Former FBI agent Peter Strzok deleted all of his posts on the social media site X Monday.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released documents and a memo July 18 detailing what she called a “years-long coup” against President Donald Trump after he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Strzok had been a key player in the unfounded allegations that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia, including intervening to prevent the FBI from closing a probe into retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was Trump’s first national security advisor in his first term. (RELATED: More Whistleblowers Want To Speak Out On Anti-Trump Plot That Began Under Obama, Tulsi Gabbard Says)
The deletion of the posts comes following Gabbard’s referral of the documents to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, with former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan among those named as potential targets of a Justice Department “strike force.”
Peter Strzok’s X Profile following the purge.
Strzok now serves as a contributor on MSNBC and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Since his firing, Strzok has repeatedly appeared on MSNBC to defend not only his performance, but also to regularly target Trump for colluding with Russia.
“I think the reality is, people are still around the world looking to the United States and trying to figure out, is this flirtation with Trump done?” Strzok told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace during a November 2022 appearance on the network. “Is Trump not only the individual, sort of national security problems he had, are there also problems that his mistrust of the NATO alliance, his coziness with people like Vladimir Putin, his hesitation to support Ukraine, all the things that from a strategic perspective Russia would want to pursue, Trump very much aligns with those. So I think time will tell. And I think we’re going to have to keep a close eye to the tens of millions of people who still support former President Trump to see what that translates to in the two years ahead.”
Special Counsel John Durham released a report May 15, 2023, that found that the FBI “did not and could not corroborate” the claims from the since-discredited Steele Dossier, which was used to obtain warrants to monitor communications by associates of Trump during the 2016 campaign. On page nine of his report, Durham noted Strzok and Andrew McCabe “had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump” that were expressed in text messages.
The FBI fired Strzok on Aug. 13, 2018 over texts to FBI attorney Lisa Page, who Strzok had an affair with, in which Strzok disparaged then-presidential candidate Donald Trump while investigating alleged collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
“In my 23 years in the FBI, I have not seen a more impactful series of missteps which called into question the entire organization and more thoroughly damaged the reputation of the entire organization,” then-FBI deputy director David Bowditch wrote in a draft of the termination letter, according to the Washington Examiner.
Strzok did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation sent via the communications office of Georgetown University, where he teaches a course in counter-intelligence and national security.
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