By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Former FBI attorney Lisa Page says she’s “done being quiet.”
Page had been silent since she made national headlines two years ago over anti-Trump texts she exchanged with Peter Strzok, the former head of counterintelligence with whom she had been having an affair.
The 39-year-old, who left the FBI in May 2018, broke her silence in a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Beast.
“I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse,” Page said. “It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.”
Page said she decided to speak out after Trump repeatedly mocked her in tweets and at a campaign rally in Minneapolis in October, when the president read Page’s texts messages with Strzok in a degrading tone.
“Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Page said.
Page described Trump’s mocking as “sickening.”
“It’s like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again,” she said. “The president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He’s demeaning me and my career. It’s sickening.”
Page said the ridicule has changed her life.
“Like, when somebody makes eye contact with me on the Metro, I kind of wince, wondering if it’s because they recognize me, or are they just scanning the train like people do? It’s immediately a question of friend or foe?” she said.
“Or if I’m walking down the street or shopping and there’s somebody wearing Trump gear or a MAGA hat, I’ll walk the other way or try to put some distance between us because I’m not looking for conflict. Really, what I wanted most in this world is my life back.”
