President Donald Trump called for an end to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation after the firing of FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Strzok started the illegal Rigged Witch Hunt – why isn’t this so-called “probe” ended immediately? Why aren’t these angry and conflicted Democrats instead looking at Crooked Hillary?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
Trump has been tweeting animatedly about Strzok’s firing, citing analysis from guests on the Fox News Channel and its ties to the Mueller investigation.
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch: “The Strzok firing is as much about the Mueller operation as anything else. There would be no Mueller Special Councel to investigate so called collusion but for the machinations of Strzok & his colleagues at the top levels of the FBI. We know this…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
….guy was corrupt and had anti-Trump animus. Strzok and others at the FBI should be criminally investigated for the way the conducted this investigation. Instead, Mueller is pretending nothing went wrong. He used Strzok, he used the Clinton DNC Dossier…the whole thing….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
….should be shut down. The Strzok firing shows that the fundamental underpinnings of the investigation were corrupt. It should be shut down by the courts or by honest prosecutors.” Thank you Judicial Watch, I couldn’t have said it better myself!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
Strzok revealed his firing via his attorney on Monday morning saying, “Late Friday afternoon, the Deputy Director of the FBI overruled the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and departed from established precedent by firing 21-year FBI veteran Peter Strzok.”
Strzok’s text messages to former FBI lawyer and mistress Lisa Page revealed significant bias against then-candidate Donald Trump and even one in which he pledged “we’ll stop” him from becoming president. Strzok played a central role in the investigation of the Trump 2016 campaign and its alleged ties to the Russian government along with the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.