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# "Jaw-dropping" Text Message By FBI Agent Suggests No Trump Collusion With Russia

And the hits just keep on coming.

Just hours after we reported that according to the latest batch of text messages between anti-Trump FBI investigators, a "secret society of folks" within the DOJ and the FBI may have come together in the "immediate aftermath" of the 2016 election to undermine President Trump, another blockbuster text message appears to have emerged.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a radio interview that the FBI’s top agent on the Trump-Russia investigation, Peter Strzok, sent what Johnson called a "jaw-dropping" text message last year that suggests he saw no evidence of Trump campaign collusion.

As first reported by the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross, in an interview with WISN-Milwaukee radio host Jay Weber, Johnson read aloud a May 19, 2017 text that Strzok sent to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.

As Weber summarized, "Sen Ron Johnson tells me he's discovered a text from Peter Strzok 2 days after the Mueller investigation in which he questions whether he wants to be part of it because he believes 'there's nothing there'. No collusion."

> The Strozk text verbatim on joining the Mueller investigation: May 19th, 2017- 'You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I'd be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there's no big there there.'

> — Jay Weber (@JayWeber3) January 23, 2018

Here is the "jawdropping" text message that Strzok wrote just two days after Mueller was named special counsel for the Russia Investigation:

> "You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there’s no big there there."

> Sen Ron Johnson drops a bombshell on The Jay Weber Show
> #TheJayWeberShow https://t.co/vcD0EqtqNy

> — News/Talk 1130 WISN (@newstalk1130) January 23, 2018

Johnson said that the text referred to the Mueller investigation, which had kicked off two days earlier. Strzok joined that team, but was removed in July after the Justice Department’s inspector general discovered his anti-Trump text exchanges with Page.

As the FBI’s deputy counterintelligence chief, Strzok had been picked in July 2016 to oversee the investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government; in other words the text message came almost one year after the anti-Trump FBI agent had already done preliminary work on whether there was any Trump collusion. Prior to that, he was a top investigator on the Clinton email inquiry.

“I think that’s kind of jaw-dropping,” said Johnson, a Republican, said of the Strzok text.

“In other words, Peter Strzok, who was the FBI deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division, the man who had a plan to do something because he just couldn’t abide Donald Trump being president, is saying that his gut sense is that there’s no big there there when it comes to the Mueller special counsel investigation,” Johnson explained.

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This particular text message was included in 400 pages of text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page. Lawmakers have started reviewing the trove of documents for evidence of anti-Trump and pro-Clinton bias as part of an ongoing investigation. Yesterday AG Jeff Sessions announced that the DOJ was also beginning an investigation into the months of missing text message that the FBI had failed to preserve.

> Johnson also addressed the revelation last Friday that the FBI “failed to preserve” five months worth of text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page. A Justice Department official told Johnson’s committee and five other congressional panels that a “misconfiguration” issue caused “many” FBI-issued mobile devices to not back up to the bureau’s servers.

In a shocking disclosure late last week the FBI said it did not have text messages for Strzok and Page for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017 — the day that Mueller was appointed.

Johnson said that Congress needs to see the missing text messages because Strzok and Page were “completely unguarded in their communication.”

“So we’re getting insight into exactly what is happening inside the FBI at the highest levels. And who knows who else they might implicate in terms of corruption,” he said.

Meanwhile the question of just who was obstructing justice - Trump or the FBI and the DOJ - is becoming increasingly more pressing with each passing day.

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WTFRLY Jan 23, 2018 12:06 PM Permalink

Russia-gate has been a big Joominati psyop.

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IntercoursetheEU WTFRLY Jan 23, 2018 12:08 PM Permalink

Bonehead moment

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BlindMonkey IntercoursetheEU Jan 23, 2018 12:16 PM Permalink

This is no boneheads moment. These people belive they are the custodians of the gov and wield unlimited power over everyone.

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hedgeless_horseman BlindMonkey Jan 23, 2018 12:17 PM Permalink

How is Van Jones going to explain this to his children?

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Syrin hedgeless_horseman Jan 23, 2018 12:18 PM Permalink

Seth Rich paid a steep price to keep this under wraps, and it still didn't work.

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???ö? Syrin Jan 23, 2018 12:23 PM Permalink

Once the wheels of "justice" start turning the only question left is what to grind up.

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Liberal ???ö? Jan 23, 2018 12:35 PM Permalink

Everyone knows Strzok is a racist nazi fascist misogynistic white man.

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Joe Davola Liberal Jan 23, 2018 12:44 PM Permalink

How do you get anything else done when you're texting this much.

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stizazz Joe Davola Jan 23, 2018 12:48 PM Permalink

You don't. Besides, they're also too busy being tyrants. https://goo.gl/tiZwod

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Bes stizazz Jan 23, 2018 1:12 PM Permalink

I am curious what the text messages were before and after this one....

