In keeping with Trump, the DOJ would go after Wray as a result of he “did a terrible job, and we just found out about it.”
Former FBI Director Christopher Wray
So this should be the primary time that Trump has focused Wray, since he “just found out about it,” proper?
It’s nonsense that everybody has to faux that Trump hasn’t been making an enemies checklist since Day 1, sending in Legal professional Common Pam Bondi to do his bidding. And Trump has been complaining about Wray for without end, because of Wray’s cussed insistence on following the legislation and investigating Trump’s behavior of purloining categorized paperwork and instigating insurrections.
There’s no clearer proof that Trump wished a loyalist within the job than who he selected to switch Wray, Kash Patel—undoubtedly the stupidest man to ever lead the FBI.
We all know from his posts following the taking pictures of Charlie Kirk that Patel tends to get out over his skis on social media, so he actually wasn’t going to overlook the golden alternative to publicly focus on Wray and the FBI.
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After Trump posted on Fact Social—with none proof—that the FBI secretly positioned 274 brokers within the crowd throughout the Jan. 6 riot of the U.S. Capitol to behave as “Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘Law Enforcement Officials,’” Patel set to work.
“274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan 6 against FBI standards. That failure was on corrupt leadership,” he wrote. “Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out. Transparency. Justice. Accountability.”
A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
One way or the other, this additionally implies that Wray lied to Congress, which is the Trump group’s present favourite approach to indict former FBI administrators.
Even when we be a part of within the fever dream that FBI brokers have been deployed for crowd management, Patel’s lament that this was “against FBI standards” is hilarious.
The Trump administration is presently utilizing FBI brokers for no matter it desires. They’ve been deployed to raid homeless encampments in Washington, D.C., the place they’ve additionally blown undercover operations through the use of unmarked FBI automobiles for Trump’s occupation of town. And with 20% of the FBI’s workforce redirected to Trump’s immigration crackdown, brokers have deserted their little one predator investigations.
Trump already has Patel utterly below his thumb, so there’s no want for his ongoing show of loyalism. However given how a lot Patel has been whining about not getting sufficient credit score for the sham indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, maybe he’ll take a much bigger position in no matter’s ginned up in opposition to Wray.
It’s all the time good to point out the boss you’re working onerous.
