Peter Strzok, the fired former FBI agent who played a senior role in the early Russia-Trump campaign investigation, called President Donald Trump a national security threat in his new book, the New York Times reports.
In the memoir, according to the Times, the investigations that Strzok oversaw showed the President's"willingness to accept political assistance from an opponent like Russia — and, it follows, his willingness to subvert everything America stands for."Strzok claimed that his termination in August 2018 came because of political pressure on the FBI from Trump after he criticized the President and made political comments in text messages in 2016.
Lawmakers received several tranches of recovered messages between Strzok and Page in 2018, including several messages referring to Trump., claiming his termination in August 2018 came because of political pressure on the FBI from Trump. In the book, Strzok asserts that he wasn't part of an FBI effort to hurt the President. Instead, he says the operation aimed to investigate"a credible allegation of foreign intelligence to see where it led," according to the memoir.
"And on top of it all, at the pinnacle of this heap of perfidy and treachery, sat a president who had lied to the public, cozied up to Russia, and, once he became aware of them, attempted to block our investigation at every turn," Strzok writes. Strzok also writes in his book that the FBI wasn't prepared for Russia's interference in the 2016 election, claiming the bureau should have followed the warning signs.This story has been updated with additional details from the New York Times report.
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