By mid-May, the morning of a Trump tweetstorm in which he called the investigation into potential collusion “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!” neither agent could muster more than shock.

“Wow. Wow wow wow,” Page texted that morning. “Sad for me, even Bob Mueller can’t stop the 4:20 wakeups.”

“How far we’ve gone…” Page texted on Feb. 27, linking to a New York Times article noting former President George W. Bush’s criticism of Trump’s nascent presidency.

“Yeah we’re pretty much a catastrophuck right now,” Strzok responded, quoting a source in another Times article who said of Trump that the Russians “think he is unstable, that he can be manipulated.”