FBI's Strzok Denies Anti-Trump Texts Showed Plot, Lawmakers Say
- He describes an ‘intimate conversation,’ House Democrat says
- Republicans intend Thursday vote to demand DOJ documents
FBI agent Peter P. Strzok on Capitol Hill, on June 27.
Photographer: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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The FBI agent whose anti-Trump text exchanges in 2016 fed Republican allegations of bias in the bureau said Wednesday that he regrets those messages but denied political favoritism, according to lawmakers who heard him defend his actions.
“Just an intimate conversation between intimate friends" that he now regrets, was how Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, quoted Peter Strzok’s description of a controversial exchange with Lisa Page, an FBI attorney with whom he was romantically involved at the time. Strzok was interviewed behind closed doors Wednesday by members and staff of two House committees.