Kristy Swanson’s decades-long film and TV career began by reading lines from a “Bad News Bears” script.
The pre-teen Swanson knew some of her school mates had tried out for commercial appearances and figured she could, too.
And then some, as it turned out.
She ended up starring in genre-defining comedies like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” crushing cameos in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and, later, becoming one of Hollywood’s few, proud conservatives.
The latter paved the way for “ObamaGate: The Movie,” a film excoriating the FBI’s malfeasance in the Russian collusion hoax.
Swanson says she first got the acting “bug” by singing in church and appearing in local productions in Downey, California. Her parents, unabashed Christian conservatives, eagerly supporter her passions.
To a point.
They weren’t clamoring for their daughter to go Hollywood, given the negative influences that could await her.
She persisted. They relented.
Her family met with a children’s agent and Swanson landed the first two commercial gigs that came her way, thanks partly to her impressive reading of a “Bad News Bears” scene.
“I was on a roll at the very beginning,” she says, but her parents were watching every step of the way.
“They weren’t helicopter parents, but they were cautious and careful,” she recalls.
Young Swanson could sing and dance, but she eventually focused her energy on acting.
Smart move.
Commercial work eventually gave way to film and TV roles in her teens, made possible, in part, by being emancipated at the age of 14. Her parents homeschooled her while she kept piling up the acting credits.
“I had more freedom to work longer hours on set,” she explains of her legal status, adding that producers benefited by casting someone like her rather than 18 year olds playing down their ages.
Two small but consequential roles in John Hughes films — “Pretty in Pink” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” — pushed her profile higher, leading to sizable acting gigs in movies like “Flowers in the Attic” and “Mannequin: On the Move.”
Some of her peer group fell victim to 80s excess, but Swanson avoided those detours.
“I never brought my work home with me … I tried to have a normal life and not be attached to the Hollywood scene,” she says. “I just loved working.”
She still saw those unsavory influences around the edges of her Hollywood life.
“I was fortunate enough to never fall into any trouble, like casting couches or inappropriateness,” she says. “I certainly have stories, but they were always nipped in the bud in the get-go.”
She credits “instincts” with helping her avoid career pitfalls, adding many of the dubious characters in the industry left her alone.
“They knew I wasn’t easy to persuade,” she says.
All the while Swanson hid a secret so overwhelming she feared it might derail her career. She suffered from learning disabilities that made script reading a challenge.
“If everybody ever knew I was dyslexic I wouldn’t get hired,” the original “Vampire Slayer” says. “I hid it my entire career.”
Home schooling helped, but the accompanying shame wasn’t so easily conquered.
Swanson didn’t give much attention to politics early in her career. Some projects, like her work on TV’s “Call to Glory,” exposed her to glimpses of Beltway politics. She “loved” President Ronald Reagan and, later, felt uneasy about President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office.
Still, she kept her focus on her art and hid any right-of-center sentiments.
“I’d get the evil eye,” she says after sharing a smattering of non-liberal views. “I learned to keep my mouth shut.”
Then she met a prominent member of Friends of Abe, a secret society of Hollywood conservatives.
“Everything changed,” she says. “I got to know those guys and I found a family. I was shocked to find some of the people I didn’t know were conservative.”
She didn’t go “public-public” with her conservative thoughts, though, until a certain real estate mogul ran for the presidency.
“Chelsea Handler said something horrible about Melania [Trump], ‘She can’t even speak English,’” Swanson recalls. “I was like, ‘Way to make Hollywood look tolerant.’”
Suddenly, Tucker Carlson was calling to have her on the air.
“I’m never nasty to someone unless they’re nasty first,” she says of her social media demeanor.
Swanson brings some of that swagger to the role of Lisa Page, the disgraced FBI agent, in “ObamaGate: The Movie.” The role found Swanson recreating Page’s “performance” during congressional testimony as well as her now-infamous flirtations with fellow agent Peter Strzok, played by Dean Cain.
“She was doing bad things and was very arrogant about it. She wanted to make herself look human,” she says.
