Oh, this one feels like the walls are closing in, doesn’t it?
Peter Strzok — the infamous former FBI counterintelligence agent who practically became the face of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation — just hit the digital panic button. As of Monday, every single post on his X account? Gone. Wiped. Nuked. And it’s not happening in a vacuum.
This comes just days after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped two massive troves of documents — and a bombshell memo — laying out what she’s calling a “years-long coup” against Donald Trump after he defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016. Strzok, of course, wasn’t just a side character in that drama.
He was one of the key players. The guy who intervened to keep the Michael Flynn investigation open. The same Strzok whose “we’ll stop him” texts with FBI attorney Lisa Page became Exhibit A for claims of bias inside the Bureau. And now? Gabbard’s referred the whole mess to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation — with a special “strike force” eyeing none other than James Comey and John Brennan as potential targets. That’s not just Washington gossip. That’s serious.
And here’s the kicker: while Strzok has been living his post-FBI life as an MSNBC contributor and Georgetown professor, lecturing America about national security and warning about Trump’s “coziness with Vladimir Putin,” Special Counsel John Durham already shredded the foundation of his work.
Durham’s 2023 report concluded that the FBI “did not and could not corroborate” the Steele Dossier — the very document used to justify surveillance on Trump’s team.
He even highlighted how Strzok and former deputy director Andrew McCabe had “pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump.” Translation? This was never neutral.
Let’s not forget why Strzok was fired in the first place. Then-deputy FBI director David Bowdich called his behavior a catastrophic series of “missteps” that wrecked the Bureau’s credibility. That’s not exactly a glowing exit interview.
So why scrub his X account now? Maybe it’s just a coincidence. Or maybe — just maybe — Strzok sees what’s coming. Because when the nation’s top intelligence official calls your work part of a “coup” and hands over the receipts to DOJ? That’s not just bad press. That’s survival mode. And Strzok knows it.