Miranda Devine: Trump’s ’fake orgasm’ insult is a predictable attack

An alleged “fake orgasm” is the latest insult thrown at President Donald Trump by his detractors claiming victimhood. It’s another predictable attack in the fiercest battle in Washington, writes Miranda Devine.

Donald Trump must be quaking in his boots now that FBI “love bird” Lisa Page has emerged from hiding to condemn him.

The former FBI lawyer told the Daily Beast she decided to “speak out” after the President feigned a “demeaning fake orgasm” during a rally as he read aloud emails between Page and her lover, FBI agent Peter Strzok.

“Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she said. “I decided to take my power back.”

“Fake orgasm” is an exaggeration, but the President does use the emails as a comedy routine at his rallies, describing Page and Strzok as “FBI lovebirds” and affecting a breathless lovey-dovey voice as he reads their words.

Insults against US President Donald Trump are hardly surprising. Picture: Nicholas Kamm / AFP

The insult is intended but it’s hardly surprising.

For all that Page is now posing as a victim, the source of her troubles is her unprofessional, unethical and maliciously partisan attitude towards Trump – which was enthusiastically shared by her FBI colleague Strzok, with whom she conducted a lengthy affair.

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Strzok was the lead investigator and Page the lead lawyer in two crucial FBI probes — one into Russian interference in the 2016 election, which became the failed Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, and another into Hillary Clinton’s unauthorised use of her personal email server.

Yet, at the same time, the pair were exchanging hundreds of text messages disparaging Trump and hoping for a Clinton victory.

Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Picture: Fox News

The messages were released in 2017 after a Justice Department investigation into the FBI’s conduct during the Clinton investigation.

“God Trump is a loathsome human,” wrote Page in March, 2016, eight months before the election.

“OMG [Trump’s] an idiot,” replied Strzok.

“He’s awful,” wrote Page.

“God Hillary should win,” replied Strzok.

“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” asked Page in another exchange.

“No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it,” replied Strzok.

In one particularly contentious text, in August 2016, Strzok tells Page, “I want to believe the path you threw out in [their then-boss Andrew McCabe’s] office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take the risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

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. Also, why were the lovers text messages scrubbed after he left Mueller. Where are they Lisa?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2019

Republicans allege that the “insurance policy” was the Russia collusion hoax which involved a bodgied up sex dossier on Trump they hoped would sink him.

Trump tweeted along those lines yesterday: “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”.

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Page and Strzok both say the text has been taken out of context.

Just what that context was should become clear when Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz delivers his long-awaited report into the FBI this week and, later, US lawyer John Durham concludes another criminal inquiry into the origins of the Russia probe.

Until then, the battle for control of the narrative is the fiercest game in Washington.

Originally published as Miranda Devine: Trump’s ’fake orgasm’ insult is a predictable attack