Swanson had to improvise while creating the character since there’s little video footage of Page from which to work. So she spent 45 minutes on the phone with someone who worked with Page. One word echoed through the conversation:
Arrogant.
Swanson reprises the Page role from last year’s play, “FBI Lovebirds: Undercovers,” which focused on Page’s relationship to fellow agent Peter Stzrok and their attempts to pin Russian collusion on President Trump. Only Swanson had never performed on the stage prior to the production.
“I can’t do that. I have stage fright. I’m not used to being in front of a live audience,” she told her potential co-star.
“You can do it!” Cain told her. “He’s such a cheerleader.”
The effort behind both productions mattered more than just conquering a personal fear.
“It’s important for people to hear that story … I’m not forcing it on anybody. It’s there, it’s real, and I know because I read it,” she says of a film that could have been three hours long given all the verbatim testimony, texts, and tweets compiled for the production.
As is, “ObamaGate: The Movie” does what film so often does — process reams of information into digestible bits.
“It’s an easier way to understand it and learn about it. Who’s going to sit down and read all of that?” she asks. “It takes an hour to watch it … it may inspire someone to dig deeper [into the matters].”
Swanson can next be seen in “Courting Mom and Dad,” a Pure Flix original co-starring fellow conservative actor Scott Baio. The current pandemic hasn’t helped snag her many new roles, but she appreciates being part of a MAGA movement filled with positive vibes.
“Everyone wants to make America great again and focus on our country,” she says. “I really enjoyed meeting all those people.”
The life of a working actress involves ebbs and flows, but she’s grateful for even the slower than usual moments in her career.
“Being able to work, to make a living, get married and have a baby, it’s been comfortable. I get to raise my child. I’m not away from him. That’s been great,” she says. “I consider myself blessed.”
And, as the now 50-year-old star ages into different roles, she’s ready for the challenge.
“I look forward to playing the grandma one day,” she says.

Kristy Swanson

How Kristy Swanson Embraced Being A Conservative, Brought ‘ObamaGate’ to Life

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Lisa Page

“Obamagate: The Movie” isn’t for the casual viewer. No, audiences should have a general sense of both the Russian collusion hoax that roiled the nation for more than two years as well as how the media framed every fraudulent second of it. That context makes “Obamagate” a delicious riposte to the spin we’ve endured. The production (which you can watch in full below) is muscular update on “FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers,” the 2019 play featuring Kristy Swanson and Dean Cain as disgraced agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, respectively.
<a href="https://obamagatethemovie.com/">The film version</a>, bolstered by new revelations gleaned since that play hit a D.C. theater, makes little attempt to disguise its theatrical roots, down to the audience chuckles. The narrative begs for a full-bodied Hollywood production, with all the appropriate bells and whistles that entails. Since no studio would go near this accurate narrative, it took provocateur Phelim McAleer and co., aided by a successful crowdfunding campaign, to make it happen.
The heart of the story proves his instincts anew.
Swanson and Cain’s characters flirt and flaunt their willingness to target then-candidate Donald Trump throughout the production. The dialogue, pure Verbatim Theatre, draws their conversations from the text messages they fired back and forth over several months.
That leaves us with credible chats that feel real and raw. It’s a nasty peek at Beltway life from two consummate “Swamp” creatures.
The texts allow for a sweet running gag where the stars spit out the emoticons capping their missives. That grown men and women use them to this degree offers a sly social commentary all on its own, but the bigger points remain.
These two self-absorbed agents let their political biases get the better of them, letting down the country in the process.
Swanson’s Page can be “Mean Girls” cruel at times, but she’s a piker compared to Strzok. Cain spits out his insults, which start with attacks on former Rep. Paul Ryan but mostly target Trump.
Still, Dr. Ben Carson, Sen. Mitch McConnell and even Glenn Beck get derisively name checked by the duo, more proof that their actions were far from neutral.
Of course, an FBI agent can believe whatever he or she wants without scrutiny, but when we witness a deeply flawed investigation smacking of a coup, it’s time to sniff out the clues.
“Obamagate” nearly capsizes with them.
