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Please forgive the lengthy post upcoming--but I've gotten several constituent questions about all the FBI information we've been seeing on the news lately. Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, text messages, memos, etc. Many people want to know why it's important or why any of it matters.

So what I want to do is explain the context around the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page text messages you've maybe heard about on the news, and explain why they're connected to both the Hillary Clinton investigation from 2016 and this so-called "Russian-collusion" investigation going on now.

To start, during this post remember the key figure here: Peter Strzok, the former deputy of counter-intelligence at the FBI. Guy who ran the 2016 Clinton investigation, who interviewed key witnesses including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, and Hillary Clinton. Former Mueller team member. Peter Strzok is the guy here.

We have all these anti-Trump texts in 2016 from Peter Strzok, talking about an "insurance policy" in case Trump gets elected President. We have texts from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page saying "We can't take the risk" Trump wins the Presidency. If you Google those texts, you can find them and read them yourself. By itself, these texts are a huge problem.

But there's more. We now have a text between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, FBI agents, directly talking about the pressure to finish the Hillary Clinton investigation--a text which occurred right after Donald J. Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee for President.

This text I'm referencing is from May 4, 2016 where Peter Strzok says: “Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE…” (or 'Mid-Year Exam,' the FBI’s code name for the Clinton investigation.) May 4, 2016 is important--because it's when Ted Cruz dropped out of the primary. That day, Trump became the presumptive nominee.

So we have Peter Strzok, the deputy of FBI counter-intelligence and lead Clinton investigator, who we already know blasted Trump many times in text messages, talking about the need to end the Clinton investigation... right after he knew Hillary Clinton would be running against Trump for President. Major problem.

Now pause, and circle over to FBI Director James Comey. Remember Director Comey's 'Clinton exoneration' letter? The letter from 2016 that, at first, called Hillary Clinton "grossly negligent" but was mysteriously changed to "extremely careless"? That change is MASSIVELY important.

Why is it important? Remember, "gross negligence," under what's called the "reasonable person standard," is a crime. "Extreme carelessness" is not a crime, however. That change between those two phrases is HUGELY significant. Had Director Comey called Hillary "grossly negligent" in his letter, he would've essentially been saying she committed a crime.

Now take that letter change, and go back to Peter Strzok. Congress has email documentation that suggests the "gross negligence" claim in Director Comey's exoneration letter was changed to "extremely careless" between May 4, 2016 and May 6, 2016... and it was changed by none other than Peter Strzok.

Think about how important that is. We have a text from Peter Strzok talking about the pressure to end the Clinton investigation, and then--within 48 hours of that text--documents suggesting Peter Strzok changed Dir. Comey's letter from criminal charges to just "carelessness." That's major.

Folks, this stinks to high heaven. If this is anything what it looks like--the FBI changing course on investigation, putting their thumb on the scale to undermine Donald Trump and essentially help Hillary Clinton--that is as wrong as it gets. This demands further investigation.

And remember, this doesn't even address a host of other questions! The dossier. The Carter Page FISA application (that they still won't show us). The 5 months of mysteriously "missing" Page/Strzok texts. The FBI communicating with Fusion GPS/DNC-hired Christopher Steele. Strzok/Page texts talking about how Loretta Lynch "knew Hillary wouldn't be charged" before the FBI had even interviewed Hillary. Come on.

This is not party politics. This is not partisan bickering. This is an issue that gets at the very heart of who we are as a nation. If any officials at the FBI were engaged in this kind of behavior, we need to know.

Bottom line: tell us the truth. Tell us the truth about what happened with the Clinton investigation, the 2016 election, and leading up to this "collusion" investigation. All of it. Americans deserve the truth.