{"id":2070211,"date":"2023-10-17T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T16:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-be-questioned-under-oath-about-fbi-employees-suing-doj\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T16:59:16","slug":"trump-to-be-questioned-under-oath-about-fbi-employees-suing-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-be-questioned-under-oath-about-fbi-employees-suing-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump will be questioned under oath about FBI employees suing DOJ."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-to-be-questioned-under-oath-about-fbi-employees-suing-doj%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2070211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<p>On Tuesday, former \u200dPresident Donald Trump is set to be deposed in \u2063a case two former FBI employees brought against the Department of Justice (DOJ).<\/p>\n<p>Peter Strzok\u2064 and Lisa Page made headlines when texts between the two former FBI employees, who were also having an extramarital affair at the \u2063time, were revealed to show anti-Trump messages and bias. Mr. Strzok \u200bwas leading the already contentious FBI investigation into ties between the former president&#8217;s first campaign and Russia,\u2064 and Ms. \u200bPage was \u200calso assigned to the case.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Strzok\u200d was also a key agent in the investigation into former Secretary\u2062 of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s use of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-73976-ballots-released-by-maricopa-county-56-1-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"BREAKING: 73,976 Ballots Released By Maricopa County \u2014 56.1% FOR DONALD TRUMP\">private email server<\/a>, in which evidence was destroyed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Related Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/judge-says-trump-can-be-deposed-in-former-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-lawsuit-5379830?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3>Judge Says Trump Can Be Deposed in Former FBI Agent Peter\u2062 Strzok Lawsuit<\/h3>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>7\/6\/2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/fbi-denies-targeting-trump-supporters-ahead-of-2024-election-5505346?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3>FBI Denies Targeting Trump Supporters Ahead \u200dof \u20642024 Election<\/h3>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>10\/6\/2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ms. Page, who \u2062had resigned from the agency, is suing the \u200cDOJ for disclosing her \u200btexts, and Mr. Strzok was fired months after Ms. Page resigned and is suing for wrongful termination. He claims the firing was political, while the agency claims it was proper given \u200bhis \u2062&#8221;lapse of judgment&#8221; which was also evidenced in the\u2063 texts.<\/p>\n<p>The separate suits were\u200b combined, and\u2063 both plaintiffs alleged \u200dthat the\u200d DOJ was pressured by\u200d President Trump when they took action against the FBI \u2063employees. They noted\u200b that President Trump repeatedly invoked them in\u200c social\u200c media posts and had actually called for Mr. Strzok to\u2064 be fired.<\/p>\n<p>For two years, the DOJ has repeatedly argued that President\u200b Trump&#8217;s deposition is not necessary. They \u2063argued that several other witnesses have \u2063already testified as to President Trump&#8217;s role, and\u2064 that was sufficient for the case.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump on the other hand has said he is willing to testify in this case, and has lambasted the &#8220;Russia hoax&#8221; about his 2016 campaign publicly during his current campaign\u200b as he\u2064 hopes to run for president again in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A judge, and appeals\u200c court, had \u2064ruled that\u200d President Trump could \u2062be deposed. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, presiding over the\u200d case, noted that President Trump had\u200d made time for other\u2062 cases despite his campaigning, \u200dand thus said he would have time to be deposed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">The deposition will happen in New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/live-updates-trump-to-return-to-new-york-fraud-trial-5511557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where President Trump is attending<\/a> a civil\u200d trial\u2064 against him, where New York Attorney\u200c General Letitia James has sued him for fraud and overvaluing his\u2062 assets.<\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>  \u200c  President Trump is expected\u2064 to leave the\u200c trial early for the afternoon deposition.<\/p>\n<h2>Peter Strzok<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Strzok had been with the FBI for 25 years before he was terminated. \u2063In his\u200d lawsuit, Mr. Strzok claims that his political opinions in the revealed\u2064 personal texts led\u2062 to his firing in 2018, even after the officer in charge of the Office of Professional Responsibility had recommended a suspension and demotion\u2064 rather than termination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The day after Mr. Strzok accepted\u200d this disciplinary decision, he was fired, effective \u2062immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The discharge decision was made by Deputy Director David Bowdich, and was the result of unrelenting pressure from President Trump and his\u200d political allies in Congress and the\u200b media,&#8221; his 2019 lawsuit read. &#8220;The campaign\u2063 to fire Strzok included constant tweets \u200band other disparaging statements by the President,\u2063 as well as\u200d direct \u2062appeals from the President to then Attorney General Jefferson Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire Strzok, which were chronicled in the press.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the release of his texts only \u200benabled the \u2063wrongful termination.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the texts \u200cbetween Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page revealed deep bias, which officials and \u200dlawmakers claim colored the investigation into \u200dPresident Trump&#8217;s campaign. Mr. Strzok\u200d famously said\u200b they would &#8220;stop&#8221; him from\u2064 becoming president, and had described him as &#8220;an idiot,&#8221; &#8220;disaster,&#8221; &#8220;abysmal,&#8221; among other negative descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d[Trump is] not\u2062 ever going to become president, right?\u200b Right?!\u201d Ms. Page wrote in one text.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. No he\u2063 won\u2019t. We\u2019ll stop it,\u201d Mr. Strzok responded.