Kudos to Cain and Swanson for making their characters as three dimensional as possible. Sure, the audience hisses at the right moments as they lean into their political biases.
The veteran players round out their villainy with softer tones. Swanson, in particular, radiates vulnerability when she longs to leave political life to spend more time with her family.
The line could have rung hollow, but Swanson gives it the proper pathos.
Cain’s Strzok, by comparison, is endlessly competent and cagey. Watch him maneuver around damning texts offers a wonderful character study. He’s smart, slick and unwilling to admit to a mistake, any mistake.
That’s true even when asked to defend texts mocking Walmart shoppers as, well, odious. It’s a nasty comment, but Strzok won’t cop to its obvious truth.
On a gut level it’s hard not to savor his stubborn streak.
Progressive productions too often demonize their conservative villains, stripping of both their humanity and nuance in the process. “Obamagate” offers a more full-bodied take on Strzok and Page without leaving out their “greatest hits.”
Yes, their “insurance policy” exchange gets an extreme closup.
A sharp screenwriter could leave us with similar impressions. Instead, the actual texts and testimonies (credit to screenwriters McAleer and Brian Godawa for putting them all together) do it as well as any original screenplay might.
The film’s stage origins are forgivable, but the stars’ leaning on lines just off camera are much less so. It’s likely Team “Obamagate” worked overtime to release the film in time for the 2020 elections, much like much of Hollywood dumped anti-Trump content on the October schedule for the same reason.
Still, it’s distracting and doesn’t allow the stars to consistently engage with their characters.
“Obamagate” would be dull if it focused solely on the Strzok/Page connection. It breaks up their banter with two sizable subplots. We see both former CIA Director John Brennan (Paul Michael Nieman) clutching a teddy bear, share ominous Tweets about Trump’s Russian connections.
Even better is former “Dynasty” star John James, clad in a Boy Scout uniform, reading FBI Director James Comey’s texts. He sells them as they should be peddled, grandiose snippets that tease his arrogant mien.
Arrogance courses through “Obamagate,” especially when Strzok is center stage. He’s too smart for government, too aware of its many flaws.
We’re also privy to Congressional transcripts where Page and Strzok get grilled for their text relationship, and its greater implications.
Strzok and Page spoke so fluidly about their Trump rage, never worrying their texts could come back to haunt them. Those less familiar with the FBI’s negligent behavior regarding collusion, and that’s being kind, may be aghast at what they see.
That’s on purpose.
Verbatim Theater has its limitations, but “Obamagate” sneaks around most of them. The modest directorial cues make the most of the clever edits and asides. Plus, the production wraps with a narrative “kill shot” that puts a dagger in the Russian collusion heart.
And that’s before we’ve learned even more about the fatally flawed investigation in recent weeks, its ties to Hillary Clinton and how some FBI agents lunged for <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/flynn-case-bombshell-fbi-analysts-bought-insurance">insurance policies</a> for fear their actions would be called into question.
Those agents may never face the full consequences for their actions. For now, “Obamagate’s” blistering truths will have to suffice.
Watch the full film below:
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WATCH: ‘Obamagate: The Movie’ Exposes Anti-Trump FBI Bias, Media Spin

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An FBI lawyer who was dismissed from the special counsel investigation into Russian collusion has been hired as a legal and national security analyst for MSNBC.
Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump texts with fired FBI agent Peter Strzok got her removed from Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election, was announced as MSNBC’s latest hire Friday evening.
“JUST ANNOUNCED: <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC">@MSNBC</a> welcomes Former FBI Lawyer <a href="https://twitter.com/NatSecLisa">@NatSecLisa</a> as an NBC News &amp; MSNBC National Security &amp; Legal Analyst,” the channel’s public relations account tweeted.
As Mueller investigated the Trump campaign (he ultimately discovered no evidence of collusion, despite years of media headlines claiming the opposite), text messages between Strzok and Page became public in a June 2018 Inspector General’s report. The two employees were having an affair (Page is married) and sent each other texts expressing anti-Trump sentiments in early August 2016 – ahead of the election. At one point, Page asked Strzok if Trump would become president. Strzok responded: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” The pair also discussed an “insurance policy” for if Trump were to win the election.
