“Targeted for retribution”: Trump’s brag badly backfires as judge orders him to sit for deposition

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that two former FBI officials can depose former President Donald Trump as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit after he bragged about firing them.

Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two former FBI officials that were part of special counsel Bob Mueller’s team before they were targeted by Trump over text messages disparaging his 2016 candidacy, will be allowed to depose Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray for up to two hours as part of their lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled, according to Politico.

But Jackson left open the question of whether President Joe Biden will invoke executive privilege over any aspects of Trump’s testimony, asking the Justice Department to respond within a month on what Biden plans to do.

Jackson, an Obama appointee, also stressed that she has not yet considered all potential objections from Trump and Wray, which “could include arguments by Trump that he has the unilateral right as a former president to assert executive privilege,” according to Politico.

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Strzok and Page argue that they were “illegally targeted for retribution,” according to The Washington Post. Strzok, a former top counterintelligence agent, is seeking backpay and reinstatement. Page, a former FBI lawyer, sued the bureau and the DOJ for releasing a trove of her messages that showed she was having an affair with Strzok at the time…

“Targeted for retribution”: Trump’s brag badly backfires as judge orders him to sit for deposition (msn.com)