Strozak testified publicly for 10 hours on July 12. Both worked on the FBI's Russia investigation and for a brief time on Special Counsel Robert’s Mueller’s investigation. Page, a former FBI lawyer, has drawn attention from lawmakers because she and former FBI agent Peter Strzok exchanged anti-Trump text messages while having an affair. Or someone "sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds." In 2016, Trump said it could have been China who hacked emails of Democratic operatives and the Democratic National Committee. political organizations.ĭespite that, Trump has questioned whether the Russian government tried to interfere in the U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. intelligence community concluded that the Russian government directed the recent theft of emails from U.S. The True Pundit said that Page alleged that the upper echelon of the FBI concealed intelligence confirming Chinese state-backed "assets" had illegally acquired former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 "missing" emails. The True Pundit said the information came from "federal sources" and "well-placed FBI sources." Your News Wire largely drew from a story by The True Pundit about Page’s closed-door House hearings on July 13 and July 16. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) We found no credible evidence to back up the headline. This story was flagged as part Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. "Lisa Page squeals: DNC server was not hacked by Russians," said the July 17 headline by Your News Wire which frequently publishes fake news. A story on Facebook said Lisa Page testified that her former bosses at the FBI instructed her to cover-up the fact that China, not Russia, hacked the Democratic National Committee server.