NEW: I interviewed @petestrzok ahead of his book release next week. We discussed the counterintelligence case on Trump (he doesn’t think it was ever pursued), evidence he saw that Russia held back methods in 2016 that it could deploy in Nov., and more. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/05/peter-strzok-would-like-to-clear-a-few-things-up-409280
Opening a counterintel case on this president proved extremely complicated. “When you step back and look at it, its fucking huge,” Strzok said, pointing to Trump’s more than 500 LLCs. Rooting through all those records would have been “a massive, massive undertaking.”
Despite his belief that tracing money was the most critical investigative trail the probe could follow — “even more than proving contacts with Russia” — Strzok is fairly confident that that thread was never tugged at, let alone unraveled, after he was removed from the probe.
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