Following the release of the text messages, Page resigned from the FBI. Strzok was removed from Mueller’s investigation.
In December 2019, Page sued the Department of Justice and the FBI after Trump mocked her texts with Strzok at a campaign rally. Page claimed Trump made “fake orgasm” noises when he mocked her (he used a breathy voice, but did not make a “fake orgasm” noise), and portrayed herself as a victim, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-anti-trump-fbi-lawyer-sues-justice-department-fbi-after-trumps-fake-orgasm">reported</a>.
In her lawsuit, Page claimed the DOJ and FBI violated the Privacy Act by disclosing her text messages.
“The Privacy Act was enacted to protect individual privacy interests,” the complaint read. “Agency records can, and often do, contain highly sensitive personal information, including documentation of criminal history, medical records, financial transactions, personnel actions, private conversations, personal contacts, and other sensitive material. As relevant here, the statute bars the DOJ, the FBI, and other federal agencies from disclosing a covered record ‘about’ an individual unless an exception applies or the individual who is the subject of the record consents in writing to the disclosure. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a. The statute contains no general exception permitting an agency to disclose covered records to the media.”
As The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/06/ex-fbi-lawyer-lisa-page-makes-debut-as-msnbc-legal-analyst/">reported</a>, “MSNBC commentators have defended both Page and Strzok over the years by dismissing their text messages as merely personal criticisms, separate from their FBI work.”
Page is also not the only disgraced intelligence community official to get rewarded with a television contract. Former Director of the CIA, John Brennan, received a national security and intelligence analyst gig at NBC News and MSNBC. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was found to have lied to the bureau, received a contract with CNN as an analyst. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also received a CNN contract.
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MSNBC Hires Disgraced Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page As An Analyst

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In an action she says was sparked by President Trump supposedly acting out a &#8220;demeaning fake orgasm&#8221; when referencing her at a rally in October, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump text messages with her paramour former FBI agent Peter Strzok made national headlines, has filed a lawsuit against the bureau and the Justice Department for what she clams is &#8220;unlawful disclosure of information about her to the media, in violation of the Privacy Act.&#8221;
&#8220;Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,&#8221; Page told <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/lisa-page-speaks-theres-no-fathomable-way-i-have-committed-any-crime-at-all">The Daily Beast</a> earlier this month in explanation for why she was planning to file a lawsuit against her former employer. &#8220;I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse. It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.&#8221;
Page&#8217;s &#8220;fake orgasm&#8221; claim is a reference to Trump&#8217;s dramatic interpretation at a rally of some of the texts between Page and Strzok, with whom Page was having an adulterous affair in 2016. Many commentators argue that while Trump&#8217;s mocking reference to the Page and Strzok texts was clearly intended to be &#8220;demeaning,&#8221; it contains no &#8220;fake orgasm.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a video of the moment that made the rounds online:
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Cry more, homewrecker <a href="https://t.co/vxDlrU92R7">pic.twitter.com/vxDlrU92R7</a>
&mdash; Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1201334546438008832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday, Page filed her <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/former-fbi-lawyer-lisa-page-sues-justice-department-and-fbi">lawsuit</a> against the DOJ and FBI &#8220;to hold them accountable for their unlawful disclosure of information about her to the media, in violation of the Privacy Act.&#8221;
&#8220;The Privacy Act was enacted to protect individual privacy interests,&#8221; the complaint reads. &#8220;Agency records can, and often do, contain highly sensitive personal information, including documentation of criminal history, medical records, financial transactions, personnel actions, private conversations, personal contacts, and other sensitive material. As relevant here, the statute bars the DOJ, the FBI, and other federal agencies from disclosing a covered record &#8216;about&#8217; an individual unless an exception applies or the individual who is the subject of the record consents in writing to the disclosure. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a. The statute contains no general exception permitting an agency to disclose covered records to the media.&#8221;
It was that law, Page alleges, that the Justice Department and the bureau violated by releasing hundreds of her text exchanges with her former paramour.
