IG report proves the ‘deep state’ isn’t as powerful as we thought

Published June 14, 2018 9:11pm ET



The Justice Department’s inspector general report on the Clinton email investigation was released on Thursday and gave us new insight into what former FBI investigator Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page thought they could do to “stop” Donald Trump from becoming president.

“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page wrote to Strzok, with whom she was having an extramarital affair, in August 2016.

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