we are being asked to follow Lisa Page on twitter -- her first interview just hit Daily Beast.

[Grasswire2]

She has avoided social media until now. She feels vulnerable, and is vulnerable.

@NatSecLisa

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Link to tweet

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[spanone]

1. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Thanks

[DavidDvorkin]

2. She and Strzok were having an affair while both were married to other people

I'm unable to see either of them as heroic or admirable just because they denigrated Trump.

[Grasswire2]

3. sounds like you of all people should read the article in question. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Paywall.

[demmiblue]

20. The article isn't behind a paywall. n/t

[csziggy]

25. Here is the link directly rather than through Twitter

Lisa Page Speaks: ‘There’s No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All’
The former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target breaks two years of silence in this exclusive interview. And she has quite a lot to say.
Molly Jong-Fast
Updated Dec. 02, 2019 12:03PM ET / Published Dec. 01, 2019 7:59PM ET

It’s not often that you interview a subject who has no interest in being famous. But recently, I did just that when I sat down with Lisa Page the week before Thanksgiving in my hotel room in Washington, D.C. Page, of course, is the former FBI lawyer whose text-message exchanges with agent Peter Strzok that belittled Donald Trump and expressed fear at his possible victory became international news. They were hijacked by Trump to fuel his “deep state” conspiracy.

For the nearly two years since her name first made the papers, she’s been publicly silent (she did have a closed-door interview with House members in July 2018). I asked her why she was willing to talk now. “Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she says. The president called out her name as he acted out an orgasm in front of thousands of people at a Minneapolis rally on Oct. 11.

That was the moment Page decided she had to speak up. “I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse,” she says. “It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.”

She is also about to be back in the news cycle in a big way. On Dec. 9, the Justice Department inspector general report into Trump’s charges that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign will come out. Leaked press accounts indicate the report will exonerate Page of the allegation that she acted unprofessionally or showed bias against Trump.

More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/lisa-page-speaks-theres-no-fathomable-way-i-have-committed-any-crime-at-all

[dewsgirl]

5. She has paid by having the President of the

United States and the GOP repeating her mistakes to the world over and over again.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. One does not have an affair by mistake.

[Gore1FL]

12. No, but one might see it as one later. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Yes, that's certainly true.

[LanternWaste]

22. Nor does one act self-righteous by mistake.

[RandySF]

7. You sure love judging others.

I hope your own house is in order.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. It is.

[babylonsister]

11. What does their affair have to do with any of this?

I know Strzok was valuable and knowledgeable. Don't know much about Lisa.

[phleshdef]

17. Nothing. That was a big fat "look at meeee" post if there ever was one.

[PatrickforO]

15. Fair enough. However, the point to me, after reading the Daily Beast article about

Lisa Page, is Trump's absolute misuse of his office bullying this woman. He simulated an orgasm while saying her name at one of his white nationalist rallies, for God's sake.

Page and Strzok aren't perfect, sure. I mean, you might not like the fact she had an affair, but the public shaming inflicted by Trump has created a punishment for her that does not fit the crime.

By the way, here's the link to the Daily Beast article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/lisa-page-speaks-theres-no-fathomable-way-i-have-committed-any-crime-at-all

[Happy Hoosier]

21. That's a whole lot of self-righteousness.

What is your point? Should her expertise and professional integrity be disregarded and attacked because of this affair?

[obamanut2012]

24. Who cares

It's between them and their respective families. Your "morality" is so slut-shamey.

[True_Blue]

30. So she had an affair, does that mean she's open game for Trump?

As far as being heroic, all she's trying to do is defend herself against Trump's disgusting attacks. Personally I think she's heroic, because it takes a lot of guts to stand up to Trump knowing full well there are some in his base that are very capable of violence.

[Tipperary]

10. Not on Twitter.

Nor Facebook. I simply do not get the “following” thing.

[DesertRat]

14. The account doesn't have the blue checkmark

Can we be sure it’s really her?

[hlthe2b]

18. As a nonregistered person for twitter admittedly, but don't you have to have achieved a

a "large volume" of twitter usage (and, I guess, followers) before you can get a blue check?

It would also seem that the reporter would have verified if the twitter report was actually her.

[DesertRat]

23. I assume that Benjamin Wittes can verify that it's her

I don't know the process by which someone is verified on Twitter. But there are celebrities/politicians, etc who have verified accounts before they amass followers.

[Grasswire2]

26. many credentialed people have verified that it's her. nt

[demmiblue]

19. Following... 50.3 K so far. n/t

[Grasswire2]

27. wow, that jumped up real fast!

Cool.

[Gothmog]

28. K&R

[tavernier]

29. Hasn't it dawned on anyone

that he is the last person in the world to point out anyone else’s affairs? This creep would feel up any female of barely legal age and preferably while his wife was two rooms away.