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Swalwell: I would have fired Strzok too
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/401744-swalwell-i-would-have-fired-strzok-tooSwalwell: I would have fired Strzok too
By Megan Keller - 08/14/18 11:49 AM EDT
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said that he too would have fired the FBI agent dismissed after making anti-Trump texts while taking part in investigations of Hillary Clinton and President Trump, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
“Yeah, I would have fired him too,” Swalwell said in an interview with Bloomberg News.
Swalwell said Strzok’s rights as an employee should be respected, but “I also believe as the brother of police officers and a former prosecutor, with the stakes this high, a presidential candidate being investigated, you can't talk that way.”
“Even if it didn't effect the investigation, and the GAO report, the Inspector General Report, said it didn’t, I still think it has to be clear that you can’t do that," said Swalwell, an outspoken critic of Trump who is now thinking about running for president.
Strzok was dismissed Monday for violating the FBI's policies. The FBI had come under intense pressure from Trump and some Republicans in Congress to fire Strzok, a political lightning rod.
An Inspector General report starkly criticized Strzok for sending the anti-Trump texts, and had recommended that he be suspended for 60 days and demoted.
Swalwell said he did not think Strzok's actions had any bearing on special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
“Regardless of what Peter Strzok did, the Mueller investigation has still obtained five guilty pleas, nearly two dozen indictments, and a verdict that's probably coming soon in the Manafort case,” he said.
Swalwell has been a vocal critic of Trump, especially regarding the Russia investigation. When President Trump asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions
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