Comey Gives ‘Very Painful’ Response When Asked About Anti-Trump FBI Employees

On Thursday night, former FBI Director James Comey — who was unceremoniously fired by President Trump in May 2017 and who has since made a point of publicly undermining Trump’s presidency — participated in a CNN town hall in which he was asked about the impact the role of anti-Trump former FBI agent Peter Strzok and his paramour, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, had on the credibility of bureau and the investigation into Trump. Comey gave a “very painful” answer.

Strzok and Page have repeatedly found themselves in headlines, and official inquiries, because of their correspondence while they were both employed by the FBI in 2016 and 2017 about Trump, for whom they repeatedly displayed their hostility. Strzok headed up the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server and was a member of Robert Mueller’s team in the early stages of the “collusion” investigation before the special counsel was forced to remove him after his problematic anti-Trump messages came to light. Just Monday, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson highlighting yet another text from Strzok to Page that raised more questions about the intelligence community’s role in leaks to the media concerning the Trump-Russia investigation.