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How fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok became the face of Mueller's Trump-Russia probe

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Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok became the public face of a two-year Russia investigation that President Trump loyalists say is filled with biased investigators…
Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok became the public face of a two-year Russia investigation that President Trump loyalists say is filled with biased investigators and bogus charges.
He started and led the probe into Mr. Trump and his associates. He also led the FBI’s internal resistance.
He is most famous for sending incendiary text messages to his FBI lover, attorney Lisa Page, ridiculing candidate Trump as a “f——— idiot” and speaking of plans to defeat him.
During the 2016 campaign, he talked of an “insurance policy” in case Mr. Trump became president. And he vowed to Ms. Page, “We’ll stop” him.
At a House hearing last month, he repeatedly denied his dislike for President Trump influenced his decision making. But Trump supporters say he took a number of questionable steps to ensnarl the Trump campaign in a long investigation.
The Strzok narrative:
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“ Strzok promised to stop Trump from becoming president before the investigation even began,” said Rep. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, who heads the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee.
As Mr. Strzok sat at the witness table, Mr. Gowdy said, “He talked, longingly, of Trump resigning two months after he was inaugurated and well before the special counsel investigation even began.
Strzok even talked about impeachment the day the special counsel was appointed.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired Mr. Strzok in August 2017 after Justice IG Michael Horowitz notified him of the agent’s explosive text messages. Mr. Horowitz is now investigating the FBI’s Trump probe, as is a U. S. attorney in Utah.
Some of Mr. Strzok ’s anti- Trump messages:

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