'Useful foil': Lisa Page says her text messages were released to help ‘beleaguered’ Jeff Sessions

Former FBI attorney Lisa Page claimed her text messages with ex-agent Peter Strzok were made public as a scapegoat for then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Texts between Strzok and Page, who are both no longer employed by the FBI, revealed political animus toward President Trump. The two described their desire to “stop” Trump’s election and included details about how an investigation into his campaign could be an “insurance policy.” When the texts were made public, the president used them as the cornerstone of his argument that the intelligence community was biased against his administration.