1 Feb 2018 6:49 pm
Well there goes that theory.The conspiracy theories surrounding FBI agent Peter Strzok may have just taken a big blow.
It turns out that the FBI agent who many conservatives believe secretly plotted to take down President Donald Trump may have actually helped get the president elected.
CNN has obtained emails that show that FBI agent Peter Strzok co-wrote the first draft of the letter that then-FBI Director James Comey sent to Congress in October 2016, announcing that the bureau was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
That letter set off a political firestorm just 11 days before the presidential election and hurt Clinton at the polls — so much so that it may have swung the election in favor of Trump.
This development potentially throws a wrench in conservative theories that Strzok sought to undermine Trump in the run-up to the election, and that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is tainted by anti-Trump bias.
And according to a source familiar with Strzok’s thinking, CNN reports, the former FBI agent not only drafted the letter about reopening Clinton’s email server investigation, but also supported reopening the investigation.