Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham read aloud a text message with the f-word from former FBI agent Peter Strzok during Wednesday’s hearing with Attorney General William Barr.
During his opening remarks Wednesday morning, Graham, R-S.C., read off text messages exchanged between Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
One that he read was from October 2016, in which Strzok wrote to Page: “I am riled up. Trump is a fucking idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer. I can’t pull away. What the fuck happened to our country??!?!”
.@LindseyGrahamSC reads text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page about @realDonaldTrump.
Things they said:
“God, Trump is a loathsome human being.”
“Hillary should win 100 million to nothing.”
“Trump is a f–king idiot.” pic.twitter.com/PWZsKOsV0M
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 1, 2019
Graham then apologized to any children watching. “Sorry to the kids out there,” he said, before reading other text messages.
The thousands of text messages that Strzok and Page, who were having an affair, sent back and forth about the Clinton and Trump-Russia investigations raised questions of bias, and special counsel Robert Mueller eventually removed Strzok from the Russia investigation. Strzok was also fired by the FBI.
Graham read Strzok’s text messages to convey how the person who once led Mueller’s investigation “hated Trump’s guts.”
Barr was appearing before the committee to testify about Mueller’s 22-month investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