&#8220;On December 12, 2017, Defendants violated the Privacy Act by unlawfully disclosing agency records pertaining to Plaintiff—namely, a 90-page document reflecting 375 text messages between Plaintiff and another FBI employee—to a group of reporters,&#8221; the lawsuit reads. &#8220;At the time, the messages were part of a larger set of materials under review by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (“DOJ OIG” or “OIG”) for evidence of potential bias in the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server for government communications (known internally as the “Midyear Exam” or “Midyear” investigation). Although the OIG review was not yet complete, the officials who authorized the disclosure and their allies sought to use, and ultimately did use, the messages to promote the false narrative that Plaintiff and others at the FBI were biased against President Trump, had conspired to undermine him, and otherwise had engaged in allegedly criminal acts, including treason.&#8221;
On the basis of suspecting anti-Trump bias, the department and/or the bureau &#8220;disclosed the messages to reporters for multiple improper reasons, including to elevate DOJ’s standing with the President following the President’s repeated public attacks of the Department and its head, Attorney General Jefferson B. Sessions III.&#8221;
&#8220;They did so by summoning DOJ beat reporters to the Department to review the messages at night, prohibiting the reporters from copying or removing the set of messages from the building, and instructing them not to reveal DOJ as the source,&#8221; Page alleges. &#8220;This clandestine approach is inconsistent with the disclosure of agency records for transparency purposes or to advance the public interest.&#8221;
Though the Inspector General&#8217;s report ultimately &#8220;found no evidence of bias affecting any investigative decisions in the FBI’s Midyear investigation,&#8221; the complaint reads, it was too late for Page&#8217;s reputation.
&#8220;By then, Defendants’ unlawful conduct had turned Plaintiff into a subject of frequent attacks by the President of the United States, as well as his allies and supporters,&#8221; her lawyers contend. &#8220;In the two years since the December 12 disclosure, the President has targeted Ms. Page by name in more than 40 tweets and dozens of interviews, press conferences, and statements from the White House, fueling unwanted media attention that has radically altered her day-to-day life.&#8221;
The suit explains that Page is bringing the complaint &#8220;to vindicate her rights under the Privacy Act and to recover damages of not less than $1,000, as well as reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs.&#8221;
Below is the full text of the summary of the complaint (<a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/former-fbi-lawyer-lisa-page-sues-justice-department-and-fbi">read the full complaint here</a>):
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<li>Plaintiff is a former FBI attorney. She brings this action against the DOJ and FBI to hold them accountable for their unlawful disclosure of information about her to the media, in violation of the Privacy Act.</li>
<li>The Privacy Act was enacted to protect individual privacy interests. Agency records can, and often do, contain highly sensitive personal information, including documentation of criminal history, medical records, financial transactions, personnel actions, private conversations, personal contacts, and other sensitive material. As relevant here, the statute bars the DOJ, the FBI, and other federal agencies from disclosing a covered record “about” an individual unless an exception applies or the individual who is the subject of the record consents in writing to the disclosure. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a. The statute contains no general exception permitting an agency to disclose covered records to the media.</li>
<li>On December 12, 2017, Defendants violated the Privacy Act by unlawfully disclosing agency records pertaining to Plaintiff—namely, a 90-page document reflecting 375 text messages between Plaintiff and another FBI employee—to a group of reporters. At the time, the messages were part of a larger set of materials under review by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (“DOJ OIG” or “OIG”) for evidence of potential bias in the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server for government communications (known internally as the “Midyear Exam” or “Midyear” investigation). Although the OIG review was not yet complete, the officials who authorized the disclosure and their allies sought to use, and ultimately did use, the messages to promote the false narrative that Plaintiff and others at the FBI were biased against President Trump, had conspired to undermine him, and otherwise had engaged in allegedly criminal acts, including treason.</li>
