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FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts

WASHINGTON - Peter Strzok, the FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages to a colleague during the 2016 campaign have been cited by the president as evidence of bias within the agency, has been fired.

Strzok initially helped lead the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections and possible complicity by the Trump campaign, which remained secret until after the election. When his texts with an FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, were disclosed last year by the agency's inspector general, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III immediately removed Strzok from the team.

Strzok had initially been demoted and

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