Judicial Watch: Firing of Peter Strzok is a Body Blow to Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel

Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok was finally fired Monday morning after months of revelations showing he held, and potentially acted on, an extreme anti-Trump bias during his time at the Bureau.

The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts.

Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s lawyer, said FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich ordered the firing on Friday — even though the director of the FBI office that normally handles employee discipline had decided Strzok should face only a demotion and 60-day suspension. Goelman said the move undercuts the FBI’s repeated assurances that Strzok would be afforded the normal disciplinary process.

“This isn’t the normal process in any way more than name,” Goelman said.