The firing of Peter Strzok — the FBI agent who sent a series of anti-Trump texts to a woman he was having an affair with even as he was part of investigations into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and Russia’s attempted interference in the 2016 election — seems, on its face, to be very big news.
After all, Strzok has been front and center in President Donald Trump’s attempts to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference and the possibility of collusion and obstruction for months now. “Russian Collusion with the Trump Campaign, one of the most successful in history, is a TOTAL HOAX,” Trump tweeted earlier this month. “The Democrats paid for the phony and discredited Dossier which was, along with Comey, McCabe, Strzok and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, used to begin the Witch Hunt. Disgraceful!”
