{"id":368918,"date":"2018-07-11T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fbi-lovers-who-exchanged-anti-trump-texts-getting-cold-feet-ahead-of-hearings\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T08:28:11","slug":"fbi-lovers-who-exchanged-anti-trump-texts-getting-cold-feet-ahead-of-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fbi-lovers-who-exchanged-anti-trump-texts-getting-cold-feet-ahead-of-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018FBI lovers\u2019 who exchanged anti-Trump texts getting \u2018cold feet\u2019 ahead of hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Two former FBI officials who worked on the Russia probe may be getting \u201ccold feet\u201d ahead of planned appearances on Capitol Hill this week, US President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are due to appear before the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee, to answer questions about anti-Trump text messages they\u2019d exchanged, which led to them being taken off the investigating team \u2014 but there have been conflicting reports about whether the pair will show up for the hearings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am on Air Force One flying to NATO and hear reports that the FBI lovers, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are getting cold feet on testifying about  the Rigged Witch Hunt headed by 13 Angry Democrats and people that worked for Obama for 8 years. Total disgrace!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1016693575344504832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In his tweet, Trump called Strzok and Page the <em>\u201cFBI lovers\u201d<\/em> in a reference to the fact that the pair were in a romantic relationship. He said they were getting<em> \u201ccold feet\u201d<\/em> about testifying about what he called the <em>\u201cRigged Witch Hunt\u201d<\/em> against him.<\/p>\n<p>The two officials had frequently exchanged anti-Trump text messages, including one vowing to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/429788-fbi-agent-stop-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cstop\u201d<\/a><\/em> Trump from becoming president. In June, Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, who conducted a review into the FBI\u2019s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, said that the text between Page and Strzok <em>\u201cpotentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations\u201d<\/em> but concluded any anti-Trump bias had no significant impact on decisions in the Clinton email investigation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/429805-fbi-wray-clinton-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.06\/thumbnail\/5b22e83bfc7e93dd4a8b45f9.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Yuri Gripas\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Strzok is expected to testify at a two public House hearings on Thursday, but some reports suggest that Page could be a no-show at her planned closed-door deposition on Wednesday. If both show up as planned, they are expected to face questions about their involvement in the FBI\u2019s Russia investigation. Page resigned from the FBI in May but Strzok remains working for the bureau in a new capacity.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Wall Street Journal earlier this year, Trump said the text between Strzok and Page amounted to<em> \u201ctreason\u201d<\/em> and had exposed an FBI plot against him.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is the FBI we\u2019re talking about \u2014 that is treason,\u201d<\/em> Trump said.<em> \u201cThat is a treasonous act. What he tweeted to his lover is a treasonous act.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/432541-strzok-page-fbi-trump\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former FBI officials who worked on the Russia probe may be getting \u201ccold feet\u201d ahead of planned appearances on Capitol Hill this week, US President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet on Tuesday. Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are due to appear before the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee, to answer questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368918","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=368918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}