Strzok’s FBI-lawyer love: Don’s jabs a ‘gut punch’

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page opened up about the criticism she has received from President Trump, revealing in an interview published Sunday that “it’s like being punched in the gut,” whenever he tweets about her.

Page, who bashed Trump in text messages to her special-agent boyfriend Peter Strzok, told The Daily

Beast that she finally decided to speak out after the president mocked the couple’s texts during an October rally in Minneapolis.

“Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she told the Web Site. “I had stayed quiet for years, hoping it would fade away, but instead, it got worse.”

She added, “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 also stressed that she had not done anything wrong, despite the president’s allegations.

A Justice Department Inspector General report into Trump’s claims that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign is expected to be released on Dec. 9.

Page was thrust into the public eye in December 2017 when the Department of Justice released hundreds of text messages between her and Strzok, which showed the pair mocking Trump and his supporters — calling the then-candidate a “disaster.”

Strzok was the lead investigator into Russian interference in the 2016 election and Hillary Clinton’s use of her personal e-mail server. He was removed from the Mueller probe and demoted to the FBI’s Human Resources Division after the texts came to light.

Page resigned from the department in May 2018.