FBI Pays $2M to Strzok, Ex-Lover for Released Anti-Trump Texts

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...sed-anti-trump-texts

he FBI will pay disgraced former FBI official Peter Strzok and his former lover Lisa Page millions in a settlement over the release of their anti-Trump text messages, CNN reported on Friday.

Strzok will receive $1.2 million, while Page will get $800,000 after the bureau released email exchanges that exposed their anti-Trump bias during the 2016 presidential campaign. Such bias ultimately ignited the now-defunct Russian collusion hoax probe.

The infamous messages between Page and Strzok, both married at the time, showed them discussing ways to “stop” Trump, whom they labeled an “idiot.” The two also backed Hillary Clinton, the twice-failed presidential candidate, in text messages.

The disturbing display of bias fueled concerns about political bias and discriminatory behavior against Trump, reaching a climax after FBI agents aggressively raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.

The messages were first released by then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to counter selective leaks undermining public trust in the DOJ. Fast forward to 2024, the settlement stipulates that the release of the messages violated the Privacy Act.

Despite his own bias, Strzok claimed that the FBI released his text messages for political purposes.

“While I have been vindicated by this result, my fervent hope remains that our institutions of justice will never again play politics with the lives of their employees,” he claimed, ignoring the bias he exhibited during the Mueller investigation.

Special Counsel John Durham, appointed in 2020 by then-Attorney General Bill Barr, revealed that Strzok opened the investigation into allegations of Russian collusion despite his “hostile feelings toward Trump.”

Moreover, Durham’s report highlighted that the investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, was initiated without interviewing those who provided the initial information or assessing internal FBI intelligence.

“Had it done so,” Durman noted, the FBI would have learned there was no evidence to back the Steele Dossier’s allegations.

“The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign,” Durham wrote in its final report.

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Originally posted by 6guns:...
So the question is, if residents aren’t allowed to fly drones 30 miles from Mar-a-Lago, why was the gunman permitted to operate his drone just meters from where Trump would be standing?

(edited to add, originally I began a response to this, but some more words got stuck on that thought...)


If one uses specific apps to control the drone, they are "tied" to controlled airspace and can be "filtered" and unable to operate.

Those are generally registered drones, under The Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management ( UTM ) system.

Those less than a bit over 1/2 pound may not be affected, and drones can be used with several controllers that are not affected if not registered on the system.

So, Crooks, who had no issue with violating all manner of laws, and intent on murder, would not fly a drone because someone might object or he would be breaking any laws?

You'll need some thicker tinfoil.

I like how those that want this to be some Illuminati type thing, will not some out and state it straight up, but post innuendo and "other people's 'theories'" in an effort to keep the beat going.


My take has been and will be, a single frustrated and likely mentally affected person being 20 years old and his egg still half cooked, chose to try and assassinate DJT, and/or create a greater death/injury to a large number of people to "make his name", because that is what almost every one of these people do. That is their "motive", they are sick in the mind, angry, frustrated, full of anxiety and some degree of paranoia and cannot express themselves in an acceptable and healthy manner. They see themselves as "the only one" in their mind that is dealing with shit in life.

So, self absorbed as to not have the ability to connect with another in any meaningful manner.


Add to that, friends and families that are aware, but either fear the shunning if they speak out, or the "hassle" they might endure if they report and "invite" the "system" into their lives.

*Then the fact that in such a public event, not everyone or everything can be checked with 100% certainty, and add on top of that, failures of agencies that are rife with DEI, or simply not educated on how to properly secure a public venue, the lack of overall and integrated communication, levels of authority, responsibilities and the myriad of variables in such an enviornment.

It takes years of training, study, "find and fix" to develop organized co-operation, especially when mixing up separate agencies with their own "communication, operations methods and procedures".


You want a perfect storm? This is how you get one.

I was involved in a very large such operation, that was a spectacular failure, mostly because of the above*.
Out of that became a "Phoenix" that has not let the preceding failure be in vain.

