Remember Peter Strzok, the crusading anti-Trump FBI agent who got canned for writing text messages with his paramour, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, that basically said they wouldn’t let Trump get elected in the 2016 presidential election?
Well, he just lost his First Amendment suit against the Department of Justice and the FBI after Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that he had failed to prove that his rights were violated.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in 2019 during President Donald Trump's first term, Strzok argued that his FBI superiors illegally fired him in retaliation for sending text messages that criticized the president.
Trump, Strzok's attorneys argued, was irate about the texts he sent while investigating alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, and FBI brass fired him to appease the White House.
Does this seem like an unbiased counterespionage agent protecting America to you, or does it show him to be a partisan deep stater who thought he was above the law?
Page texted Strzok: "Trump's not ever going to be president, right? Right?"
Strzok replied, "No. No, he won't. We will stop it".
Even though he has lost this case, Biden’s DOJ unbelievably handed him over $1 million for “violating his privacy” by releasing the toxic texts, as we reported back in 2024:
Ridiculous: Feds to Pay Oodles of Your Tax Dollars to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for Ridiculous Privacy Act Claims
Kash Patel reveals that it was Garland and Wray who paid USD 2 million to FBI anti-Trump co-conspirators Strzok and Page
— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) September 17, 2025
Page texted Strzok: "Trump's not ever going to be president, right? Right?" Strzok replied, "No. No, he won't. We will stop it".
Ms. Page resigned from the… pic.twitter.com/4fbmZDdPpA
But that was then; this is now, and the news wasn’t nearly as good for the OG Deep Stater:
In her ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that several years of evidence and testimony collected by Strzok's legal team from those involved in the 2018 decision to terminate him failed to prove that the 22-year FBI veteran's rights were violated…
A summary of Jackson's ruling — the full decision is currently under seal — showed she also rejected Strzok's argument that he had entered into a binding deal with a senior FBI disciplinary official, which would have demoted the counterintelligence agent and suspended him for 60 days. The deal was canceled by the FBI's then-Deputy Director David Bowdich, who fired Strzok.
He grew infamous for smirking relentlessly during congressional testimony, even as lawmakers were grilling him over his unprofessional messages and dubious marital mores:
Louie Gohmert slams Peter Strzok: "You’ve embarrassed yourself and I can’t help but wonder when I see you looking there with a little smirk, how many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eye and lied to her about Lisa Page." #StrzokHearing pic.twitter.com/vlCuZdoiee
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 12, 2018
Strzok is now an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Be forewarned, students, he epitomizes the deep state cabal that undermined Trump in his first term and continues to attempt to do so today. If you think that’s too harsh a description, remember some of these nuggets he texted while serving in an official capacity. Here’s an exchange from August 2016:
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in [former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe] Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” he wrote. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”
What exactly he meant by that has been debated endlessly, but what wasn’t: he wrote, "God Trump is a loathsome human," and called him an “idiot.”
I recommend not writing stuff like that about your boss on your work-issued phone—it’s unlikely to end well for you.
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