A federal judge on Thursday ordered the depositions of former president Donald Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray for two hours as part of two ongoing lawsuits focused on whether Peter Strzok, a former FBI agent, and Lisa Page, an FBI attorney, were fired without cause.

Texts critical of Trump were revealed in an exchange between the two FBI staffers, who were in the midst of an affair. Strzok and Page, who were involved in the investigation into Trump’s alleged ties with Russia, were eventually dismissed from the agency. They are suing the FBI over their firings.

The Biden Justice Department released fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok’s termination letter as part of its efforts to fight the fired special agent’s attempts to subpoena former President Donald Trump.

Strzok wants to depose Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray, but the Biden Justice Department has been fighting that in court for months. He sued the FBI in 2019 for alleged wrongful termination, which followed the emergence of his anti-Trump texts.

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok questioned the need for U.S. Attorney John Durham's criminal inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation.

In the midst of a book tour, Strzok, who played a key role in opening the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation that was later spun into Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation, appeared for an interview on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday and said he can't see "see any basis" for the so-called "investigation into the investigators."

From the get-go Wednesday, CNN host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo telegraphed that he wasn’t going to take his interview with disgraced, former FBI agent Peter Strzok seriously. “They were the text messages that launched everything from conspiracy theories to congressional investigations. Not to mention more than 50 presidential tweets and countless hours of programming on state TV, a.k.a. Fox,” he mocked.

Of course, he would! Strzok was there to peddle his anti-Trump book alleging Russian collusion, something the FBI investigation didn’t find.

Michael Flynn’s lawyers said newly uncovered notes from former FBI official Peter Strzok indicate then-FBI Director James Comey appeared to downplay Flynn’s calls during the presidential transition with Russia's ambassador as “legit” during a meeting where then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden also weighed in.

President Donald Trump voiced strong support Thursday for his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, raising speculation that a pardon may be coming after Flynn’s lawyers disclosed internal FBI documents they claim show the FBI tried to “intentionally frame” him.

Trump said he believes Flynn should now be cleared in court, but if that doesn’t happen he as president has “a different type of power.”

New unsealed FBI memos show that the Bureau found “no derogatory information” on former national security adviser Michael Flynn while investigating his alleged Russian contacts, and moved to close their investigation of him in early January 2017 before former FBI agent Peter Strzok intervened, asking to keep the case open.

President Trump’s allies cheered new documents unsealed on Wednesday in the criminal case of his former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, saying that internal investigative notes showed that Mr. Flynn was set up by F.B.I. officials intent on undermining the president.

It will be up to a federal judge to decide if the notes and emails advance claims that Mr. Flynn was framed when he lied to the F.B.I. in January 2017 about his conversations with a Russian diplomat, a felony he twice pleaded guilty to.

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok is claiming the government violated his First Amendment rights by releasing his private text messages that contained his political opinion about President Donald Trump.

In a new court filing Monday, Strzok and his attorneys argue that the Justice Department violated his protected free speech by releasing the text messages he exchanged with then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page.

Trump is “not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page wrote in one text. “No. No he won’t,” Strzok responded. “We’ll stop it.” He also called Trump an "idiot."

The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and its possible links to Christopher Steele were discussed inside the FBI’s top echelons before it obtained court authority to wiretap a Trump associate based largely on Mr. Steele’s Democratic Party opposition research, according to the Justice Department’s inspector general report.