{"id":339303,"date":"2017-12-13T22:06:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T21:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-probe-insurance-policy-to-derail-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T22:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T21:06:36","slug":"russia-probe-insurance-policy-to-derail-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-probe-insurance-policy-to-derail-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Probe \u2018Insurance Policy\u2019 To Derail Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie White<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>December 13th 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mueller-e1513191169304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mueller-e1513191169304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297676\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of text messages between two top FBI investigators have been turned over to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including anti-Trump messages that reveal a desire to start the probe into Russian collusion as an \u201cinsurance policy\u201d should Donald Trump win the presidency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the damning texts between investigator Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page is an excerpt describing the Russia investigation as an \u201cinsurance policy\u201d meant to ensure Trump\u2019s overthrow should he win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy\u2019s office\u201d \u2014 an apparent reference to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe \u2014 \u201cthat there\u2019s no way he [Trump] gets elected \u2014 but I\u2019m afraid we can\u2019t take that risk,\u201d Strzok <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2017\/12\/12\/politics\/peter-strzok-texts-released\/index.html?__twitter_impression=true\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Page in a text from August 15, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you\u2019re 40 . . . . \u201d <\/p>\n<p>Strzok was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s Russia investigation last summer without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/two-senior-fbi-officials-on-clinton-trump-probes-exchanged-politically-charged-texts-disparaging-trump\/2017\/12\/02\/9846421c-d707-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> surfaced earlier this month showing Strzok was dismissed after text exchanges with FBI lawyer Lisa Page revealed a deep anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton bias.<\/p>\n<p>Upon learning that this information had been withheld from Congress despite multiple subpoenas, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) threatened FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with contempt-of-Congress citations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now know why Strzok was dismissed, why the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this explanation, and at least one reason why they previously refused to make [FBI] Deputy Director [Andrew] McCabe available to the Committee for an interview,\u201d Nunes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/12\/03\/ex-mueller-team-members-role-in-clinton-probe-under-review.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note that Strzok played a significant role not only in Mueller\u2019s Russian probe, but also in Hillary Clinton\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/strzok-texts-russia-probe-insurance-policy-to-derail-trump.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie WhitePrisonPlanet.comDecember 13th 2017 Hundreds of text messages between two top FBI investigators have been turned over to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including anti-Trump messages that reveal a desire to start the probe into Russian collusion as an \u201cinsurance policy\u201d should Donald Trump win the presidency. Among the damning texts between investigator Peter Strzok and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}