Is This The Current State Of American Politics And Media Today When It Comes To 'Victimhood'?

Former FBI attorney Lisa Page appeared on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday night in her first televised interview since resigning from the Bureau nearly two years ago

Daily Mail: 'Being quiet wasn't making this go away': FBI lover Lisa Page says she decided to speak up about being attacked by Trump after he mocked her at a campaign rally by performing a 'vile sort of simulated sex act'

* Lisa Page appeared on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday night
* It marked her first televised interview since she resigned from the FBI nearly two years ago following the release of her text messages with Peter Strzok
* In the messages, Page and Strzok, who were engaged in an extramarital affair, expressed bias against then-candidate Donald Trump
* Trump has repeatedly ridiculed the 'FBI lovebirds', including at several of his campaign rallies this fall
* Page said she was motivated to break her silence after the president mimicked her having an orgasm at a rally in October
* 'I just finally had to accept it's not getting better and being quiet isn't making this go away,' she said of her response to the rally ridicule
* Page also accused the DOJ and FBI of 'politicizing' her messages with Strzok
* She said that Attorney General Bill Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should have come to her defense

Lisa Page says she was moved to break her silence about being targeted by Donald Trump after the president mimicked her having an orgasm at a campaign rally in October.

The former FBI attorney spoke with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night in her first televised interview since resigning from the Bureau following the release of text messages in which she and colleague Peter Strzok, with whom she was having an extramarital affair, criticized then-candidate Trump.

In the two years since those messages were made public, Trump has repeatedly ridiculed 'FBI lovebirds' Page and Strzok, including at several of his campaign rallies this fall.

Asked why she was speaking out now, Page told Maddow: 'Honestly I wasn't planning to and I didn't want to.

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WNU Editor: Lisa Page is also suing the US government .... Lisa Page sues FBI and DOJ, citing 'cost of therapy' after Trump mocked her salacious text messages (FOX News). I admit that I am from a different country and culture (i.e. my nationality is Russian). But I find this is too much. Stephen Green from Instapundit sums up my point of view ....

.... “My boss got mad at me for sexting with a married man on a company phone while we were also plotting against him, and now I’m emotionally disturbed,” doesn’t seem like a very solid basis for a lawsuit.

This was a saner country when people who did that kind of thing were mocked out of public life, rather than treated as victims and celebrities.

UPDATE: Harsh, but fair: