Fact checking Hawley’s claims that the FBI ‘tapped’ his and other senators’ phones Politics Oct 9, 2025 3:31 PM EDT

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact .

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said the Biden administration’s FBI tapped several Republican senators’ phones while investigating 2020 election interference.

“Yesterday we learned that the FBI tapped my phone … tapped Lindsey Graham’s phone, tapped Marsha Blackburn’s phone, tapped five other phones of United States senators,” Hawley said Oct. 7 during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Justice Department with Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Hawley repeated the statement the same day on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” show.

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