<li>On information and belief, DOJ and/or FBI officials disclosed the messages to reporters for multiple improper reasons, including to elevate DOJ’s standing with the President following the President’s repeated public attacks of the Department and its head, Attorney General Jefferson B. Sessions III. They did so by summoning DOJ beat reporters to the Department to review the messages at night, prohibiting the reporters from copying or removing the set of messages from the building, and instructing them not to reveal DOJ as the source. This clandestine approach is inconsistent with the disclosure of agency records for transparency purposes or to advance the public interest.</li>
<li>Ultimately, OIG found no evidence of bias affecting any investigative decisions in the FBI’s Midyear investigation, but the Inspector General’s report, issued six months after the December 12 disclosure, came too late. By then, Defendants’ unlawful conduct had turned Plaintiff into a subject of frequent attacks by the President of the United States, as well as his allies and supporters. In the two years since the December 12 disclosure, the President has targeted Ms. Page by name in more than 40 tweets and dozens of interviews, press conferences, and statements from the White House, fueling unwanted media attention that has radically altered her day-to-day life.</li>
<li>OIG conducted a separate review of the FBI’s investigation of possible coordination between members of the Trump campaign and the Russian government, which concluded in December of 2019. Once again, OIG found no evidence of bias affecting any of the investigative decisions it reviewed, including matters in which Ms. Page was involved. Thus, neither of the two relevant OIG inquiries found any evidence of bias that affected investigative decisions as a result of Ms. Page’s participation in the investigation.</li>
<li>Plaintiff brings this action to vindicate her rights under the Privacy Act and to recover damages of not less than $1,000, as well as reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs.</li>
</ol>

READ IT: Anti-Trump FBI Lawyer Sues Justice Department, FBI After Trump’s ‘Fake Orgasm’

President Donald Trump slammed disgraced former FBI lawyer Lisa Page on Monday after Page joined Twitter over the weekend and gave her first interview to the media in which she portrayed herself as a victim.
Trump tweeted: &#8220;When Lisa Page, the lover of Peter Strzok, talks about being &#8216;crushed&#8217;, and how innocent she is, ask her to read Peter’s &#8216;Insurance Policy&#8217; text, to her, just in case Hillary loses. Also, why were the lovers text messages scrubbed after he left Mueller. Where are they Lisa?&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s tweet came in response to Page joining Twitter over the weekend and giving her first media interview to a highly sympathetic writer.
Page, who was involved in an extramarital affair with fired FBI agent Peter Strzok, said that she decided to speak out now because she claimed Trump mocked her with a “fake orgasm” at a campaign rally eight weeks ago.
Page&#8217;s claim of why she decided to come forward now was met with skepticism online, as many were quick to point out that the highly anticipated report from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz into alleged FBI misconduct against the 2016 Trump campaign is set to be released within a matter of days.
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cry-more-homewrecker-ex-fbi-agent-lisa-page-blasted-over-puff-interview-portraying-herself-as-a-victim">noted</a> on Twitter: &#8220;Page is quoted saying something about how she decided to speak out (not because the IG report is about to make her and her cohorts look bad) but because Trump faked an orgasm to mock her for her infidelities.&#8221;
Page and Strzok, who worked on back-to-back investigations into then-candidate Trump and Hillary Clinton, exchanged numerous text messages that showed an extreme anti-Trump and pro-Clinton bias.
In an August 2016 exchange, Page <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/us/politics/fbi-texts-trump.html">asked</a> Strzok, “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
Strzok responded, “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”
Other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/strzok-strikes-back-sues-fbi-doj-being-fired-over-james-barrett">notable text messages</a> between the two:
March 3, 2016:
<blockquote>Page: “God trump is a loathsome human.”
Strzok: “Omg [Trump’s] an idiot.”
Page: &#8220;He’s awful.”
