FBI agent removed from Russia investigation called Trump an 'idiot'

Moscow: Two FBI officials who would later be assigned to the special counsel's investigation into Donald Trump's presidential campaign described him as an "idiot" and "loathsome human" in a series of text messages last year, according to copies released. One said in an election night text that the prospect of a Trump victory was "terrifying". Peter Strzok, an FBI counterintelligence agent, was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team earlier this year following the discovery of text messages exchanged with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer. Hundreds of the messages, which surfaced in a justice department investigation of the FBI's inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.