I'm really perplexed by the denial that two FBI agents who despised Trump were talking about stopping a Presidential candidate from being elected.
From ABC News:
More than 100 pages of newly-recovered text messages show that former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page used authorized channels within the FBI to help shape what they viewed as misguided media reports, and they expressed deep concern about politically-motivated leaks they suspected came from outside the FBI and Justice Department.
...Before being relegated to the FBI's human resources division last year and then fired from the FBI last month, Strzok helped lead the agency's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and any possible contacts between Trump associates and Russian operatives. Page was an attorney for the FBI.
Batch of new Strzok-Page texts shows FBI efforts to shape news reports - ABC News
John Solomon, writing at
The Hill 7-19-2018, called Strzok and Page the "poster children for the next “Don’t Text and Investigate” public service ads airing soon at an FBI office near you" (and yes, I know...eeeek! Boo! Hiss! John Solomon! Oh, well, then, dismissed!):
Their extraordinary texting affair on their government phones has given the FBI a black eye, laying bare a raw political bias brought into the workplace that agents are supposed to check at the door when they strap on their guns and badges.
It is no longer in dispute that they held animus for Donald Trump, who was a subject of their Russia probe, or that they openly discussed using the powers of their office to “stop” Trump from becoming president. The only question is whether any official acts they took in the Russia collusion probe were driven by those sentiments.
The Justice Department’s inspector general is endeavoring to answer that question.
Opinion: One FBI text message in Russia probe that should alarm every American | TheHill