Abuse of power?

Peter Strzok fired from the FBI

Fired from the agency for writing anti-Trump, pro-Hillary texts during the campaign, while briefly serving on the Russiagate investigation.

He was reassigned away from that as soon as his texts came to light.

The FBI has fired Peter Strzok, an agent who was removed from the Russia probe last year for sending text messages disparaging President Donald Trump, Strzok's lawyer said Monday.

Aitan Goelman, Strzok's attorney, said FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich ordered the agent's termination on Friday. 

Goelman said that the deputy director's decision comes after the head of the office that normally handles disciplinary actions decided Strzok should instead face a demotion and 60-day suspension.

"The decision to fire Special Agent Strzok is not only a departure from typical Bureau practice, but also contradicts (FBI) Director (Christopher) Wray's testimony to Congress and his assurances that the FBI intended to follow its regular process in this and all personnel matters," Goelman said in his statement.

The FBI declined to comment on Goelman's assertions.

Strzok played a lead role in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server and was involved in the FBI's recommendation that no criminal charges be filed against the former secretary of state. 

He later helped oversee the beginnings of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and his involvement in both investigations has been seized on by Republicans as evidence of anti-Trump bias in the bureau and those investigating potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

Update 8/14.

An ex FBI guy on MSNBC said he was fired for bringing the FBI into disrepute and so the firing was not political.

But that he was fired for that reason means, of course, that the firing was political.

He was fired solely because he really pissed off Republicans in power, including Trump.

That rage was the only "disrepute".