![]() ![]() The Journal reports that he had emphasized his seriousness a few days earlier, texting Page: “OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE WE ARE SERIOUSLY LOOKING AT THESE ALLEGATIONS AND THE PERVASIVE CONNECTIONS.” Trump’s associates could land administration jobs and it was important to know if they had colluded with Russia. It would be better to be aggressive and gather evidence quickly, he believed, because some of Mr. Trump could very well win the election, they said. His text was meant to convey his belief that the investigation couldn’t afford to take a more measured approach because Mr. Hillary Clinton did not win the election, and the FBI has come under increasing scrutiny over concerns about impartiality in its investigations of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Russia probe since the release of the text.Īccording to the Journal, Strzok was arguing they could not take a more careful approach, as Trump could win: The agent didn’t intend to suggest a secret plan to harm the candidate but rather address a colleague who believed the Federal Bureau of Investigation could take its time because Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was certain to win the election, the people said. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the “insurance policy” was not a secret plan, but pushing the Russia probe - a probe that is still ongoing a year into Trump’s first term: It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…” “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in office-that there’s no way gets elected-but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. While many of the messages were critical of Trump, there was one message in particular that raised eyebrows and caused debate: ![]() Strzok was demoted by FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller after he discovered anti-Trump texts exchanged between Strzok and fellow FBI official Lisa Page. ![]() American intelligence agencies issued a report early last year that found Russia attempted to influence the vote by hacking political parties and spreading misinformation.Įarly this month Simpson and his co-founder Peter Fritsch wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times calling on Congress to release the testimony their firm gave in several interviews with lawmakers.ĭemocratic Senator Dianne Feinstein's office unilaterally released Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last August early this month after senior Republicans on the committee issued a criminal referral against Steele.FBI investigator Peter Strzok’s text referring to “an insurance policy” against President Trump was reportedly arguing that the agency should probe allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Simpson spoke with the House committee as part of the congressional Russia investigations that are probing Russian interference in the 2016 election. The dossier was published by BuzzFeed News in January 2017. What Steele-who worked as an MI6 spy in Russia in the 90s and once headed the agency's Russia desk-learned during his probing of his sources in Russia so concerned him that he eventually took his findings to the FBI during the 2016 election.Ī dossier compiled by Steele alleges that Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort and other campaign figures and associates worked with the Kremlin to spread dirt on Clinton. Read more: Trump-Russia dossier: Republicans, Devin Nunes, want dirt on FBI and Justice to discredit salacious report "As we pieced together the early years of his biography, it seemed as if during the early part of his career he had connections to a lot of Italian mafia figures, and then gradually during the 90s became associated with Russian mafia figures," Simpson said. Trump's business career had evolved over the prior decade into a lot of projects in overseas places, particularly in the former Soviet Union, that were very opaque, and that he had made a number of trips to Russia, but said he'd never done a business deal there." The research was then funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign after Trump won the nomination.ĭuring his firm's research, Simpson said that he "increasingly saw that Mr. Simpson's firm was first hired to research Trump by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, during the Republican primaries. ![]()
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