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- The FBI monitored Melania and Barron Trump’s travel and tapped Susie Wiles’ cellphone in Jack Smith’s probe.
- Attorney General Merrick Garland approved the wiretaps in May 2022 after FBI Director Christopher Wray’s memo.
- Agents traced the first family’s trips to plan the August 8, 2022 Mar-a-Lago search and bedroom raids.
- Former Democratic aide Julian Epstein called the surveillance “Nixonian” and said it lacked legal justification.