“The FBI tapped my phone” and those of other senators.”
What PolitiFact found
A September 2023 FBI document said a special agent conducted a preliminary search of data records for phones associated with some lawmakers, related to investigating 2020 election interference. The document did not say their phones were wiretapped. A Senate committee press release said the data showed who was called and when and the length of calls. The press release said the data did not include the calls’ content.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Josh Hawley (U.S. senator, R-Mo.) made this claim around 7 October 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 October 2025, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Josh Hawley has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/attorney-general-pam-bondi-testifies-to-s…
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