I know some things, because I have been involved in a great number of them, and I paid attention to people. How they act, how they think, what they are presented and what they take away, and how they do or do not apply those things.

From this I have observed the great failure to put the right people in the right places for the right reasons, and how the wrong people are put in the wrong places for the wrong reasons by the wrong people.

I have also seen the right people, fight in spite of all of this, and realized that it it not an 80-20 split, where 20% are the ones "doing it all", but that split is even greater and the number of people that "save the bacon" are much less than many realize.

No, I do not believe there was a "conspiracy" in the sense that is often proffered, but I do believe and have observed people in groups affecting the outcome of many things due to their own selfish choices, decisions and putting people in subordinate roles in position of doing things they think they should. (the "wrong person" syndrome).

Examples;
-Someone withholding or providing false/inaccurate/partial/misleading information that others would react differently had they known that information was not factual/true.
-Organizations with overall "Culture" or permitting "Culture" to exist within areas of the organization that are detrimental to the good order, operation and intent of the organization and its mission.
-Failure of proper utilization of personnel. ("wrong people").

Unfortunately, I would lose the audience to be exhaustive, because I know I can be exhausting, so I cannot elaborate to the degree that the complexity of "how did this happen?".

But, if I did, it would be apparent that it was no "conspiracy", as much as people doing people things and shit happened because- people.

A great many already understand what I am saying, as they also have observed/experienced many/all/more of the same in life.

And I personally believe that those who seek or are drawn to "secret/inside conspiracies" that are Art Bell-ish in nature, fear the reality that life is fraught with danger and one cannot expect to get out of this existence alive.

Those who are secure in the fact that the breath we breathe in this instant, is not guaranteed in the next, and we give no more than a passing nod to that in life at one point when we realize this, are no longer worried with it, and get to living life.

As Andy Dufresne said: "I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."

Fear is dying in the moment. Live fearful and your dying continually.
No fear is living in the moment. Living without fear is living continually.

I am here to live life. And fight to live without fear.


If you made it here, thanks for enduring.

-sm

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
The plot twists again.... A shame the FBI has to be corrected with a botched conclusion.

And yet in the correction they still include “…or bullet fragment”. Still trying to minimize the event.

Isn't the main point that somebody SHOT AT HIM? I don't understand why it seems to matter so much to people whether what HIT him was a bullet or a fragment of a bullet, or even shrapnel from a bullet strike.

Because they the mentally defectives could claim it was “much ado about nothing” and “Trump is just grandstanding” instead of “our entire security apparatus is grossly incompetent and needs to be disbanded, reformed, with every agent forced to reapply.

I don’t know if the military would be the right source for the cultural seed of the FBI - I do think whatever the protective service is, and whatever the service which looks for people counterfeiting documents - which should probably just be a division of whatever replaces the FBI.

(We will still need someone focusing on counterfeit documents, and someone to act as a clearing house for multi-state criminal investigations. We will still need a foreign relations department and a foreign intelligence service - but I think State and the CIA etc also need a complete overhaul.)

If Trump wins strongly enough, it will be interesting to see if the Stupid party will actually back a total overhaul of the bureaucracy.

I hope Trump takes a queue from Javier Milei and immediately eliminates a whole slew of bankrupt Federal agencies and departments.

Geez, all I did was post a published article about drones.

Of course I realize criminals won't follow laws and who knows how old or technical his drone was?

But I appreciate the education!

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Isn't the main point that somebody SHOT AT HIM?

Thank you!

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Originally posted by Expert308:
Isn't the main point that somebody SHOT AT HIM?

You are of course correct. But your/our being correct doesn’t matter.

What matters about being able to publicly question—however inanely—whether he was injured by an intact bullet is how it is perceived by the nation of sheep within the (somewhat) larger overall Nation. There are literally millions who hate DJT and will desperately seize on anything that seems to validate their beliefs. We see that sort of thing in the continuous lies spewed forth by the advocates of the Left: It doesn’t matter whether the lies are the least bit believable on any rational basis, all that matters is that they reinforce the sheep’s hopes and desires.

