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Peter Strzok sues FBI for firing him over anti-Trump texts

By ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran FBI agent who wrote
derogatory text messages about Donald Trump filed
a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the bureau caved
to “unrelenting pressure” from the president when it
fired him.
The suit from Peter Strzok also alleges he was unfairly
punished for expressing his political opinions, and that
the Justice Department violated his privacy when it
shared hundreds of his text messages with reporters.
“This campaign to publicly vilify Special Agent Strzok
contributed to the FBI’s ultimate decision to unlaw-
fully terminate him,” the lawsuit says, “as well as to fre-
quent incidents of public and online harassment and
threats of violence to Strzok and his family that began
when the texts were first disclosed to the media and
continue to this day.”
The complaint, which names as defendants Attorney
General William Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray, re-
visits a political drama that was seized on by conser-
vative critics of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Rus-
sia investigation as proof that the bureau was biased In this July 12, 2018, file photo, then-FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, testifies before a House
against Trump. Judiciary Committee joint hearing on “oversight of FBI and Department of Justice actions surrounding
Continued on Page 2 the 2016 election” on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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