Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok is scheduled to talk to the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday behind closed doors.
President Donald Trump, however, said Monday night that he wants the world to hear from the agent who hated him enough to reassure his lover that together they could keep him from winning the White House.
The panel subpoenaed Strzok following the release of a Justice Department inspector general report that revealed bombshell anti-Trump texts shared between him and FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Peter Strzok, once a powerful FBI agent once in leadership roles with both the Hillary Clinton email probe and the Mueller Russia investigation, was demoted, stripped of his security clearance and escorted from FBI hearquarters following revelations about his anti-Trump texting
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Strzok’s lover Lisa Page texted him during the 2016 campaign: ‘[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!’ Strzok responded: ‘No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it’
Both Strzok and Page worked on the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, and then later were assigned to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
Strzok held senior roles in both investigations.
One centerpiece of the IG report was an August 2016 conversation in which Page texted Strzok saying, ‘[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!’
‘No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,’ Strzok responded.
Trump tweeted Monday night as Air Force One circled above South Carolina waiting for dangerous storms to subside: ‘The hearing of Peter Strzok and the other hating frauds at the FBI & DOJ should be shown to the public on live television, not a closed door hearing that nobody will see.’
‘We should expose these people for what they are – there should be total transparency!’ he wrote.
Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will lead the Strzok grilling on Wednesday, but the public won’t see any of it
Strzok, a seasoned counterintelligence investigator, was demoted this year from Mueller’s team to a human resources job after derogatory text messages were discovered. Page had already left.
Strzok was recently escorted from the FBI building as his disciplinary process winds through the system, his lawyer has said. He also lost his security clearance.
That attorney said last week that Strzok was willing to testify before any congressional committee that invited him.
But the House Judiciary Committee became impatient when the anti-Trump agent dragged his feet on setting a specific date.
Ultimately committee members issued an order for him to appear on June 27.
Trump has blasted Strzok as a ‘sick loser’ and expressed shock that the FBI was still paying him a salary.
‘I am amazed that Peter Strzok is still at the FBI, and so is everybody else that read that report,’ the president said after DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his findings.
‘Peter Strzok should have been fired a long time ago, and others should have been fired,’ he added.
Horowitz wrote that Strzrok’s texting conduct ‘cast a cloud’ over the FBI’s actions.
But he cautioned that he found no hard evidence ‘to connect the political views expressed in these messages to the specific investigative decisions.’