In newly-released text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, residents of Loudoun County, Virginia, are branded as “ignorant hillbillies.”
Strzok and Page, who were involved in an extramarital affair, exchanged more than 50,000 texts during the presidential campaign, transition and first months of the Trump presidency.
Republicans have called out the many instances of apparent anti-Trump bias that the two showed. In one conversation in Nov. 2015, the two discussed then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s wife running for local office as a Democrat in the area.
Strzok called Jill McCabe’s loss “disappointing” and insulted Loudoun County as being made up of “still largely ignorant hillbillys.”