<\/p>\n<p>In other texts, they discussed a &#8220;media leak strategy&#8221; with the DOJ to spread information about the president \u2064and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will make your head spin to realize how many stories we played a personal role in,&#8221; Ms. Page wrote to Mr. Strzok in\u200b 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the DOJ investigated the two, but the \u200bfinal report found no &#8220;political \u2064bias&#8221; or &#8220;improper \u2062considerations&#8221; in their work. However, the texts \u201ccast a cloud over the\u2062 entire FBI investigation,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>In Mr. \u2064Stzrok&#8217;s lawsuit, he alleges the entire Trump administration was \u2064discriminatory as evidenced by the\u200c treatment of some of \u2064the president&#8217;s aides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Trump Administration has consistently tolerated and even\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-be-questioned-under-oath-about-fbi-employees-suing-doj\/\" title=\"Trump will be questioned under oath about FBI employees suing DOJ.\">encouraged partisan political speech<\/a> by federal employees, as long as this\u200c speech praises President Trump and attacks\u2062 his political adversaries,&#8221; \u2064the lawsuit reads, arguing that\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-ignores-vp-harris-staff-exodus\/\" title=\"Media Ignores VP Harris Staff Exodus\">high-profile staffers<\/a> were allowed to &#8220;violate the Hatch Act with impunity,&#8221; suggesting they\u200d illegally participated in political activities as civil\u200b servants.<\/p>\n<p>The government argued that the\u2063 case should be dismissed, as Mr. \u2064Strzok\u200d was properly dismissed, \u2063and\u2062 the texts were not illegally released.<\/p>\n<p>In his key role in the two high-profile investigations, a &#8220;higher \u200cburden of caution&#8221;\u2063 was imposed on him, and he failed to meet it, reads the government motion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is because of those text messages, and \u2063the paramount importance of preserving the FBI\u2019s ability to function as a trusted, nonpartisan institution, that Plaintiff was\u200c removed from his position, and not \u2064because of any alleged disagreement with Plaintiff\u2019s\u2063 viewpoints on \u200bpolitical issues or Tweets from the President,&#8221; the filing reads.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why is \u200bthe deposition of former President Trump considered a significant\u200c development in\u200d the case brought by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page\u200d against the DOJ? \u2063What has President Trump&#8217;s response been to the \u200cinvestigation and the possibility of testifying<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ibed an &#8220;insurance policy&#8221; \u200din case Trump won the election. These texts have been\u200b cited by\u2064 Trump and \u200dhis supporters as evidence of a biased\u200b investigation.<\/p>\n<h2>Lisa\u200d Page<\/h2>\n<p>Ms. Page, who was an\u2064 attorney at the FBI, resigned from\u200b the agency in May 2018. She claims that her\u200d texts with Mr. Strzok were disclosed without her consent, and she is suing\u2064 the DOJ for\u2064 violating her privacy rights. In her lawsuit, she argues that the \u2062agency released the texts in order\u2063 to appease President Trump and his \u2064allies.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Page&#8217;s texts with Mr. Strzok revealed an intimate\u2062 relationship between the two and\u2063 included \u200bderogatory remarks about Trump.\u200b The messages were exchanged during the 2016 presidential campaign,\u2063 while both individuals were involved in the investigation into Russian interference.<\/p>\n<h2>The Lawsuit<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page filed separate\u200d lawsuits against the DOJ, which have now been combined. They\u200c allege that the agency acted under pressure\u200c from President Trump in taking action against them, and that their\u2062 firings\u2064 were politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>They argue \u200dthat President Trump \u200brepeatedly targeted them \u2064on\u200c social \u200bmedia and called\u200b for their\u2064 termination, which influenced the\u200b DOJ&#8217;s decision. \u2063They claim that their\u200d First Amendment rights were violated,\u200b as their personal beliefs and private conversations\u200d were used\u2063 against them in\u200b a professional context.<\/p>\n<h2>The Deposition<\/h2>\n<p>The deposition of former President Trump is a significant development in\u2062 this case.\u200c It is rare for a sitting or\u2064 former president to be deposed, especially in a case involving\u200b government employees.<\/p>\n<p>President\u200d Trump has \u200dexpressed his \u2062willingness to testify and has criticized the investigation into his campaign&#8217;s ties with Russia as a \u200b&#8221;hoax&#8221;. Meanwhile,\u2064 the DOJ has argued \u2063that his deposition is \u200bunnecessary, as other witnesses have already provided information on his involvement.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>The\u2064 deposition of former President Trump in the case brought by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page against the DOJ marks an important moment \u200bin the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lin-wood-is-a-state-witness-in-trump-election-case-da-says\/\" title=\"DA says Lin Wood is a key witness in Trump election case.\">ongoing legal challenges surrounding<\/a> the investigation into \u200cRussian \u2064interference and alleged bias within the FBI. This deposition allows for a clearer understanding of the events and\u200c motivations\u200d that influenced the\u2064 actions of the DOJ and its employees.<\/p>\n<p>While the outcome of this \u2064case\u2062 remains uncertain, it highlights the complex and contentious intersection of politics, law enforcement, and personal privacy. \u2062The depositions will shed\u200c light\u200c on the inner \u2062workings of the DOJ and the extent of political influence on its decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-new-charges-in-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"Trump denies new charges in classified documents case.\">legal proceedings continue<\/a>, the public and legal experts\u2063 will closely watch the developments in this case,\u2064 which has\u2063 far-reaching\u2064 implications for the integrity and independence\u2064 of government institutions and the rights \u200cof individuals within them. Only time will \u200dtell\u200b how this case will be \u2064resolved\u2064 and what \u2064impact it will have\u200c on future investigations and the relationship between politics and \u200claw enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump will be deposed on Tuesday in a case filed by two ex-FBI employees against the Department of Justice. 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