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FBI Fires Peter Strzok, Disgraced Dishonest Disloyal Democrat Agent Who Led Russia Probe

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The FBI has fired Peter Strzok, the agent notorious for sending 
biased text messages about then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 
while investigating both Trump and his opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Strzok’s lawyer, Aitan Goelman, said in a statement that the 
bureau fired Strzok on Aug. 10. The FBI, which does not usually 
comment on personnel actions below the executive level, declined 
to comment.

According to Goelman, FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich fired 
Strzok. The bureau’s disciplinary branch recommended that Strzok 
should be suspended for 60 days and removed from supervisory 
duties, but Bowdich overruled that finding, Goelman said.

“The decision to terminate was taken in response to political 
pressure and to punish Special Agent Strzok for political speech 
protected by the 1st Amendment, not on a fair and independent 
examination of the facts,” Goelman said in the statement.

Strzok exchanged thousands of text messages with FBI lawyer Lisa 
Page during the course of an extramarital affair. In the texts, 
Strzok called Trump an ” idiot,” said that Clinton should win 
“100,000,000 – 0,” discussed an “insurance policy” in the 
“unlikely event” that Trump would win, vowed to “stop” Trump 
from becoming president, and spoke of impeachment days after 
joining special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Strzok wrote some of the messages while investigating Clinton’s 
use of a private email server and the rest while investigating 
allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, 
including as part of the special counsel probe. Mueller removed 
Strzok from the special counsel team upon learning of Strzok’s 
text messages.

In a message on Twitter, Trump suggested that the Clinton 
investigation should be redone.

“Just fired Agent Strzok, formerly of the FBI, was in charge of 
the Crooked Hillary Clinton sham investigation. It was a total 
fraud on the American public and should be properly redone!” 
Trump wrote on Twitter on Aug. 13.


Donald J. Trump
?
@realDonaldTrump
 Just fired Agent Strzok, formerly of the FBI, was in charge of 
the Crooked Hillary Clinton sham investigation. It was a total 
fraud on the American public and should be properly redone!

9:09 AM - Aug 13, 2018
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In another message, Trump asked if the special counsel 
investigation, which took over Strzok’s probe, should be ended 
given Strzok’s termination.

“The list of bad players in the FBI & DOJ [Department of 
Justice] gets longer & longer,” Trump wrote on Aug. 13. “Based 
on the fact that Strzok was in charge of the Witch Hunt, will it 
be dropped? It is a total Hoax. No Collusion, No Obstruction – I 
just fight back!”


Donald J. Trump
?
@realDonaldTrump
 Agent Peter Strzok was just fired from the FBI - finally. The 
list of bad players in the FBI & DOJ gets longer & longer. Based 
on the fact that Strzok was in charge of the Witch Hunt, will it 
be dropped? It is a total Hoax. No Collusion, No Obstruction - I 
just fight back!

9:04 AM - Aug 13, 2018
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In June, the Justice Department inspector general concluded in a 
report on the Clinton email case that the bias expressed by 
Strzok and a handful of FBI employees “cast a cloud” over the 
probe. However, the inspector general did not find evidence that 
Strzok’s bias influenced any investigative decision in the 
Clinton case. The inspector general is still investigating FBI 
and DOJ actions in the Russian probe.

Strzok issued a response on his Twitter account shortly after 
news of his termination broke. The spokeswoman for Strzok’s 
lawyer confirmed the authenticity of the Twitter account to the 
Daily Caller.

“Deeply saddened by this decision. It has been an honor to serve 
my country and work with the fine men and women of the FBI,” 
Strzok wrote.

Strzok accompanied his post with a link to a GoFundMe donation 
page, which raised more than $30,000 in four hours. The page 
describes Strzok as a “proud husband,” a veteran, and a hero.

President Trump has repeatedly lambasted Strzok and other senior 
officials who ran the bureau during the investigation of his 
campaign in 2016 and 2017, including then-FBI Director James 
Comey and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

“Russian Collusion with the Trump Campaign, one of the most 
successful in history, is a TOTAL HOAX. The Democrats paid for 
the phony and discredited Dossier which was, along with Comey, 
McCabe, Strzok and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, used to 
begin the Witch Hunt. Disgraceful!” Trump wrote on Twitter on 
Aug. 1.

Page resigned from the bureau in May. Trump fired Comey last 
year. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March. FBI 
Chief Counsel James Baker and Chief of Staff James Rybicki, both 
of whom were mentioned in the Page-Strzok texts, left the bureau.

“Never seen a federal agency where that’s happened,” Rep. Jim 
Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote on Twitter.

Strzok’s FBI team along with senior bureau and DOJ officials 
obtained an intrusive warrant to spy on former Trump campaign 
volunteer Carter Page over the course of 12 months. The secret 
court application for that warrant was based almost entirely on 
an unverified opposition research dossier. The dossier was 
compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele. The Clinton 
campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for the 
dossier.

The officials who signed off on the secret court warrant 
applications failed to mention to the judges that Trump’s 
opponent in the election, Hillary Clinton, funded the dossier.

Like Strzok, Steele was also biased against Trump and wanted to 
do anything to “prevent” Trump from becoming president. The FBI 
cut ties with Steele in November 2016 for leaking to the media. 
Recently released emails between Steele and senior Justice 
Department official Bruce Ohr show that Steele continued to feed 
information to the FBI long after the bureau prohibited him from 
collecting intelligence on its behalf.

According to Ohr’s notes, he met with Strzok and Page less than 
three weeks after Steele was terminated. Steele continued to use 
Ohr as a back channel to the FBI. The pair kept in contact for 
more than a year after the FBI terminated Steele.

Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for the same firm that hired 
Steele. The firm, Fusion GPS, received money from Russia for a 
different project while Steele was compiling the dossier. 
Congressional investigators have called on the couple to 
testify. Ohr’s hearing is on Aug. 28.

In July, Strzok defended himself for hours in testimony before a 
joint session of the House judiciary and government oversight 
committees. Strzok repeatedly asserted that “bias” is different 
“from personal political opinion.” At the hearing, Strzok 
refused to answer basic questions about the Russia 
investigation, citing restrictions placed on him by the FBI due 
to an ongoing investigation.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-fires-peter-strzok-poster-
child-for-troubled-russia-probe_2622690.html

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