If you thought the Biden administration’s “return to normal” was going to be boring, buckle up—because apparently, normal includes using federal agencies to spy on political opponents and keep them in the dark with secret court orders.
Former Trump officials say they were quietly targeted by the FBI, and Google was the silent delivery system. Emails from the tech giant started arriving just weeks before Trump’s second term kicked off, notifying these officials that the Bureau had compelled Google to hand over their private data—without their knowledge, and with a court order banning Google from even telling them. Until now.
Dan Scavino, now back as White House Deputy Chief of Staff, shared his own email from Google. The message revealed that the FBI had accessed his account. The kicker? Scavino only found out because the gag order finally expired—months later.
“I’ve never shared this,” Scavino posted on X. “But this is a small taste of the INSANITY that many of us went through—right here in the United States of America.”
He called it lawfare at its finest. Others are calling it something else: weaponized government.
And this isn’t an isolated incident.
Imagine patriotically and proudly serving in the first Trump White House for four years, and departing in January of 2021 . . . Then, during the four years you’re out, BIDEN LAWFARE kicks in, and you receive the below email five weeks before re-entering the White House again in…
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) August 1, 2025
Kash Patel, now Director of the FBI, responded almost instantly: “I got one of those too…” His post wasn’t long, but it hit hard. Then came Jeff Clark—another official who served under Trump—who said he received the same kind of alert and had been forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars to defend his private communications from what he called a fishing expedition.
This is where it gets even more troubling.
Clark said his emails were combed through by a DOJ team connected to former special counsel Jack Smith. These weren’t election-related emails, he said. They included pastoral communication, marital discussions, medical records, and even privileged attorney-client exchanges with Trump himself.
But that didn’t stop Smith’s team. According to Clark, they pushed those emails through anyway.
“They were trying to bait me to go to court to get them to destroy their secret copies,” Clark explained. “It didn’t work and I didn’t fold under pressure.”
To recap: religious privilege, marital privilege, medical privacy, and attorney-client confidentiality—none of it stopped the investigation. And the FBI, according to Clark, never gave him a chance to contest it before taking his data.
According to Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino Jr. and FBI director Kash Patel, right before Trump started his second term, Google told them they were ordered by the Biden FBI to hand over their Google account information, and were not allowed to inform them. pic.twitter.com/8dXNporYJW
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All of this stems from investigations ordered during the Biden years—long after Trump had left office and long before any new term had begun. Jack Smith was tasked with investigating Trump over January 6 and later classified documents. But in the process, his team scooped up the personal data of people who had nothing to do with those events.
The FBI has yet to comment. No surprise there.
These revelations aren’t just political gossip—they’re a glimpse into a machine that operated quietly, behind closed doors, targeting political opponents while shielding itself with court orders and silence.
And now, with Trump back in the White House, the people who were targeted aren’t just talking—they’re in positions of power again.
If the Biden team was trying to intimidate, it may have done the opposite. Because these officials aren’t backing down. They’re telling their stories. And if these stories are just the beginning, Washington might be in for a very loud reckoning.
