The back and forth was as revealing as not surprising.

Recall the story. It went everywhere, but in this case here is the headline and account from the Hill back there in the stone age of 2018. The headline: “FBI agent in texts: ‘We’ll stop Trump from becoming president.”
The Hill reported this:
An FBI agent who was removed from the probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign texted an FBI attorney that the agency would “stop” then-candidate Donald Trump from becoming president.
Text messages disclosed Thursday in a highly anticipated report from the Justice Department’s internal watchdog showed Peter Strzok, a top investigator into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, seemingly reassuring lawyer Lisa Page that Trump would not become president, the Washington Post reported.
“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page texted Strzok in August 2016.
“No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded.
The text messages’ disclosure comes as part of the inspector general’s review of former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Clinton email investigation.
For all of the back and forth in the last seven years since, the essence of the problem has not changed. Members of the iconic Federal Bureau of Investigation were no longer playing by the rules and pursuing straight-up violations of the law.
With the rise of Donald Trump, there were FBI bureaucrats who were playing quite decidedly blatant politics in their jobs in the Bureau. As if that were not bad enough, the pattern continued.
Here’s a headline from USA Today from the other day: “Trump’s Justice Department starts sweeping cuts targeting Jan. 6 prosecutors, FBI agents.”
That story reported:
President Donald Trump’s administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department on Friday that appeared to focus on FBI agents and others who w...