How WaPo discredits Trump through hiding relevant logic

“As Mueller reluctantly agrees to testify, Trump goes on the attack and Democrats hope for the best”,
By Matt Zapotosky, Mike DeBonis, Rachael Bade and John Wagner
Washington Post, 2019-06-26

Consider the following excerpt (with some emphasis added) from the above article.

Jordan also said he and his GOP colleagues are planning to grill Mueller about his handling of FBI lawyer Lisa Page and FBI agent Peter Strzok,
who worked on the case and were found by a previous inspector general’s investigation to have exchanged numerous anti-Trump text messages.
...
Trump renewed his attack on Page and Strzok on Wednesday, claiming during a wide-ranging interview with Fox Business Network that Mueller had “terminated” their texts.

“They’re gone,” Trump said. “And that’s illegal. That’s a crime.”

Trump seemed to be referring to a report made public in December that said the Justice Department inspector general
could not recover texts from the phones assigned to Strzok and Page for their work with Mueller because
by the time investigators requested the devices,
they had been reset in preparation for others to use them.

The inspector general wrote there was “no evidence” that Strzok and Page “attempted to circumvent” the FBI’s data-retention policies, and the “content of the text messages did not appear to be a factor” in whether and how the messages were retained.
The report makes no mention of Mueller’s playing any role in the deletion of texts and notes that the Justice Department had told investigators it “routinely resets mobile devices to factory settings” when they are returned to be given to other users.

Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team in July 2017 — and ultimately fired from the FBI last year — after the communications were discovered.

But wait a minute.
Consider again
“Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team in July 2017 — and ultimately fired from the FBI last year — after the communications were discovered.”
If Strzok had to be “removed from Mueller’s team” because some anti-Trump messages had been discovered among his emails,
would not any semblance of a competent investigator want to preserve his communications device to see if there were other inappropriate messages on it?
I mean, come on.
The Special Counsel's office couldn't see the need for that, until it was too late?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Something is truly rotten here.
And WaPo couldn't see that, and point it out themselves?
Something rotten there too.
Talk about a Deep State conspiracy to see no merit in Trump's points.