FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok insisted to Congress on Thursday that his text messages disparaging then-candidate Donald Trump were “not indicative of bias,” even though the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General said the texts showed a “biased state of mind.”

“I did not think that bias was expressed in those text messages,” he told the House committees on judiciary and oversight of messages he sent showing that he opposed Trump and would “stop” him from becoming president.