FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Lawyer Lisa Page lost their jobs, they feel, because text messages between the two became public in which they expressed fears of then Donald Trump winning the 2016 election…
The two where also having a affair…
They came under blistering criticism from Trump when he found out about the texts from FBI officals that were probing a possible Trump/Russia connection….
We NOW KNOW that the Russian’s WERE working to help Trump get elected , but we have no proof Trump worked directly with them….
Trump (So is FBI Director Wray) has been ordered to answer questions in the civil case by a judge.…
But?
There IS a question about ‘executive privilege’ AGAIN….
If President Biden waives it as he has in other Trump litigation?
Trump has to do the Q & A…….
This is just ANOTHER legal case Trump has to navigate going forward….
The list IS LONG……
A federal judge has agreed to permit former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to take sworn testimony from former President Donald Trump for two hours as part of their long-running lawsuits related to Strzok’s firing in 2018 after Trump repeatedly and publicly pilloried the pair.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled on Thursday that Strzok and Page — whose text messages disparaging then-candidate Trump cast a pall over the FBI’s investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia — would also be allowed to depose FBI Director Christopher Wray for a similar two-hour period on a limited set of topics….
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Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama, also stressed that she had not yet considered all potential objections to the demands for testimony from Trump and Wray. That could include arguments by Trump that he has the unilateral right as a former president to assert executive privilege.
Trump has spent years publicly assailing Strzok and Page for their disparaging private messages about him, claiming they proved that FBI bias fueled the Russia probe, despite independent reviews that failed to substantiate those claims. Strzok was fired amid the controversy, and Page resigned. Strzok is contesting his dismissal, and both are claiming invasion of their privacy over the manner in which the Justice Department released hundreds of their text messages.
In the suits, Strzok and Page contend that Trump and his Justice Department appointees were carrying out a political vendetta.
The Justice Department and the FBI have both denied that Trump’s public attacks played any role in the bureau’s decision to fire Strzok, saying it was a decision arrived at by career officials and carried out without political pressure….
jamesb says
Update…
Lisa Rubin
@lawofruby
TRUMP DEPOSITION: Despite a motion for reconsideration by DOJ, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the D.C. federal court has ordered that Trump must sit for a limited deposition in Pete Strzok and Lisa Page’s lawsuit relating to the violation of their privacy/retaliation.
jamesb says
The guy just goes from one court and case to another…..