Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok has lost his long-running lawsuit claiming he was illegally fired for sending messages attacking President Trump during his first term.

Strzok had argued that he was only fired in 2018 because Trump reacted furiously to texts the agent exchanged while investigating ties between Russia and the Republicans’ 2016 campaign.

But US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that Strzok failed to show it violated his First Amendment rights.

The Obama-appointed judge praised Strzok as having been “among the FBI’s leading counterintelligence experts” — but ruled there there was “no genuine dispute of material fact” to fight the firing.

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok seated in a suit and tie before testifying at a House Judiciary and Ov

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