Allies of President Trump are picking apart the texts released from Peter Strzok, the FBI official demoted from the Russian investigation, but one in particular is raising eyebrows.
What did the text say?
The text in question was an interaction between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
...in a text from August 15, 2016, Strzok tells Page: "I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office" - an apparent reference to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe - "that there's no way he 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 . . . . " Page does not appear to have responded, according to records reviewed by CNN
While many of the other texts express disgust and anger at Trump and his followers, this text exchange appears to refer to acts that they may have committed in order to prevent Trump's election.
Strzok was demoted from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference and alleged collusion with the Trump campaign over the anti-Trump texts.
Later it was discovered that he had a large role in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private server and her use of sensitive government information.
What was the reaction?
Wall Street columnist Kimberley Strassel noted that the media was focusing on other texts and ignoring that one.
Judge Jeanine had some specific words for the FBI and the Department of Justice when it comes to ridding the department of corruption - and she made sure they were understood.
The judge claimed that there had been a "whole host of individuals" that were starkly against President Donald Trump, according to Mediaite.
In her opening statement on Fox News, Pirro unleashed her thoughts on what she called "corruption and lawlessness."
"There is a cleansing needed in our FBI and department of justice - it needs to be cleansed of individuals who should not just be fired. But who need to be taken out in cuffs," she said
However, while Pirro described the departments as going after only the president, she called them out for allegedly protecting former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, questioned why an anti-Trump FBI agent had supervision over the Clinton email investigation.
During a Thursday interview with Fox News, Gowdy pointed out the various problematic things that Agent Peter Strzok had done while overseeing the Clinton and Trump-Russia investigations.
Gowdy blasted Strozk's decision to change the wording of Clinton's behavior with her private email server from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless."
"It's really difficult to say, 'we're not gonna prosecute you' when we use the precise words, so he changed it to extremely careless," he explained. "There is no difference-the only difference is they didn't want to use the wording in the statute."
Two FBI officials who worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation exchanged text messages last year in which they appear to have discussed ways to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president.
"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office - that there's no way [Trump] gets elected - but I'm afraid we can't take that risk," FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok wrote in a cryptic text message to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.
"It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40," Strzok wrote in the text, dated Aug. 15, 2016.
Andy is likely Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
The text message is one of 375 released Tuesday night ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
Several congressional panels have sought the text messages since their existence was revealed earlier this month. Strzok, who was a top investigator on both the Trump investigation and the Clinton email probe, was kicked off of Mueller's team over the summer after the text messages were discovered.
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Strzok Called Trump An 'Idiot' In Text To Fellow Special Counsel Investigator
10:47 PM 12/12/2017
FBI agent Peter Strzok referred to President Donald Trump as an "idiot" in a series of texts exchanged with then-fellow special counsel investigator Lisa Page during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"I just saw my first Bernie Sander bumper sticker. Made me want to key the car," Page, now a senior FBI lawyer, wrote in a message to Strzok, released by the Department of Justic Tuesday night.
"He's an idiot like Trump. Figure they cancel each other out," Strzok replied.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein released 375 of Strzok's Trump-related text messages to the House Intelligence Committee. The communications span over a year, from Aug. 16, 2015 to Dec. 1, 2016. Rosenstein is scheduled to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday
Strzok, who was dismissed from from Mueller's investigation in the early summer after DOJ officials learned he sent messages to a colleague mocking Trump, also referred to the president as a "loathsome human" and said "God, Hillary should win 100,000,000 - 0," in a string of March 2016 texts text messages obtained by USA Today.
Page's detail on Mueller's team concluded before the text messages were unearthed during an Office of the Inspector General inquiry into political bias on the special counsel.
Jim Jordan pushes FBI on ties between Peter Strzok, Trump surveillance
Rep. Jim Jordan on Thursday pushed FBI Director Christopher Wray to explain possible links between Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who was removed from the Russia probe after revealing his anti-Trump sentiments, and the FBI's push to surveil members of the Trump transition team.
Jordan, R-Ohio, said he wants a special counsel to investigate how a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant was obtained to surveil members of President Trump's campaign team. And at a Thursday hearing at the House Judiciary Committee, Jordan asked FBI Director Christopher Wray to say whether the partisan Strzok used a disputed dossier on Trump, paid for by Democrats, to justify the FISA warrant.