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Bilderberg Member Bes Jan 23, 2018 1:35 PM Permalink

So no probable cause or even a hint of it....Illegal investigation

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BokkeDavola Bilderberg Member Jan 23, 2018 1:42 PM Permalink

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Billy the Poet stizazz Jan 23, 2018 1:57 PM Permalink

This has gone way too far and for far too long. Arrest the traitors or the people will do the job with rope.

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JRobby Joe Davola Jan 23, 2018 12:49 PM Permalink

I thought they lost them all?

Can't they use Google Maps to find the NSA?

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BandGap JRobby Jan 23, 2018 2:10 PM Permalink

He texted this two days after the "lost" texts.

The opening act in the shitshow is over, now the plot will deepen.

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erg Joe Davola Jan 23, 2018 12:49 PM Permalink

The memo is out. This should be fun.

https://www.infowars.com/exclusive-infowars-releases-secret-fisa-memo/

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espirit erg Jan 23, 2018 12:55 PM Permalink

It's going to take more than the essence of a cheap perfume to cover up the stench that is Washington DC.

I'm thinking a major FF is in the making.

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verumcuibono erg Jan 23, 2018 1:11 PM Permalink

Has this been authenticated? Infowars is known as psyops...

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HowdyDoody verumcuibono Jan 23, 2018 1:21 PM Permalink

Sign in with Google or Facebook to download? Great. How about uploading to dropbox and publish the download url?

Here's a non-Scribd link

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opi…

As political junkie says, this is an old memo and is not the 4 page memo.

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verumcuibono HowdyDoody Jan 23, 2018 2:42 PM Permalink

Thanks - not surprising.

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political junkie verumcuibono Jan 23, 2018 2:01 PM Permalink

It's an old memo - beenout twice... is not THE memo...

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newmacroman erg Jan 23, 2018 1:35 PM Permalink

Has this one been posted?

http://yournewswire.com/fbi-leaks-explosive-memo/

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Noktirnal newmacroman Jan 23, 2018 2:02 PM Permalink

This GCHQ memo and the InfoWars memo are NOT the Congress memo. Both of these documents were circulating last week. The FBI and DOJ have both confirmed that congress will not release the memo to them for review. So the leaked memo should not be coming from FBI/DOJ. If FBI is leaking it, it is for misdirection only.

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HowdyDoody Noktirnal Jan 23, 2018 2:16 PM Permalink

Correct. The GCHQ one does show proof of the UK actively interfering in the US election.

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newmacroman HowdyDoody Jan 23, 2018 2:43 PM Permalink

Rice O Bama, the San Francisco treat

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Phil Free newmacroman Jan 23, 2018 2:41 PM Permalink

The one everyone wants to see, the FBI does not have to leak. They wished they had it. Boy, do they ... :D

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mydogisprettie… erg Jan 23, 2018 1:41 PM Permalink

No, it's not.

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Anunnaki erg Jan 23, 2018 2:16 PM Permalink

Alex Jones is married to a Joo so I don't trust the King of the Zionists. Let's see when MS-DNC releases it. Then it will be actual newsworthy

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Phil Free erg Jan 23, 2018 2:38 PM Permalink

That's the wrong memo. Infowars is posting a memo that was released 8 months ago (originally here: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/duplicates/6dxx16/2016_cert_fisc_memo_opin… )

It's not -THE- memo that everyone wants to see. Clickbait, unfortunately.

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Ghost of PartysOver Joe Davola Jan 23, 2018 12:52 PM Permalink

I have said it before I I will say again, it will get worse before it gets better. So far this is limited to just the Justice Dept and FBI. Wait until it it gets into the NSA, CIA, DIA and all the other Intelligence Agencies. But until then it is starting to look a fight to the finish between the Justice Dept IG and some members of Congress vs Team Mueller. My money is on the Justice IG dude.

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Chupacabra-322 Ghost of PartysOver Jan 23, 2018 1:12 PM Permalink

@ Ghost,

It’s absolute, complete, open in your Faces,

Tyrannical Lawlessness.

We’re well beyond recourse. The Puppet, hypocrite in Chief CEO of this Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. proved that by signing the Criminal NSA Surveillance Bill.

The Complicit Trump decided to Stay silent & admit its OK to Surveillance of a Presidental Candidate. It’s evidently clear if the Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths at the FBI, CIA Deep State are not taken down by force the Tyrannical Lawlessness we’re experiencing will metastasize mortally wounding the Republic.

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y3maxx Chupacabra-322 Jan 23, 2018 1:42 PM Permalink

-Anyone checking the airports for sudden Democrat/FBI/DOJ/CIA//NSA departures?

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Anunnaki y3maxx Jan 23, 2018 2:18 PM Permalink

Why? Jeff Sessions is going to cock block anything that could land a Democrat or Deep State actor in trouble. He's Manchurian all the way.

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Phil Free y3maxx Jan 23, 2018 2:49 PM Permalink

Hmmm, maybe that's another reason that the city of Atlanta has begun shoveling the homeless off of sidewalks, depositing them . . . in the Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport. Because, you know, what else does the world's busiest airport need, than . . . to be packed with . . . the homeless? Who aren't flying anywhere?

