Trump deposition may follow Christopher Wray’s in ex-FBI employees’ lawsuits: report
On Tuesday, June 27, FBI Director Christopher Wray — according to ABC News sources — sat for a closed-door deposition and answered questions from attorneys for two former FBI employees: attorney Lisa Page and ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok.
In separate civil lawsuits, Page and Strzok allege that mistreatment led to their departures from the FBI in 2018. Strzok was fired, while Page resigned.
According to ABC News reporters Luke Barr and Mike Levine, former President Donald Trump may be sitting for a deposition in the lawsuits as well.
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Page and Strzok's departures from the FBI, the journalists note, followed "months of public ridicule by then-President Donald Trump and his allies."
"Though (Page and Strzok) filed separate lawsuits," Barr and Levine explain, "their legal teams are working together to gather evidence and conduct depositions. In her lawsuit, Page claims the Justice Department and FBI violated the Privacy Act by publicly releasing her private text messages, which she says were used 'to promote the false narrative that (she) and others at the FBI were biased against President Trump, had conspired to undermine him, and otherwise had engaged in allegedly criminal acts, including treason.'"
The reporters add, "In his own lawsuit, Strzok claims wrongful termination, alleging the FBI and Justice Department violated his 1st Amendment rights, and that his firing 'was the result of a long and public campaign by President Trump and his allies to vilify Strzok and pressure the agency to terminate him.'"
Barr and Levine note that Page and Strzok "had wanted to depose Trump before deposing Wray, but — after much legal wrangling — (Judge Amy) Berman Jackson denied that request, waiting to see if Trump's deposition would still be necessary after hearing testimony from Wray."
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ABC News' full report is available at this link.
