"The FBI says it is now missing five months worth of lovers Strzok - Page texts, perhaps 50,000, all in prime time. Wow!” President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter. | Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images Trump calls missing FBI texts ‘one of the biggest stories in a long time’

Missing text messages between two FBI employees accused of bias against President Donald Trump is “one of the biggest stories in a long time,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday morning, seemingly renewing his questions about the bureau’s objectivity.

“In one of the biggest stories in a long time, the FBI says it is now missing five months worth of lovers Strzok - Page texts, perhaps 50,000, all in prime time. Wow!” Trump wrote online. His tweet appeared to confuse the number of missing texts, which is unknown, with the overall 50,000 texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page that were discovered on Justice Department servers.


That the FBI is missing five months worth of text messages between Strzok and Page, from December 2016 to May 2017, was revealed over the weekend in a letter from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who wrote to bureau Director Christopher Wray seeking information about the messages.

Strzok and Page have faced significant criticism from Republicans in the wake of publication of text messages between them in which they were critical of Trump. Strzok had been part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election but was removed following the text messages’ release.

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Trump, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published earlier this month, said the exchanges between Strzok and Page amounted to "treason."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has recused himself from any investigation related to the 2016 election, pledged Monday that the Justice Department would look into the missing text messages.

“We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are not now available to be produced and will use every technology available to determine whether the missing messages are recoverable,” he said in a statement released by the Justice Department, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

