The president is angry that the texts between two romantically-involved FBI agents have disappeared. Donald Trump wants the missing messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page, and he wants them now. In an interesting turn, the man in the Oval Office did not blame the couple.
The two FBI employees allegedly spent a great deal of the text time dishing on the president, and Trump wants blood. They were working on the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election at the time that they sent their texts.
Then, Page left, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok from the team. Ironically, this move brought them to the attention of 45.
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The NY Daily News reported that the president tweeted:
‘In one of the biggest stories in a long time, the FBI says it is now missing five months worth of lovers Strzok – Page texts, perhaps 50,000, all in prime time. Wow!’
Then, the president tweeted:
‘Where are the 50,000 important text messages between FBI lovers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Blaming Samsung!’
After an extended rant, Trump settled on the South Korean mega-corporation, Samsung, to blame. The Justice Department claimed that the FBI had 50,000 messages on its servers. Last month, the Justice Department released hundreds of the couple’s texts when they were in the midst of their affair.
When Mueller discovered that the two had been communicating about Donald Trump in their texts, he removed them from the Russia probe. Many of those texts included negative comments about Trump while the presidential campaign was in full force.
After Trump found out about the released texts, he called them a “treasonous act.”
Strzok had been the lead counterintelligence officer and was also investigated the missing Hillary Clinton emails. The two FBI people did not limit their negative comments to Trump. They also criticized Clinton and other presidential candidates.
The FBI gave the legislators more texts, but told the lawmakers that a system glitch meant that texts between December 2016 and May 2017 were not stored correctly.
Assistant AG Stephen Boyd reported to Congress how many Samsung 5 mobile devices failed. The NY Daily News reported that he said:
‘(To) capture or store text messages due to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI’s collection capabilities.’
Some of the Republicans publicly accused the FBI of deleting them on purpose. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released the texts that remained available from Strzok and Page on Tuesday. During a Milwaukee radio show, Johnson said that he doubted Mueller’s investigation would find collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
Strzok said:
‘You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there.’
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Inspector General’s office will investigate what happened to the missing texts.
Trump tweeted:
‘Even Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News CNN agrees: “Trump World and WH sources dancing in end zone: Trump wins again…Schumer and Dems caved…gambled and lost.’ Thank you for your honesty Jim!’
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The president’s divisive language inspired a Michigan man to phone CNN headquarters and threaten a mass killing, because the network was “fake news.”
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