Michael Caputo, a longtime Trump ally and former HHS official, revealed on Thursday that he remains entangled in an open FBI investigation tied to his 2020 documentary on Ukraine, which exposed corruption within the Biden family. Caputo claims the surveillance reached into the 2024 Trump campaign, proving the Russia hoax never died but mutated into a permanent weapon of lawfare. His demand: shut down the investigation, arrest the architects, and dismantle the FBI’s corrupt machinery.
Steve Bannon opened the WarRoom segment by framing Caputo as one of Russiagate’s hardest hit victims, a man whose career, family, health, and finances were wrecked by years of politically driven investigations. Caputo confirmed that what started with the 2016 Russia hoax has never ended. Instead, it metastasized, running through 2020 and even into the 2024 presidential campaign, targeting Trump staffers and allies with secret subpoenas, interrogations, and surveillance.
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MICHAEL CAPUTO: They spied on the 2024 campaign. We’re digging up proof they spied in 2016, and we're going to get to evidence of 2020. The FBI has had an investigation into me for 4+ years all for exposing Hunter & Joe Biden’s Ukraine cash. This is bigger than we ever thought. pic.twitter.com/6jltAw6lrP
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) August 28, 2025
Caputo recounted receiving a Google user alert in March 2025 showing that the FBI had classified subpoenas for his emails, texts, and calls. The probe, launched after his film The Ukraine Hoax accused Joe and Hunter Biden of corruption, remains open four and a half years later. Judicial Watch has been forced to sue on his behalf because the FBI won’t close the file, using it as an excuse to deny FOIA requests.
The personal toll has been devastating: financial paralysis (no mortgages, no global entry clearance), health collapse (cancer at the same time Paul Manafort’s deputy died from it), and years of family trauma. Caputo likened himself and fellow Russiagate survivors to "cigarette butts in an ashtray” burned out, but not gone.
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MICHAEL CAPUTO: A week ago I learned the FBI harassed my cameraman, interrogated him three times, and threatened jail if he told me. This wasn’t 2021. This was 2024. They ghosted him only after Biden dropped out. The Ukraine hoax is still alive, and my case is STILL OPEN. pic.twitter.com/bYblShKlvt
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) August 28, 2025
Bannon pressed him on solutions. Caputo’s blunt response: investigations aren’t enough—arrests are needed. He named Andrew Weissmann, John Brennan, and James Comey as the top of the list. Caputo went further, calling the FBI a "spy state virus” spreading across the globe, with lawfare now infecting Brazil, the Balkans, and beyond. His prescription: "shatter the FBI into a thousand pieces.”
Despite the pain, Caputo remains defiant, crediting President Trump, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Tulsi Gabbard for keeping the pressure on. He insists this is not just his fight; dozens of Trump world figures remain under active investigation, victims of a permanent regime that refuses to surrender power.
The WarRoom conversation underscored a chilling reality: Russiagate was not a one-off; it institutionalized political spying as standard operating procedure. Caputo’s story provides smoking gun evidence that federal agencies carried out their campaign of surveillance and harassment all the way through 2024, even as President Trump reclaimed the White House. Unless arrests occur and institutions are dismantled, the "virus of lawfare” will continue to spread unchecked.
Caputo’s survival is a testament to his resilience, but his story also serves as a warning. The Russia hoax wasn’t just about 2016; it’s a permanent weapon of the Deep State, aimed directly at Trump, his movement, and anyone who dares expose the Biden syndicate. Caputo’s demand is simple: End the investigation. Arrest the perpetrators. Break the machine before it breaks America.
For more context, watch this Thursday segment:
