Former FBI agent Peter Strzok lost his lawsuit against the Justice Department and FBI on Tuesday after a federal judge found that his lawyers failed to prove his dismissal from the bureau violated his First Amendment rights.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in 2019 during President Donald Trump’s first term, Strzok argued that his FBI superiors illegally fired him in retaliation for sending text messages that criticized the president.
Trump, Strzok’s attorneys argued, was irate about the texts he sent while investigating alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, and FBI brass fired him to appease the White House.
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