The suit says that the FBI caved to 'unrelenting pressure' from the president when it fired him, that he was unfairly punished for expressing political opinions and more.
A veteran FBI agent who wrote derogatory text messages about President Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the bureau caved to “unrelenting pressure” from the president when it fired him.
The complaint, which names as defendants Atty. Gen. William Barr and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, revisits a political drama that was seized on by conservative critics of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation as proof that the bureau was biased against Trump. Multiple investigations are underway examining whether the FBI acted properly during the Russia investigation, and Strzok remains a target of Trump’s scornful tweets.
Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent who helped lead FBI investigations into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, was removed from Mueller’s team after the texts with FBI lawyer Lisa Page came to light. He was fired from the FBI last August.Many of the texts, on FBI cellphones, were bitingly critical of Trump during his 2016 run for office.
That deputy, David Bowdich, overruled the recommendation of a disciplinary official that he be merely demoted and suspended without pay and denied him the chance to appeal. The lawsuit says the administration discriminated against his viewpoint by firing him even though other government officials who have supported Trump in the workplace have kept their jobs. It notes that the White House has not fired counselor Kellyanne Conway despite the determination that she violated the Hatch Act — a law that limits political activity by government workers — by criticizing Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity.
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