Did Biden Just Buy Strzok's Silence? The Evidence Suggests That He Did

Hans Mahncke & Jeff Carlson

Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is paying Peter Strzok $1.2 million of taxpayer money. Strzok, of course, is the corrupt FBI official who orchestrated a deliberate effort to sabotage Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and later his presidency. He was also previously implicated in whitewashing Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. 

So why is he now being paid all this money? Ostensibly, the DOJ is settling a case brought by Strzok relating to the release of his FBI text messages. The text messages, in which Strzok and his FBI colleague, Lisa Page, who herself just received $800,000 in a similar settlement, repeatedly disparaged Trump and assured each other that they would stop him from getting elected, had been made public in December 2017 by then-acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Strzok claimed that his privacy was infringed by the disclosure. In truth, he never had a case. The text messages were sent on government devices, and Strzok had no expectation of privacy, even if the communications were genuinely private in nature, like discussing what Strzok was having for lunch. But it’s much worse than that. The Strzok-Page text messages weren’t private, they were critical evidence of a conspiracy at the highest levels of the FBI. The messages were about harming candidate Trump and later President Trump. The public had every right to see them.

Let’s revisit some of the more egregious text messages, and what they revealed about the plot to take down Trump. 

Perhaps the most important text message in the Strzok-Page exchanges, albeit one that is usually overlooked, is a July 28, 2016 message in which Strzok told Page that he wanted to talk to her about "Our open CI [counterintelligence] investigations relating to Trump's Russian connections". Why is this so problematic? Because for the past eight years, we have been told by the government, and the media, that the investigation into Trump only started on July 31, 2016 after an Australian diplomat provided a supposed tip about Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos. While those who have been following this story closely have known for a long time that that was always a lie, the fact that Strzok’s text message provides proof of the lie is less well known. 

Another crucial exchange, one that is far more well-known, occurred on August 8, 2016. Page pleaded with Strzok: “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Strzok’s response was “No. No, he won’t. We’ll stop it.” No reasonable person can read this exchange and conclude anything other than that Strzok was engaged in an effort to undermine the Trump campaign, let alone that the message has anything to do with Strzok’s privacy rights.

There is also Strzok's infamous "insurance policy" message. On August 15, 2016, just as the presidential race was entering its final stretch, Strzok texted Page to say: "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 40." Even after so many years, it is still chilling to read these words. Strozk, the FBI’s chief of counterintelligence, Andrew “Andy” McCabe, the FBI’s deputy director, and Lisa Page, McCabe’s counsel, had been secretly discussing how to stop a Trump presidency. This is what is commonly referred to as a conspiracy. 

A few months after the Strzok-Page messages were released, Strzok and McCabe were fired, while Page resigned in disgrace.

Strzok’s dismissal letter was blunt, with FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich, who drafted the letter, stating, "In my 23 years in the FBI, I have not seen a more impactful series of missteps that has called into question the entire organization and more thoroughly damaged the FBI’s reputation."

To summarize, the FBI's counterintelligence chief and the deputy director's counsel conspired to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president. When this plan failed, they attempted to remove a sitting president based on a completely fabricated allegation of collusion with Vladimir Putin. Subsequently, after the release of incriminating text messages, they both left the FBI in humiliation. This should have concluded the matter, but for reason we’ll discuss in a moment, they have now received substantial payouts from the outgoing Biden administration. How can this be justified?

It can’t. And it cannot even be explained as a legal maneuver. Strzok and Page had no case. So what is going on?

The most obvious explanation is that the Biden administration is using its last few months in power to ensure that its dirty secrets remain hidden. In other words, Strzok is being paid hush money.

But why? And how does this affect Biden? In fact, there are numerous parts of the story that directly or indirectly implicate Biden and his associates, details which they would likely prefer to remain secret.

So, what do Strzok and Page know that we don’t already know? A lot. For one thing, Strzok has never been held accountable for his numerous abuses. If he had been, Strzok might have felt compelled to reveal crucial information, such as the exact instructions he received that led him to ambush interview Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s national security director, on January 24, 2017. An FBI memo that was later recovered suggests that the objective of the ambush interview was to get Flynn fired.

It was the opening salvo in a years-long effort to oust a sitting president, and Strzok was at the center of it. This ties in directly with Biden because Strzok was there, either in person or on a teleconference line – the exact circumstances remain shrouded in mystery – when Biden demanded on Jan 5, 2017, that Comey take out Flynn with the Logan Act, simply because Flynn had talked to the Russian ambassador.

There’s also Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, who was instrumental in the initial propagandizing of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax in 2016. Sullivan pushed the Alfa hoax, the deranged accusation that Trump and Putin were communicating via a secret internet network. What Sullivan didn’t mention was that the Alfa hoax had been devised by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, of which he was a part. The Alfa hoax later became a cornerstone of the FBI’s, and Strzok’s, effort to take down Trump. A lesser-known fact is that, in February 2016, Strzok was the person who gave former CIA director Michael Morell a heads-up on the Hillary Clinton email investigation, an investigation which Strzok whitewashed.  Shortly after getting the heads-up, Morell contacted Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, to share some important information. We never found out what exactly Morell told Podesta, but we do know that, four years later, Morell was a key player in instigating the fraudulent letter from CIA and other intelligence officials that falsely claimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian plot. That letter cost Donald Trump the 2020 election.

As for Page, she also possesses a wealth of undisclosed information. Being Strzok’s romantic partner and McCabe’s legal advisor, she likely holds crucial details about the conspiracy against Trump. But she is not just a witness. Page authored the pivotal March 2017 memo for Congress that seeded the fraudulent Mueller investigation. The memo falsely claimed that there were grounds to investigate Trump, despite Page and other top FBI officials being aware that the entire narrative was fabricated. The circumstances that prompted Page to write the memo remain unclear. Who was guiding her actions? This remains a mystery. We do know that Igor Danchenko, the “source” of the Steele Dossier, confessed on January 24, 2017, that its contents were made up. Instead of acknowledging this and halting the investigation into Trump, Page’s memo perpetuated the lies. FBI leadership concealed Danchenko’s identity and existence from the public and Congressional investigators by designating him a confidential human source and compensating him with hundreds of thousands of dollars.

All of this leaves an extremely bitter taste. While the perpetrators of the Russia collusion hoax are being paid off, we are left footing the bill. Meanwhile, the victims, including Trump, Flynn, Carter Page, Michael Caputo, George Papadopoulos, Ekim Alptekin, as well as many others, have no recourse to justice. Even if Trump wins the 2024 election, the five-year statute of limitations means that it will be very difficult to bring anyone to justice.