Donald Trump savages FBI lover Lisa Page after she accuses him of 'intimidating' attacks over her texts to Peter Strzok - and president claims she knows about the messages being 'scrubbed'

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Donald Trump blasted former FBI agent Lisa Page on Monday, insinuating she knew her messages with then-fellow agent Peter Strzok were 'scrubbed.'

'When Lisa Page, the lover of Peter Strzok, talks about being 'crushed', and how innocent she is, ask her to read Peter's 'Insurance Policy' text, to her, just in case Hillary loses,' Trump posted to Twitter Monday afternoon. 'Also, why were the lovers text messages scrubbed after he left Mueller. Where are they Lisa?'

The president's direct hit at Page came after she finally made public comments after she was involved in a scandal that outed her extramarital relationship with a fellow agent and their text messages showing favoritism toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elections.

Page and Strzok, who had an intimate relationship and Trump dubbed the 'FBI love birds,' exchange anti-Trump texts ahead of the 2016 presidential elections.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Page summarized her feelings about the waves of public scrutiny she received and Trump's recent mocking two years after she made headlines. 

Donald Trump blasted Lisa Page after the former FBI agent spoke out for the first time since she became the center of the 'FBI love bird' scandal

Trump brought up, in his tweet Monday, Page's messages to her lover and fellow FBI agent Peter Strzok, which showed bias toward Hillary Clinton winning in 2016

Page (pictured) came under public scrutiny after anti-Trump text messages were revealed in a 2017 investigation. Page: 'To try to further destroy my life. It never goes away or stops, even when he's not publicly attacking me' she said when finally coming forward in an interview this week after two years 

Page was engaged in an extramarital affair with the the head of FBI's counterintelligence Peter Strzok (pictured) and exchanged anti-Trump texts ahead of the 2016 elections

'Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel's back,' she said.

Page, 39, is referring to Trump's campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in October where the president gives an exaggerated reading of the former head of FBI's counterintelligence and Page's August 2016 messages.

The dramatic reading including Strzok's assurance that 'we'll stop,' Trump from winning against Clinton. 

'She's going to win, ten-million-to-one, she's going to win. I'm telling you Peter! Oh Peter, I love you so much,' Trump says to a laughing crowd.     

'I love you, too, Lisa... and if [Hillary Clinton] doesn't win, Lisa, we've got an insurance policy!'  

At the time, Strzok was overseeing the Hillary Clinton email probe and the investigation into the Trump campaign.  

According to Page, Trump's remarks have forced her to return to the media spotlight and confront him publicly.

 'I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse. 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,' she said. 

Page calls Trump's continual mention of her name and ridicule 'sickening.'

She said: 'It's like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again. The president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He's demeaning me and my career. It's sickening.' 

Still, Page admits that it can be daunting to seemingly go toe-to-toe with the Commander-in-Chief's stinging verbal shots.  

President Trump (pictured) mocked Page and Peter Strzok during a campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in October. 'Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel's back,' she said of his comments at the rally

'But it's also very intimidating because he's still the president of the United States,' she said. 

'And when the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there's no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he's still somebody in a position to actually do something about that,' she continued. 

'To try to further destroy my life. It never goes away or stops, even when he's not publicly attacking me.'

For Page, these attacks have affected her everyday life. 

Page said: 'I'm someone who's always in my head anyway – so now otherwise normal interactions take on a different meaning.' 

'Like, when somebody makes eye contact with me on the Metro, I kind of wince, wondering if it's because they recognize me, or are they just scanning the train like people do? It's immediately a question of friend or foe?' she continued. 

'Or if I'm walking down the street or shopping and there's somebody wearing Trump gear or a MAGA hat, I'll walk the other way or try to put some distance between us because I'm not looking for conflict. Really, what I wanted most in this world is my life back.' 

Strzok (left) and Page's (right) affair was exposed after the Trump administration opened an investigation in 2017

When speaking about the Clinton email probe, Page says she knew when she was assigned that the 'case was going to get picked apart.'

'Director [James] Comey was very clear he wanted this completed as soon as humanly possible and outside of the political environment. So there was a real focus to get it done before the conventions that were happening that summer. And so that's what we did,' she said. 

After Page's text thread with Strzok was made public, she caught heat for a particular message where she implied she was concerned about the investigation's impact on Clinton. 

She wrote in February 2016: 'One more thing: She might be our next president. The last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. You think she's going to remember or care that it was more DOJ or FBI?'

'Agreed,' Strozk answered. 

Michael E. Horowitz, the DOJ inspector general, noted that the pair's messages regarding Trump, were 'not only indicative of a biased state of mind but, even more seriously, implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects.'

In the aftermath of Comey's firing at the request of Trump, Page described the moment as a 'funeral' for the FBI. 

'It was a devastating moment at the FBI. It was like a funeral, only worse, because at least when someone dies, you get to come together and celebrate and talk about that person,' she said. 

'The president fired him with the knowledge that, of course, we were investigating Russian contacts with his campaign. I mean, it just gave the aura of an obstructive effort.'

Pictured: a portion of the text messages between Strzok and Page that were revealed during their investigation 

As Trump turned his sights onto Page and Strzok in July 2017, she maintains that she had no clue what anti-Trump messages the administration was referring to. 

Both Page and Strzok assured that they could separate their personal and work lives. 

What initially troubled here most was exposing the extramarital affair she was involved in. 

Page said: 'What I do know is that my text messages will reveal that I had previously had an affair. I'm overwhelmed by dread and embarrassment at the prospect that OIG investigators, Andy [McCabe], and my colleagues, now know or could learn about this deeply personal secret.'

One narrative that remained constant in the interview is that Page stands firm against the allegations that she did anything wrong, despite the president's accusations.  

She said: 'While it would be nice to have the IG confirm publicly that my personal opinions had absolutely no bearing on the course of the Russia investigations, I don't kid myself that the fact will matter very much for a lot of people.'