WASHINGTON — FBI director Chris Wray was deposed under oath this week by lawyers for former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who are separately suing the federal government over their departures from the FBI, which came after months of public ridicule by then-president Donald Trump and his allies.
The closed-door deposition on Tuesday, confirmed by two people familiar with the matter, could pave the way for the sworn deposition of Trump himself in the coming weeks.
In 2016, Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent, helped launched the FBI's investigation into alleged ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia -- a probe Trump has derided as a"hoax." In her lawsuit, Page claims the Justice Department and FBI violated the Privacy Act by publicly releasing her private text messages, which she says were used"to promote the false narrative that [she] and others at the FBI were biased against President Trump, had conspired to undermine him, and otherwise had engaged in allegedly criminal acts, including treason."
Both lawsuits cite an array of tweets and public statements from Trump in the run-up to Page's resignation and Strzok's firing from the FBI. At least one of the former FBI employees was inside the room with Wray during the deposition this week, ABC News was told.
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