An FBI agent who was removed from the probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign texted an FBI attorney that the agency would "stop" then-candidate Donald Trump from becoming president.

Text messages disclosed Thursday in a highly anticipated report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog showed Peter Strzok, a top investigator into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE's use of a private email server and into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, seemingly reassuring lawyer Lisa Page that Trump would not become president, The Washington Post reported.

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“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page texted Strzok in August 2016.

“No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded.

The text messages' disclosure comes as part of the inspector general's review of former FBI Director James Comey James Brien ComeyDemocrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate Book: FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger October 2016 public probe of Clinton emails Trump jabs at FBI director over testimony on Russia, antifa MORE's handling of the Clinton email investigation.

In his report, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that Comey "deviated" from standard FBI procedure in the Clinton investigation, but was not motivated by political bias.

The conclusion, first reported by Bloomberg, also found that Strzok's and Page's potential political biases never "directly affected" the specific investigative actions that were reviewed in the report.

“We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed,” the report's conclusion reads.

Strzok and Page were removed from special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's investigation over the text messages, which were obtained by internal investigators, in the summer of 2017. The exchange, however, negatively affected public perception of the office, the report found.

“The conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation,” the report says.

President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE and his GOP allies in Congress have pointed to the text exchange as proof of systemic political bias against him in both the Mueller investigation and within the top ranks of the federal government.

Trump called the agents' text messages an act of "treason" in a Wall Street Journal interview published in January.

“A man is tweeting to his lover that if [Clinton] loses, we’ll essentially do the insurance policy,” Trump told the Journal. “'We’ll go to phase two and we’ll get this guy out of office.'” “This is the FBI we’re talking about — that is treason,” the president continued. “That is a treasonous act. What he tweeted to his lover is a treasonous act.”

Updated 12:40 p.m.