and I believe him – this is a violation of the fundamental constitutional rights of all Americans. We need accountability and we need action,” Chris LaCivita, co-manager of the Trump 2024 campaign, said on X.

“So the Biden lawyer that the FBI listened to on a call with Susie Wiles said he had no idea what happened,” OutKick founder Clay Travis told X. “It’s a huge story. Biden’s FBI spied on Trump’s campaign manager during the 2024 campaign.”

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Former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies before the House Judiciary Committee regarding its investigations into President Donald Trump, in the Rayburn House office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 22, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Wiles was reportedly stunned by news of the subpoenas, with Axios reporting that she told associates on Thursday, “I’m in shock.”

Patel issued a similar statement on Wednesday.

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“It is outrageous and deeply alarming that previous leadership of the FBI secretly subpoenaed my own phone records – as well as those of current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited records designed to evade surveillance,” he said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.

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