Trump Calls Strzok, Page Texts ‘Bombshells’
- 6 years ago
New texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have surfaced, and President Trump is suggesting the messages are shocking and significant.
New texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have surfaced, and President Trump is suggesting the messages are shocking and significant. "NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!" he wrote in a Wednesday morning tweet. Fox News reports that one dated September 2, 2016 is an exchange about Hillary Clinton's email investigation and notes that former President Obama "wants to know everything we're doing." It appears to reference the compilation of talking points for then-FBI director James Comey's upcoming meeting with Obama. The media outlet says the "text raises questions about Obama's personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation," but some aren't as ready to draw that conclusion. A writer for the Daily Beast pointed out in a tweet, "This text came three days before Obama confronted Putin about election-meddling. It's not exactly a mystery why he'd want a full account of what the FBI knew." The texts between Strzok and Page have fueled a number of theories, in large part due to the disparaging comments about Trump made in some of them and Strzok's involvement with the Clinton and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. In certain circles, the combination of these factors is considered evidence that a faction in the FBI has been conspiring against Trump for some time, notes the Huffington Post. That theory has gathered critics of its own, with some suggesting the focus on the texts is nothing more than an attempt to delegitimize Muller's Trump-Russia investigation.
New texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have surfaced, and President Trump is suggesting the messages are shocking and significant. "NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!" he wrote in a Wednesday morning tweet. Fox News reports that one dated September 2, 2016 is an exchange about Hillary Clinton's email investigation and notes that former President Obama "wants to know everything we're doing." It appears to reference the compilation of talking points for then-FBI director James Comey's upcoming meeting with Obama. The media outlet says the "text raises questions about Obama's personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation," but some aren't as ready to draw that conclusion. A writer for the Daily Beast pointed out in a tweet, "This text came three days before Obama confronted Putin about election-meddling. It's not exactly a mystery why he'd want a full account of what the FBI knew." The texts between Strzok and Page have fueled a number of theories, in large part due to the disparaging comments about Trump made in some of them and Strzok's involvement with the Clinton and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. In certain circles, the combination of these factors is considered evidence that a faction in the FBI has been conspiring against Trump for some time, notes the Huffington Post. That theory has gathered critics of its own, with some suggesting the focus on the texts is nothing more than an attempt to delegitimize Muller's Trump-Russia investigation.