10 FBI agents investigating Trump

The downloads came after Reuters reported that the FBI had requested evidence of phone records made by FBI Director Kash Patel, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, when both were still private citizens, as part of Smith's probe into Trump.

Reuters's article quoted Patel, who claimed the FBI had secretly obtained its own phone records “using poor pretexts and burying the entire process in banned files designed to avoid any supervision”.

Reuters's article added that it had not independently verified any of Patel's claims.

Patel did not give any evidence of staff violations that were fired, it broadcasts Telegrafi, Periscope.

Special Adviser Jack Smith monitored two federal investigations of current President Trump.

One case claimed he tried illegally to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections, while the other focused on preserving classified documents and trying to prevent the Justice Department when it asked him to return the files.

All FBI agents and analysts who were fired Wednesday were involved in classified documents.

Smith's double investigation into Trump led to the first federal criminal indictments against a former president in US history.

The charges of classified documents were dropped by a federal judge in Florida in mid-2024, arguing that Smith had been illegally appointed, and Smith dropped the charges of the 2020 elections after Trump won the 2024 race.

Since then, the Trump administration has targeted federal employees who worked in both cases.

The Justice Department dismissed a group of prosecutors working on Smith's team, and the FBI has fired agents involved in the Arctic Frost election investigation.