Being able to believe that DJT wasn’t injured directly by a bullet allows them to convince themselves that it wasn’t an actual murder attempt. That is obviously totally irrational, but to reiterate, that doesn’t matter. All that matters is whether they can believe it.

Something similar I’ve run across is the apparent claim that the shooting wasn’t a serious attempt to kill President Trump, and that’s why the bullet only grazed his ear: It was enough to produce dramatic pictures, and that was its only purpose. The fact that the idea is arrant nonsense for a large number of clearly objective reasons won’t change the minds of all those who unquestioningly accept it as further validation of their beliefs about DJT in general.

All this is nothing new, though. I was reminded of the fact when reading the book that I’m just finishing, Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice Isserman. Countless followers of that secular theocracy willfully blinded themselves to the horrors perpetrated by Stalin and the rest of the Soviet leadership and organizations. And that is only one of many similar examples throughout history.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Geez, all I did was post a published article about drones.

Of course I realize criminals won't follow laws and who knows how old or technical his drone was?

But I appreciate the education!

The article was conspiracy nonsense.

Yes sir. I'll be more careful next time.

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Originally posted by bald1:
I hope Trump takes a queue from Javier Milei and immediately eliminates a whole slew of bankrupt Federal agencies and departments.

Yes. He should CLEAN HOUSE of ANYONE that was appointed by a commie.

Not just the socialist appointees but the real problem and the biggest danger is the unelected permanent staffers of all the organizations that are really running the show.

It’s hard to fire a federal ‘civil servant’ but it is infinitely easier to simply eliminate entire departments and divisions.

Why do we need a federal department if education when every state and community have their own school boards.

Similarly eliminate the EPA and start over by making it a clearing house for information since every state had its own environmental protection organizations.

Anyone in any agency who’s sole function was to write rules and regulations should be fired by eliminating their divisions.

Eliminate the ATF in its entirety. Eliminate the FBI as it exists today and start over.

Expel foreign nationals in our schools when they come from a country that is our enemy.

Deport every illegal and close the border for 2 years.

Let’s fundamentally change this country back to its former glory.

Haven’t even started in on the lobbyists by that needs to be curtailed badly.

I need a little help. I keep running into this premise that Trump has stated he will install himself as a dictator when elected.

Where did that come from???? I certainly don't recall that statement.

This. Context.

Got it.... Thanks

Come on, who hasn't had a "if I could be" - usually, but not always, benevolent -"king/dictator/tyrant for a day" dream?



There have been a number of such threads on this very board. Most of which I have happily participated in.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
I need a little help. I keep running into this premise that Trump has stated he will install himself as a dictator when elected.

Where did that come from???? I certainly don't recall that statement.

When he joked he was only going to be "dictator" on the first day of his presidency. And of course most of us know that he is talking about signing a bunch of executive orders. But the media and Democrats ran with it of said he intends to be "dictator" for life. And then his "bloodbath" analogy in his autoworker speech sent the media and Democrats to the edge, saying as dictator, he will put celebrities, those who oppose him, in concentration camps, in prison, and actually executing people. And after his assassination attempt, a few Democrats admitted they may have gone a bit too far, and that all of this was "throwing meat to the lions"

It’s easy to see that the full court press of the liberal media has begun.

The sheer amount of spinning, cleansing, pushing lies, etc. will be monumental as they try to foist this bimbo on the sheep.

This is the state of liberal politics as the indoctrination of a few generations is complete and the activation of the installed push buttons can easy be done by the media.

We have some decent people on our side to simply state truths with factual evidence to back things up.

We need to keep calling out the hypocrites and question the sources of their drivel.

The shooter's social media presence has been uncovered now.
He WAS a leftist. And the FBI/SS are scrubbing and covering it up now.


epicMicrowave is what he posted under.

^^^^^^^

If you have seen this stuff, maybe you can screenshot the posts for posterity.