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Lisa Page Breaks Her Silence After Years Of Being Put Through 'MAGA Meat Grinder' By Donald Trump

Trump's 'demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,' she says.

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Lisa Page (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

It’s very painful to see to places like the FBI and the Department of Justice that represent so much of what is excellent about this country, not fulfilling the critical obligation that they have to speak truth to power. The thing about the FBI that is so extraordinary is that it is made up of a group of men and women whose every instinct is to run toward the fight. It’s in the fiber of everybody there. It’s the lifeblood. So it’s particularly devastating to be betrayed by an organization I still care about so deeply. And it’s crushing to see the noble Justice Department, my Justice Department, the place I grew up in, feel like it’s abandoned its principles of truth and independence.

— Lisa Page, the former FBI lawyer who exchanged disparaging personal text messages about Donald Trump with Peter Strzok, former deputy chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, while investigating the president for possible collusion with Russia, in comments given during her first interview since news of the scandal broke. Next week, the Justice Department is expected to exonerate Page on allegations that she acted unprofessionally or showed political bias against Trump. “[T]here’s no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason,” she said.

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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