Trump attorney Jay Sekulow discusses stunning timeline of what Strzok & Page discussed in ‘missing’ text messages from 12/14/16-5/17/17

Trump attorney @JaySekulow discusses stunning timeline of what Strzok & Page discussed in ‘missing’ text messages from 12/14/16-5/17/17 pic.twitter.com/UStb4MCxZg

— Cristina Laila (@cristinalaila1) January 22, 2018

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

During this period when Strzok's/Page's texts were "lost" (deliberately), December 2016 to May 2017, many important things happened in the RUSSIA investigation, which the texts could have shed light on: 

Conversations between Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. 

The completion and publication of the intelligence community assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election. 

The briefing in which FBI director James Comey told President-elect Donald Trump about the Trump dossier. 

This is a huge one, as many suspect, for very good reason, that this briefing was not a briefing of the president but of the press -- the press had passed on reporting on the Pee-Pee Party dossier, so Clapper and Comey decided to "brief the president" about it, for the express purpose of then immediately leaking news of the "briefing" to the press, for the express purpose of making the otherwise-unreportable dossier now reportable. 

After all, the dossier had been "briefed" to the president. Doesn't that now make it something that the public should know about (via an illegal leak)? 

Other things that happened during the period of the "lost" email: 

The president's inauguration. 

The nomination and confirmation of new Justice Department leadership. 

Flynn's interview with the FBI (conducted by Strzok). 

Comey's assurances to Trump that he, Trump, was not under investigation. 

A variety of revelations, mostly in the Washington Post and New York Times, about various Trump figures under investigation. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal from the Russia probe. 

Would there have been texts discussing this? Maybe speaking about it in a way that suggested this was a set-up for the exact purpose of getting the more-pliable Ron Rosenstein in charge of making decisions about a special prosecutor? 

The firing of top Obama Justice Department holdover Sally Yates. 

Trump's tweet alleging he was wiretapped. Trump's firing of Comey. 

And, finally, on May 17, 2017 — the final day of the missing texts — the appointment of Trump-Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller. 

"Strzok and Page had a lot to talk about," Byron York dryly comments. BTW, York also notes a real hmmmdinger of a new text which the FBI didn't "lose" but is now disclosing. It involves Strzok and Page saying that now that Trump would be the nominee (after Cruz dropped out), the "pressure" to conclude the investigation into Hillary's emails was now even more urgent.