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Headline Roundup December 2nd, 2019

Former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Hits Back At Trump's Attacks

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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page says that she has broken no laws in connection with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. She said she decided to speak out because President Trump ridiculed her at a Minneapolis rally in October when he made faces in reference to her and Peter Strzok, with whom she was having an affair.

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Lisa Page Speaks: ‘There’s No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All’
Lisa Page Speaks: ‘There’s No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All’

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The former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target breaks two years of silence in this exclusive interview. And she has quite a lot to say.

t’s not often that you interview a subject who has no interest in being famous. But recently, I did just that when I sat down with Lisa Page the week before Thanksgiving in my hotel room in Washington, D.C. Page, of course, is the former FBI lawyer whose text-message exchanges with agent Peter Strzok that belittled Donald Trump and expressed fear at his possible victory...

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'I decided to take my power back': Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page speaks out on Trump's 'sickening' attacks
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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page has tried to avoid the media spotlight since gaining national attention for her text messages with fired FBI agent Peter Strzok, which President Donald Trump and his allies have used as evidence of a "deep state" conspiracy to undermine his presidency.

But in a rare interview, Page, 39, told The Daily Beast that she could no longer silently stomach the president's attacks on her. She said "the straw that broke the camel’s back" came when Trump repeatedly called her name at an Oct. 11 rally...

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Lisa Page breaks silence, saying Trump's 'fake orgasm' forced her to speak out
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“Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back."

With those striking words in an interview published late Sunday, Lisa Page, the ex-FBI lawyer who carried on an extramarital affair with former FBI head of counterintelligence Peter Strzok as the two exchanged anti-Trump text messages, said she was breaking her silence.

The 39-year-old Page was referring to Trump's comments about her and Strzok at an October rally. During the event, Trump performed a passionate, dramatic reading of Strzok and Page's August 2016 text messages, including...

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