Donald Trump suddenly has a Chris Wray problem
Each time Donald Trump nominates someone to a key position in his administration, he does so with the expectation that the person in question will corruptly do his bidding and protect him from investigation. Sometimes that’s worked out for Trump, and sometimes it hasn’t. Now it appears he has quite a problem brewing on his hands when it comes to his handpicked FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Considering that Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey specifically to try to stop the Trump-Russia investigation, it’s a given that when Trump subsequently appointed Chris Wray to replace Comey, he thought he was picking someone who would be personally loyal to him. But from the start, Wray has said all the appropriate things in public, and there’s no evidence that Wray is trying to rig things for Trump behind the scenes. Now that’s coming to a head.
After Donald Trump’s cartoonishly corrupt Attorney General William Barr publicly and falsely claimed that the FBI had been “spying” on the Trump campaign, Chris Wray publicly shot down this nonsense. We’ve all been waiting for Trump to finally turn his ire toward Wray, and last night it happened. Trump tweeted this quote from Fox News stooge Lou Dobbs: “Even Director James Clapper admits that the FBI actions against the Trump Presidential Campaign do in fact meet the definition of spying, perhaps FBI Director Christopher Wray will be the next to do so.” To be clear, that’s not what Clapper actually said. Then Trump added a quote from another of his puppets: “The FBI has no leadership. The Director is protecting the same gang that tried to overthrow the President through an illegal coup.”
The important thing here is that Donald Trump is finally attacking Christopher Wray in public, over Wray’s refusal to go along with Trump’s phony “spying” narrative. Trump is clearly upset, but what’s he going to do? If he were to fire another FBI Director, particularly right now as his scandals are exploding, it would only make things worse for him. But things are clearly coming to a head between Trump and Wray – and that may not end well for either of them.
