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Insurrection in the FBI Against Trump?

<p class&equals;"MsoNormal" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">As Mueller&rsquo&semi;s investigation into the Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election continues to appear more corrupted&comma; a series of unsavory text messages about Donald Trump prior to his election between FBI agents have been discovered&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">This comes after Mueller was forced to fire Peter Strzok&comma; a top FBI executive&comma; from his investigation team after he exchanged anti-Trump messages with FBI lawyer Lisa Page&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Earlier this week&comma; <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">CNN<&sol;em> obtained some of these messages where the top FBI officials expressed their concern that Trump would get elected&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&&num;8220&semi;I cannot believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual&comma; serious candidate for president&comma;&&num;8221&semi; texted Page to Strzok on March 16&comma; 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&&num;8220&semi;God&lpar;&comma;&rpar; Trump is a loathsome human&comma;&&num;8221&semi; wrote Page&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&&num;8220&semi;Yet he may win&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Strzok in response&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">In the message&comma; it was discovered that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe also was included in anti-Trump discussions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy&rsquo&semi;s office &&num;8211&semi; that there&rsquo&semi;s no way he gets elected &&num;8211&semi; but I&rsquo&semi;m afraid we can&rsquo&semi;t take that risk&comma;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;wrote Strzok on August 15 to Page&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you&&num;8217&semi;re 40&hellip&semi;&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia included with the released texts and obtained by CNN on Tuesday&comma; the Justice Department says the DOJ&&num;8217&semi;s inspector general &&num;8220&semi;informed the Special Counsel of the existence of the enclosed text messages on or about July 27&comma; 2017&period; Mr&period; Mueller immediately concluded that Mr&period; Strzok could no longer participate in the investigation&comma; and he was removed from the team&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">CNN&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Strzok was also on the team that investigated Hillary Clinton&rsquo&semi;s private server&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Goodlatte expressed his concern for the bias stance of the FBI officials on <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Fox &amp&semi; Friends&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;This &lbrack;text&rsqb; is the one that concerns me the most&comma;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;said Goodlatte&period; &ldquo&semi;Andy is presumably Andrew McCabe &&num;8230&semi; and this text is very troubling because it suggests that they&rsquo&semi;re doing something&comma; they have a plan to take action to make sure that Donald Trump does not get elected president of the United States at the highest levels of the Federal Bureau of Investigation&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The Justice Department is reviewing 10&comma;000 messages between Strzok and Page&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen&period; Chuck Grassley&comma; R-Iowa expressed similar sentiments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Some of these texts appear to go beyond merely expressing a private political opinion&comma; and appear to cross the line into taking some official action to create an &lsquo&semi;insurance policy&rsquo&semi; against a Trump presidency&comma;&rdquo&semi; wrote Grassley on Thursday&period; &ldquo&semi;Presumably&comma; &lsquo&semi;Andy&rsquo&semi; refers to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe&period; So whatever was being discussed extended beyond just Page and Strzok at least to Mr&period; McCabe&comma; who was involved in supervising both investigations&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">It was also discovered that Andrew Weissmann&comma; a prosecutor on Mueller&rsquo&semi;s team&comma; emailed Sally Yates and said he was &ldquo&semi;so proud&rdquo&semi; after she was fired from her role as the acting attorney general for not defending one of Trump&rsquo&semi;s executive orders&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Considering these bias individuals were involved in Mueller&rsquo&semi;s investigation&comma; lawmakers have a lot questions for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein&comma; who appointed Mueller&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;It&rsquo&semi;s our responsibility to make sure those opinions do not influence their actions&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Rosenstein&period; &ldquo&semi;I believe Director Mueller understands that&comma; and recognizes people have political views but that they don&rsquo&semi;t let it &lbrack;affect their work&rsqb;&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">It&rsquo&semi;s safe to say&comma; the FBI is under a lot of scrutiny&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;On Wednesday&comma; a half-dozen Republicans from the House of Representatives&nbsp&semi;held a press conference&nbsp&semi;calling for answers about Comey and Clinton&period; On Tuesday and Wednesday&comma; Senator Chuck Grassley&comma; chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee&comma; wrote to Wray and the Justice Department inspector general asking for information about Strzok&period; Grassley has also written this month to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein&comma; claiming that FBI Deputy Director McCabe appeared to have violated the Hatch Act&comma; which forbids certain government employees from participating in some political activities&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Newsmax&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal"><strong>Author&rsquo&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Based on these texts it appears that FBI officials had some kind of plan against Trump should he happen to win&period; Now they are trying to disparage Trump by any means necessary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal"><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Partisan behavior in government organizations is more rampant than I&&num;8217&semi;ve ever seen&period; In this case&comma; it almost appears that FBI leadership had plans to thwart Trump somehow&period; This certainly bears investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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