A seven-figure settlement between the Justice Department and a disgraced former FBI agent appeared to convey government employees would benefit from “anything that will hurt the Trump campaign.”
If Attorney General Merrick Garland’s aim was to tamp down on allegations of a weaponized federal government, a Friday settlement from the DOJ did little to help that case. After their affair became a matter of public record, and the subject of a stage play, former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page walked away with padded wallets in a decision viewed by many as little more than Joe Biden’s administration laundering $1.2 million.
The New York Times reported Friday that attorneys for Strzok, who had been fired from the agency after his anti-President Donald Trump texts with his then-lover, then-FBI attorney Page, had been exposed, had confirmed the sum he received in the settlement stemming back to a 2019 suit that asserted his privacy had been violated by sharing those messages.
By the newspapers account, “Their texts incited a political firestorm after the Justice Department in December 2017 invited reporters to review them at night before handing them over to Congress. Then a senior F.B.I. counterintelligence agent who helped oversee the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia in 2016, Mr. Strzok exchanged inflammatory messages with Ms. Page, a bureau lawyer involved in the inquiry. Republicans seized on the texts to try to discredit the investigation.”
Hamlin Lincoln Law Institute Director of Litigation Ted Frank boiled down the report and posted to X, “Biden administration launders $1.2M payment to Peter Strzok (and likely a similar payment to Lisa Page) through settlement of likely-doomed lawsuit.”
Commentator Katie Pavlich boiled down the decision to a matter of election year politics as she asserted, “Strzok was going to lose this lawsuit because like a dum dum he sent the ‘insurance policy’ text messages on a government device, where he knew he had no privacy rights. Biden’s DOJ issues this settlement just in case Trump were to win in November. Corrupt.”
……..Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) posited from his personal account, “Why do taxpayers owe Pete Strzok $1.2m for banging a co-worker and bringing politics to work? I know a lot of people who would do this for free.”
To the congressman’s point, “HARDFACTS” co-host Jeff Carlson contended, “Strzok was fired for cause. His lawsuit was going nowhere. This was a payoff. And the purchase of Strzok’s silence. The DOJ needs to be gutted. Top to bottom. Like virtually all of our federal agencies, simple reform won’t work.”
Meanwhile, Carlson’s co-host Mahncke sounded off, “This might be a good time to remind everyone that the release of the text messages between Strzok and Page (for which Strzok just received $1.2 million), crucially revealed that the FBI was secretly going after Trump *before* they initiated the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
Strzok helped launch an investigation under false pretenses, spied on the Trump campaign, and lied to the FISA court. His belligerent psychotic behavior before Congress was a real shitshow.
The full extent of Stzrok’s corruption was outlined in the 2016 IG report.
His notes regarding the setup of General Michael Flynn, HERE
All this shit can be traced back to Hillary’s campaign. They went to insane lengths in an attempt to subvert the election. The coup plot itself went all the way to the Obama regime’s Oval Office.
A clique of political insiders—including members of the DOJ , FBI , and the CIA—conspired in acts of sedition.
Where’s the indictments? All of the perps in this conspiracy should be in orange jumpsuits.
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