Strzok: “God Hillary should win 100,000,000-0.”</blockquote>
July 26, 2016, during the Democratic National Convention:
<blockquote>Page: “Yeah, it is pretty cool. [Clinton] just has to win now. I’m not going to lie, I got a flash of nervousness yesterday about trump. The sandernistas have the potential to make a very big mistake here …”
Strzok: “I’m not worried about them. I’m worried about the anarchist Assanges who will take fed information and disclose it to disrupt. We’ve gotta get the memo and brief and case filing done.”</blockquote>
July 31, 2016:
<blockquote>Strzok: “And damn [the opening of the investigation into possible Trump-Russia collusion] feels momentous. Because this matters. The other one [the Clinton investigation] did, too, but that was to ensure we didn’t F something up. This matters because this MATTERS. So super glad to be on this voyage with you.”</blockquote>
August 15, 2016:
<blockquote>Strzok: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s [Andrew McCabe] office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”</blockquote>
May 18, 2017:
<blockquote>Strzok: “For me, and this case [the Russia collusion investigation, which Strzok was a part of until being removed for bias], I personally have a sense of unfinished business. I unleashed it with [the Clinton investigation]. Now I need to fix it and finish it.”​
Strzok: “you and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there.”</blockquote>
November 9, 2016, the day after Trump won the election:
<blockquote>Page: “Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society.”</blockquote>

Trump Torches Disgraced Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page After She Joins Twitter, Gives Interview

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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page was slammed online Sunday night after an interview that portrayed her as a victim of President Donald Trump.
Page, who was engaged in an extramarital affair with disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok, said that she decided to speak out now not because of the soon-to-be-released report from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz into possible FBI misconduct but because she claims Trump mocked her with a &#8220;fake orgasm&#8221; at a campaign rally 8 weeks ago.
“Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Page said.
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway called out Page&#8217;s claim, writing on Twitter: &#8220;So I decide to try to read Lisa Page&#8217;s &#8216;woe is me&#8217; take about how she&#8217;s the real victim in the Russia hoax she participated in. Page is quoted saying something about how she decided to speak out (not because the IG report is about to make her and her cohorts look bad) but because Trump faked an orgasm to mock her for her infidelities, but the link substantiating this claim goes to a screed (and I do mean screed) that doesn&#8217;t explain the reference at all.&#8221;
&#8220;It goes to some sub-literate rant penned by a NeverTrumper. I THINK the claim of a faked orgasm is a reference to Trump just making fun of the married Peter Strzok and Page carrying on an affair while planning their various anti-Trump efforts,&#8221; Hemingway continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see how anyone remotely knowledgeable [If You Know What I Mean, And I Think You Do] could describe this as a faked orgasm.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s video of the moment from the Trump rally that Page appears to be referencing:
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Cry more, homewrecker <a href="https://t.co/vxDlrU92R7">pic.twitter.com/vxDlrU92R7</a>
&mdash; Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1201334546438008832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse,” Page continued. “It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.”
Fox News&#8217; Gregg Re <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lisa-page-breaks-silence-saying-trumps-fake-orgasm-forced-her-to-speak-out">noted</a> that Page, who gave the interview to The Daily Beast, received a &#8220;highly sympathetic profile authored by Molly Jong-Fast, who called Strzok &#8216;hawt&#8217; in a tweet last year.&#8221;
Strzok was fired from the FBI, and Page quit after months of their text messages being released to the public revealing their extreme anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton bias — two political figures that Page and Strzok were involved in investigating.
Online, Page was widely mocked over the interview.
Comfortably Smug, a popular right-leaning account, <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1201332406416035840">wrote</a>: &#8220;You&#8217;re going to prison, homewrecker.&#8221;
Radio host Michael Berry <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelBerrySho/status/1201345804134473728">wrote</a>: &#8220;Don&#8217;t let them gag you any longer, Lisa!&#8221;
Senior Federalist contributor Benjamin Weingarten <a href="https://twitter.com/bhweingarten/status/1201325014328467457">wrote</a>: &#8220;Imagine thinking yourself the victim for receiving criticism in response to your engaging in conduct personal, political and professional that imperils, corrupts and undermines our system of government.&#8221;
Columnist Stephen Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1201336209756147713">wrote</a>: &#8220;Lisa Page saw how media lionized Katie Hill and thought yep time to get in on this racket.&#8221;
Heritage employee Lyndsey Fifield mocked the author of the interview, <a href="https://twitter.com/lyndseyfifield/status/1201341385309409280">writing</a>: &#8220;This is aggressively bad &#8216;reporting&#8217; even for 
@MollyJongFast my Lord.&#8221;