President Donald Trump Tuesday tweeted out what Judge Andrew Napolitano said he finds to be the "most profound question of our era" — Was FBI agent Peter Strzok at the center of a conspiracy to deny Trump the White House?
"'The most profound question of our era: Was there a conspiracy in the Obama Department of Justice and the FBI to prevent Donald Trump from becoming President of the U.S., and was [that guy] Strzok at the core of the conspiracy?' Judge Andrew Napolitano," Trump tweeted, repeating comments the Fox News judicial analyst made during his morning appearance on "Fox and Friends."
Napolitano made the comment while discussing another presidential tweet from Monday, when Trump said that the hearing with Strzok "and the other hating frauds at the FBI & DOJ should be shown to the public on live television, not a closed door hearing that nobody will see. We should expose these people for what they are - there should be total transparency!"
Strzok has come under fire after it was discovered he and his romantic partner at the time, FBI attorney Lisa Page, had exchanged numerous anti-Trump text messages. He was removed from FBI headquarters last week, and is expected to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Napolitano said he "could not agree with [Trump] more" that Strzok's hearing should be held in public.
"Why is he still at the FBI?" said Napolitano. "He is an FBI agent, still getting paid. Is he the subject of an FBI investigation? Is he about to become the subject of a criminal investigation. He knows whatever he says under oath can be used against him but he agreed to testify."
Americans, said Napolitano, "have the right to observe that testimony. If we don't, if it's just the politicians, then the Republicans will leak their narrative and the Democrats will leak their narrative. We are adults. They work for us. We can form our own conclusions."
Strozok, Napolitano added, "is a character and is happy to speak in public, and the politicians want to learn things that we don't know."
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