Lisa Page, Resistance Hero?

Lisa Page

Washington Examiner Editorial: The resistance hero of the day appears to be former FBI attorney Lisa Page. This may be surprising at first if you consider that Page rose to fame by flagrantly abandoning both her personal and professional duties.

Come to think of it, in the grand scheme of things, Page might just be the perfect icon for the resistance as we’ve come to know it over the past three years.

Page had an interview with a liberal Daily Beast writer that published on Monday, and most of the left-leaning major media outlets extolled her as a heroine. The headlines were uniformly glowing: “Ex-FBI lawyer targeted by Trump breaks silence.” “I decided to take my power back.” "I’m done being quiet’: Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page slams Trump’s ‘sickening’ attacks in first interview."

President Trump’s attacks on Page have been crass, of course. And in the age of Trump, somehow becoming a victim of his attacks instantly makes one into a hero. This sad fact reveals the dishonesty inherent in the resistance and behind the impeachment investigation.

If you just read the glowing reviews of Page in the media, you would believe her only crime had been to dislike Trump. You might forget that she was texting with other FBI employees on how to “stop” Trump from becoming president. You might forget that her texts were misdeeds not only in the eyes of the GOP or the “right-wing media,” but also in the eyes of the FBI and the Justice Department.

Writing on Page and some of her colleagues, the FBI’s inspector general concluded, "We found that the conduct of these five FBI employees brought discredit to themselves, sowed doubt about the FBI’s handling of the Midyear investigation, and impacted the reputation of the FBI.”

The inspector general added, “The damage caused by their actions extends far beyond the scope of the Midyear investigation and goes to the heart of the FBI’s reputation for neutral fact finding and political independence. We were deeply troubled by text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations.”

Page is also known for cheating on her husband with fellow FBI employee Peter Strzok. Strzok, also married, was briefly a resistance hero himself, garnering headlines such as, “The G-Man Fights Back: Peter Strzok Zaps His Republican Inquisitors.”

It seems that in an effort to battle a political opponent, whom they attack as a depraved man who smashes norms, the resistance keeps turning to men and women who are similarly models of depravity and the smashing of norms.

Before his indictment, Michael Avenatti had become the big impeachment hero, back while he was exploiting his porn-star client. Liberal-turned-Tea-Partier-turned-race-baiting conspiracy theorist Joe Walsh became a hero for a brief moment. So did the foulmouthed, corporate-welfare peddler Anthony Scaramucci the moment he turned against Trump.

This history of resistance heroes undermines the claims that the objections of Trump pertain to his comportment or his disregard for norms. You can't complain about the worst side of Trump while simultaneously praising people who display all of his exact same worst traits.
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H/T Washington Examiner

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