(Zero Hedge) With a week to go before the long-awaited DOJ Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s conduct surrounding the 2016 election, former agency lawyer Lisa Page would like everyone to know that she’s the real victim.
Related DOJ Inspector General Discovers 19,000 Missing Strzok-Page Text Messages
by Staff Writer, December 2nd, 2019
Speaking with the Daily Beast‘s Molly Jong-Fast, who challenged her on exactly nothing (such as whether she altered Mike Flynn’s 302 form, or what the ‘insurance policy‘ was, or if she coordinated with the Washington Post on a “media leak strategy”), Page insists that her hatred of Trump never influenced her work investigating him, and that while she prefers to live in obscurity – she was compelled to tell her side of the story after President Trump mocked her with a fake orgasm routine at a rally last month – and not because of IG Michael Horowitz’s FISA report due on December 9th.
Horowitz has circulated the report to key figures for legal review, and is rumored to clear to clear Page and other FBI officials of letting their raging hatred of Trump (and love of Clinton) color their work – hence the ‘Teen Vogue’ – tier puff piece. We’re sure she’ll go into greater detail when she writes a book on the whole ‘matter.’
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Highlights
- Trump’s Oct. 11 impression of her sleeping with Strzok pushed her over the edge. “Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back.“
- Her extramarital affair with FBI agent Peter Strzok while they were both investigating Trump and Clinton was “the most wrong thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
“And that’s when I become the source of the president’s personal mockery and insults. Because before this moment in time, there’s not a person outside of my small legal community who knows who I am or what I do. I’m a normal public servant, just a G-15, standard-level lawyer, like every other lawyer at the Justice Department.”
- Page is”slightly crumbly around the edges the way the president’s other victims are,” and is experiencing something beyond PTSD.
Does it feel like a trauma? “It is. I wouldn’t even call it PTSD because it’s not over. It’s ongoing. It’s not a historical event that is being relived. It just keeps happening.”
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“It’s almost impossible to describe” what it’s like, she told me. “It’s like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again. The president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He’s demeaning me and my career. It’s sickening.”
- Page is always on edge – avoiding people in MAGA hats as she lives in daily anguish.
“I’m someone who’s always in my head anyway—so now otherwise normal interactions take on a different meaning. Like, when somebody makes eye contact with me on the Metro, I kind of wince, wondering if it’s because they recognize me, or are they just scanning the train like people do? It’s immediately a question of friend or foe? Or if I’m walking down the street or shopping and there’s somebody wearing Trump gear or a MAGA hat, I’ll walk the other way or try to put some distance between us because I’m not looking for conflict. Really, what I wanted most in this world is my life back.”
- In response to Trump suggesting she committed treason, Page insists “[T]here’s no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason…“
- Page insists that Trump wasn’t the target of the 2016 investigation into his campaign, and that the FBI learned of “the possibility that there’s someone on the Trump campaign coordinating with the Russian government in the release of emails, which will damage the Clinton campaign.”
“We were very deliberate and conservative about who we first opened on because we recognized how sensitive a situation it was,” Page says. “So the prospect that we were spying on the campaign or even investigating candidate Trump himself is just false. That’s not what we were doing.”
- Her text messages with Strzok were ‘cherry picked’ and ‘out of context.’
Page felt abandoned by the FBI and Justice because of the release of the messages and because the bureau issued no statement defending her and Strzok. “So things get worse,” she continues. “And of course, you know, those texts were selected for their political impact. They lack a lot of context. Many of them aren’t even about him or me. We’re not given an opportunity to provide any context. In a lot of those texts we were talking about other people like our family members or articles we had sent each other.”
At the end of the day, Page wants us to know that she’s the real victim here. Perhaps she can provide those missing 19,000 text messages for some even better context?
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“Does it feel like a trauma? ‘It is. I wouldn’t even call it PTSD because it’s not over. It’s ongoing. It’s not a historical event that is being relived. It just keeps happening.’”
Aww! Your wittle ego is so wounded. You should look up the definition of PTSD before making yourself look even more stupid than you already do while minimizing real victims of rape, war and violence. “Beyond PTSD, really? Suck it up as a needed life lesson. You’re the one who made yourself a laughingstock.
She has the right to remain silent and if she had half a brain she would do so.