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On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was put through the wringer by House Republicans in an open hearing to discuss the derogatory text messages sent by anti-Trump/pro-Hillary FBI officials. The texts included name-calling directed at Trump but also included a cryptic message about an “insurance policy” for the “risk” of a Trump presidency. The coverage of the texts varied wildly among the network evening newscasts; from no texts shown to covering up the officials’ relation to certain FBI investigations.
The FBI officials in question were investigator Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page. Their messages were released as part of a probe into how the FBI ran the Clinton e-mail probe.
The coverage by ABC, CBS, and NBC varied so much, it’s best, to begin with, what none of them covered. None of the networks mentioned that Strzok and Page were in a romantic relationship, which was why they sent nearly 10,000 messages to each other. On top of that, they didn’t mention that Strzok once sent a cryptic and unsettling anti-Trump message to Page that read:
I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office – that there’s no way he gets elected - but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…
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