Fucking rocket scientists, the whole lot of 'em. Pfff ...

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Flakmeister Chupacabra-322 Jan 23, 2018 2:45 PM Permalink

I wonder why ZH is not covering this:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article195231139…

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nra-no-response-report-fbi-inve…

Looks like the NRA is nothing but a front for Putin-dollars...

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FoggyWorld Ghost of PartysOver Jan 23, 2018 2:02 PM Permalink

Problem with Michael Horowitz, IG, is that he was appointed as an Assistant US Attorney along with Mueller and Comey in the Southern District of NY, 1991-1999. McCabe joined in that office in 1996.

Horowitz then moved in 2000 to DC and again worked with Muller and Comey and Rosenstein as well.

Close knit bunch if there ever was one.

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Jim in MN FoggyWorld Jan 23, 2018 2:13 PM Permalink

Yes, a real 'cleaners' squad. Makes you wonder how far Horowitz is willing to go.

We certainly can't expect any one person to be the savior here. Need a movement, a sort of massive allergic reaction that just spits up these evildoers in a heap.

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Pumpkin Ghost of PartysOver Jan 23, 2018 2:24 PM Permalink

Trump should declare an emergency as it is a threat to national defense, bring in the army and clean house.

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petroglyph Ghost of PartysOver Jan 23, 2018 2:26 PM Permalink

It already came out with Snowden and Popadopolous at the SEC. Nothing happens to these people.

The wife says, "stay awake, the guards a fake". They catch these crooks [Weiner] and Manning exposes them and it all just washes off, like water off a ducks back.

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FreedomWriter Liberal Jan 23, 2018 1:50 PM Permalink

Who also needs to check in his white privilege. I mean have you seen how angry and WHITE that guy is? No wonder he turned into a corrupt FBI agent. This would never of happened if the Hellbot had been elected. In fact, no one would have even heard about this incompetent SJW. But now that he has been revealed for all the world to see, Strzok should be sent to G-Bay and forced to wear a pink pussy hat all day in the blazing Cuban sun. That should wake him up.

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bobdog54 ???ö? Jan 23, 2018 2:31 PM Permalink

Actually the first question is “will they grind anyone or everyone up” been awhile since a deep stater really went down.

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Bes Syrin Jan 23, 2018 12:29 PM Permalink

I am curious what the text messages were before and after this one....

context, we need context

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novictim Bes Jan 23, 2018 2:03 PM Permalink

Strzok was talking about a possible trip to Oakland California?

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Jim in MN Bes Jan 23, 2018 2:14 PM Permalink

Need to get the whole evidence dump public, digital and searchable.

It's the only way with all of this shit.

WE will sort it all out.

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Al Huxley Syrin Jan 23, 2018 12:43 PM Permalink

On the bright side, by the time the Arkancides are done, it will defacto drain the swamp, just different way than Trump promised.

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New_Meat Al Huxley Jan 23, 2018 1:56 PM Permalink

a) more permanent, b) less costly, c) lawyers won't get their cut--yep, that's on the bright side

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JustPastPeacefield Syrin Jan 23, 2018 1:23 PM Permalink

For people who think think the SR murder is in the realm of conspiracy nuts, consider what is being furiously covered up here. When Hillary said they would all hang ... we're beginning to see what she means.

SR - apparently and rather obviously - exposed a part of this treasonous scheme, and perhaps would have leaked even more.

Treason, sedition. These are capital crimes. In a divided country I'm not sure these criminals will hang, but they have reason to fear.

SR didn't know the high-stakes game of poker he was playing. Like fingering the mafia, you better know who you're dealing with. He wasn't very careful or underestimated these people.

Assange understands that he has a target on his back. Snowden must know - at least now - that he's a hunted man. So were Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin and many more. That's why we built monuments to them.

Take heart though, once you knock out enough supports on this corrupt structure, it goes down fast.

This thing is going down. Can't prop it up anymore. A lot of people will be caught on the wrong side of history.

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Jim in MN JustPastPeacefield Jan 23, 2018 2:18 PM Permalink

I now envision a kind of hyped-up CREEP operation run directly from the White House and the President's office.

Serious, serious shit going down here.

People, info and cash just slopping around from DNC, Clinton "Foundation", CIA, FBI, DOJ. State, USAID, Fusion GPS, mercenaries, thugs and hacks.

Targeting whoever the fuck they felt like targeting, AKA US citizens accused of no crimes.

Watergate X 1,000,000,000 give or take.

It ends here. They do, or we do.

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Wilcox1 hedgeless_horseman Jan 23, 2018 12:24 PM Permalink

Wool comforter and standard pack of lies most likely.

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wholy1 hedgeless_horseman Jan 23, 2018 12:31 PM Permalink

Don Lemon has "replicated" - NOT good!

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