Russia Collusion Probe
The NY Times claims that the FBI’s Russian collusion probe of Trump wasn’t a “witch hunt” and that the DOJ has settled a “lawsuit with former F.B.I. officials targeted by Trump.”
IN FACT, Biden’s DOJ is giving $2 million of taxpayer money to FBI agents who targeted Trump. Here’s the record of their actions from official government documents:
- On May 3, 2016, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok texted FBI attorney Lisa Page that Trump had just won the Republican nomination and stated, “Now the pressure really starts to finish” the Clinton classified documents investigation. Page replied, “It sure does.”
- Two months later on July 18, Strzok wrote to Page, “Donald Trump is an enormous douche.”
- One day later on July 19, Page wrote to Strzok that it was “like living in a bad dream” to watch Trump speak at the Republican National Convention.
- One week later on July 25, Pollster Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight announced that polls were showing a major shift from Clinton to Trump, and for the first time, “Trump would be a narrow favorite, with a 57 percent chance of winning the Electoral College” if the election were “held today.”
- One day later on July 26, Hillary Clinton allegedly approved a “proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”
- One day later on July 27, Page wrote to Strzok, “Have we opened on him yet? Trump & Putin.”
- Four days later on July 31, the FBI used “unvetted hearsay information” to open a “Russia collusion” investigation in which the FBI offered a foreigner named Christopher Steele $1,000,000 of U.S. taxpayer money for dirt on Trump and his team.
- On that same day, Strzok texted Page, “And damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. … So super glad to be on this voyage with you.”
- Two days later on August 2, Strzok and another FBI agent met in London to pursue the Russia collusion investigation, and the FBI’s Assistant Legal Attaché in London said that Strzok told him something along the lines of, “There’s nothing to this, but we have to run it to ground.” The same FBI attaché wrote to Strzok’s partner about the evidence for the investigation, “Damn that’s thin,” and Strzok’s partner replied, “I know … it sucks.”
- Four days later on August 6, Page wrote to Strzok, “Trump should go f himself.” Strzok replied, “F Trump,” and Page replied, “And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.”
- Two days later on August 8, Page wrote to Strzok, “[Trump’s] not going to become president, right? Right?!”Strzok replied, “No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
- One week later on August 15, Strzok wrote to Page that “there’s no way” Trump “gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40”
- One month later on September 7, the CIA sent a note to Strzok and other FBI officials describing an alleged plot by Hillary Clinton to tie Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.” The FBI has been unable to produce any evidence that Strzok or anyone in the FBI took “any action” to investigate this matter.
- One month later on October 21, the FBI filed the first of four FISA warrant application to spy on a Trump adviser by submitting “inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported” allegations to the FISA Court, including “at least 17 significant errors or omissions” and “many additional errors in the Woods Procedures,” which “require that every factual assertion in a FISA application be ‘verified’.”
- One month later in November, Trump won the election.
- Three months later in February 2017, the New York Times reported that the FBI had received “phone records and intercepted calls” from the NSA showing that “members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.” In an FBI document about that article, Strzok wrote, “We are unaware of ANY Trump advisors engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials,” even after they asked the CIA and the NSA for such evidence. Yet, the FBI “declined to comment” on the Times’ story, thus letting the falsehood take root.
- Three months later in May 2017, Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to investigate the Russia collusion allegation, and Lisa page joined Mueller’s team.
- That same month, Strzok wrote to Page about her work on the Mueller probe and said, “God I suddenly want on this. You know why.” Page replied that she would “happily” leave Mueller’s team if Strzok wanted to join it.Strzok responded, “I’m torn. … I’m the best for it, but there are others who can do OK.”
- That summer, Page left Mueller’s team, and Strzok joined it until he was fired in December after his texts with Page were discovered.
- More than a year later in March 2019 — after years of rampant media and Democrat claims that Trump colluded with Russia — Mueller’s $32 million investigation reported that they “did not establish” or “identify evidence” that members of the “Trump Campaign” or “any U.S. persons” “conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
