Speaking out for the first time about some of the claims Donald Trump has made regarding the role of federal law enforcement, FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was appointed to the job by Trump in 2017, told NBC News he would not allow any investigations that does not follow “our rules, our procedures, our best practices, our core values.”
In charge of the agency that searched Trump’s Earth-bound Purgatory in Palm Beach, Florida, Wray was never a favorite of Trump’s but Wray became another target of Trump’s ire after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. He rejected much of Trump’s characterizations of FBI activities relating to the investigation of January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress.
“I see the defendants in the January 6th cases as criminal defendants who are being charged with federal crimes, and are in front of independent courts as part of our legal system,” Wray said. “In our country, there are all sorts of people who are upset and angry about all sorts of things, about all sorts of people. But there is a right way under the First Amendment to express how upset you are. And violence, violence against law enforcement, destruction of federal property, is not it.”