“Immediately upon learning of the allegations, the special counsel’s office removed Peter Strzok from the investigation,” said a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, Peter Carr. But the existence of the text messages is likely to fuel claims by Trump that he is the target of a witch hunt. The discovery of the text messages came at a crucial moment in Mueller’s investigation. Trump has repeatedly criticized how the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation, saying that Clinton should have been charged. It is not clear whether Horowitz will make the text messages public as part of his report in the inquiry.

Source: thestar December 02, 2017 18:15 UTC