Anti-Trump FBI officials texted about 'impeachment,' 'case of our lives' in Russia probe
by Paul Bedard | Jan 23, 2018, 3:12 PM
The former FBI counterintelligence deputy chief assigned to oversee the the probe into alleged Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government seemed to suggested it could end in impeachment, according to new phone texts turned over by the FBI.
Peter Strzok, in an email to a top FBI lawyer who he was also involved with, mentioned “impeachment†as he texted about taking the position with former FBI Chief Robert Muller.
In a text to Lisa Page, the top FBI lawyer and his mistress, he also called the Russia probe historic.
At 12:13 am on May 19, two days after Mueller was appointed to head the investigation, Strzok indicates that initially he didn’t want to take a position on the probe. “My answer is no way,†he texted Page, according to one of several texts provided to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee headed by Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson.
“And then I think…†he tests, “A case which will be in the history books.â€
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