Every time I enter Walmart in North Conway, I think about the 2016 text from former FBI agent Peter Strzok to his girlfriend, FBI Attorney Lisa Page: “Just went to a southern Virginia Wal-Mart,” Strzok wrote. “I could SMELL the Trump support.”
Both were deeply into what now appears to have been a Machiavellian scheme to prevent Donald Trump from winning the 2016 election.
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