Washington Post
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 means that Bowdich gave in to pressure from Teenythumbs Tweetsalot and punished a man for having political opinions.
Strzok, who was a deputy assistant director for counterintelligence at the bureau, has apologized for sending the messages and said they reflected personal views that did not affect his work. His lawyer has said that had Strzok wanted to prevent Trump’s election, he could have leaked that Trump’s campaign was under investigation for possibly coordinating with Russia — a revelation that might have upended his bid to become president.
As the NY office did to Clinton with the Weiner emails, for example.
Also worth noting is that Strzok didn’t want Trump to become President not because he’s some sort of flaming liberal — he prefered John Kasich for President — but because he had good reason to believe Donald Trump was a massively corrupt tool of the Russian mob.