Weaponized Washington Never Sleeps

Corrupt Democrats are still seeking the ruin of innocent families.

Recent news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was spying on the Trump campaign again in 2024 wasn’t lost on me, but it clearly got lost in the mainstream media. It wasn’t exactly news to me because I was also spied upon by the FBI while I worked on the 2024 Trump effort. In fact, the Bureau started surveilling me soon after Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021.

 I guess that’s no surprise: the FBI wouldn’t leave my family alone during their illegal Russiagate spying operation either. Today, weaponized feds are still on the prowl. American families are still being destroyed. 

In summer 2024, when recent news reports say Trump-Vance campaign chief Susie Wiles was being spied on by the FBI, the Bureau came to my small town in the Florida Everglades to interrogate me for almost three hours. That was August, three months before the election. Curiously, days after Donald J. Trump beat the socks off Kamala Harris, the FBI served a secret warrant on Google/Gmail, my bank, my cellphone company, and more for all of my data – emails, location services, file sharing, bank transactions, cellphone activity, travel, search results, and much more.

Here is the post-2024 election warrant.

The warrant – still active just 90 days ago - strangely seized all information about my state of mind, any admissions of guilt, regrets, or remorse that might reveal Russian-oriented crimes. These clowns were still fixated on their bogus Russia hoax only days ago.

So far, we know the FBI spied upon Trump 2024 staffers Susie Wiles, Dan Scavino, and me during the campaign, accessing planning, policy and strategy interactions. They surveilled FBI Director Kash Patel, then an outside campaign advisor, as well. I think we all suspect there are dozens more Trump campaign staffers who were under FBI surveillance for the entire 2024 campaign cycle. Some are probably still being watched, as I was until December 2025.

If Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice conduct a proper investigation of this rogue FBI and DoJ activity, I have confidence we will uncover crimes and criminals from 2023 and 2024.

Worse yet: the FBI continued their hidden federal criminal investigation into me, my family and my friends until I had to get it closed by the highest authority.

I only discovered this investigation by accident while working for the DoJ myself, in the opening months of the new Trump administration. In March 2025, I learned the federal workers sitting in the same office suite I was were driving my five-year criminal inquiry. I also discovered the FBI probe into me remained active all around me, so I left the administration and returned home. 

And even worse: people who were falsely accused, prosecuted and convicted for crimes they did not commit - all related to Russiagate, January 6 or some other trap set for the President and his people - are still being destroyed as I write these words. 

People are losing everything even today, nearly 15 months into the second Trump presidency. These patriots are targets of relentless pursuits by weaponized federal officials.

Stephen Calk, a former helicopter pilot with 16 years in the US Army reserves, continued his honorable service by opening a bank to provide active duty and veteran service members with home loans nationwide. He was convicted fraudulently during the Russiagate pursuit of Paul Manafort and President Trump. Calk served time in prison, but he is out now. He never admitted guilt because there was no crime and because he remains unbowed, a weaponized Federal Reserve is moving to snatch his bank this month. 

That’s weaponized government for you. Why just destroy one Trump supporter when you can upend thousands of veterans and their families who that man has helped - and would help for decades? Thousands more vets and GIs could get home lines if Calk and his bank could focus on their needs rather than enduring illegal attacks of Democrat prosecutors.

The cases crying out for timely mercy are innumerable, because weaponized government has a voracious appetite for the innocent. After one U.S. Attorney decided there was no case to pin on vocal Trump supporter Michael Castillero, another district resurrected it to satisfy political bloodlust. The financial advisor was found guilty of trumped-up fraud charges.

Next month, on April 15th, Castillero, a father of two, is likely to go to prison pending appeal. His family has been destroyed; he fears they will end up homeless victims of weaponization. 

Both men are still targeted by the DOJ’s viscerally anti-Trump Southern District of New York. If Calk isn’t pardoned really soon, his family’s Federal Savings Bank and its gold-star service to veterans will be no more. If Castillero isn’t pardoned in days, he will be sent to prison and his family will fall. And there are many more still suffering the weaponized “Get Trump” assault. 

It’s not just famously corrupt New York. Trump-loyalists Chris and Erin Mazzei were prosecuted over following a loan originator’s guidance on a PPP loan tied to a television project set to expose organized crime and Democrat government corruption in Honolulu. The prosecutor threatened Chris’s elderly mother to force a plea deal and suppressed key exculpatory evidence, ensuring that critical Brady material never reached the court. The Democrat U.S. attorney lied in court multiple times.

Erin has already spent over a year in federal prison, separated from their two young sons, Chris is scheduled to report in a few months. Two parents without a criminal record, bold enough to do journalism to expose criminal Democrats, will rot in jail as their children bear the cost of lawfare.

Russiagate, January 6, Arctic Frost, the 2024 campaign spying – criminal feds must be punished for these attacks on Americans. But we have a five-alarm fire to extinguish: the Calks, the Castilleros, Mazzeis; all the still unknown Smiths and the Joneses, are still being assaulted today, and our Constitution is ablaze - because weaponized Washington never sleeps.  

 

Michael R. Caputo, a longtime advisor to President Donald J. Trump, worked on the 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns and served as HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the first Trump administration.