Thoughts on the Collapse of the Strzok Conspiracy Theory

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By Josh Marshall

January 31, 2018 6:03 p.m.

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My colleague David Kurtz makes a very good point about this afternoon’s Peter Strzok revelation. Before getting to that good point, let me review the news. Strzok is the high-ranking FBI counter-intelligence agent who was removed from the Mueller probe over anti-Trump texts he’d shared with another FBI employee he was then having an affair with. Strzok and his then-girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, have become the centerpiece of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory which posits an FBI/Deep State cabal manufacturing the Russia probe to delegitimize and destroy Trump’s presidency.

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