A pivotal array of previously missing text message exchanges between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two FBI officials who in their conversations displayed a bias against President Trump, sent to Congress with redactions this week have been leaked to the media.

Hours after five congressional committees received the recovered text messages, the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained them and subsequently published them.

These text messages were exchanged between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017, a critical time period that stretches from the presidential transition period to the first several months of the Trump administration, during which former national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned under pressure and former FBI Director James Comey was fired.

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As with any text messages examined out of context, the true meaning of what Strzok and Page were saying remains unclear.

In these newly revealed texts they did appear dismayed when Trump fired Comey in May of 2017.

“Having a tough time processing tonight, Lis. Feeling a profound sense of loss,” Strzok wrote several days after Comey was terminated.

“I feel that same loss,” Page said in response. “I want to see what the FBI could become under him! His vision of greatness for our strong but flawed organization. I’m angry. Angry and mourning.”

Texts between the pair, who were having an extramarital affair, that have already been made public have contained laudatory words for Comey.

Strzok and Page also praised Comey in one conversation after his July 2016 appearance before Congress explaining why FBI did not recommend any criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. Page lauded his public speaking skills and commended Comey for having a “brilliant distillation of fact.”

Comey, in the middle of a book tour, was asked to comment about Strzok and Page during an interview Thursday on Fox News. He told Bret Baier that he never witnessed any evidence of bias from Strzok and Page while working with them, but he was "deeply disappointed in them" when he read some of the texts.

Comey also cautioned against attempts to decipher the meaning of the texts without context.

Meanwhile, texts that have already surfaced have appeared to be highly critical of Trump, including Page calling Trump an "idiot" and "a douche." Strzok replied to another, saying "F Trump.”

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General disclosed the new cache of texts with House and Senate lawmakers this week after advising Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., they had been recovered in January after they had gone missing due to a technical glitch in the FBI-issued cellphones.

Congressional investigators are looking into whether the FBI was biased in the way it conducted its investigations into President Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

FBI agents Strzok and Page briefly worked for special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.