If I had to pick two of the worst people who served in the Trump administration, I would pick Anthony Fauci, who locked America down and destroyed the economy, and Christopher Wray, who weaponized the FBI to punish Christians and conservatives. Well, the Republicans finally got a chance to question Wray, and this is what they found out.
First, let’s start with a list of 19 times the Democrats politicized the FBI, compiled by Tristan Justice, over at The Federalist. This is from April 2023. Here are a few of them:
- Infiltration of Catholic Parishes
- Targeting Parents for Domestic Terrorism
- Campaign to frame Trump for Russia collusion
- Covering up Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server
- Pressuring Twitter to censor Hunter Biden laptop scandal
- Pressuring Facebook to censor Hunter Biden laptop scandal
- Pressuring FBI employees to slow walk Hunter Biden investigation
- Persecuting peaceful pro-life protestors
- Minimizing actual terrorist attacks by left-wing terrorists
- Orchestrating a fake plot to kidnap Michigan governor
- Providing biased evidence to Rittenhouse prosecutors
So with that in mind, let’s look at what Republicans asked the director of the FBI, from another article from The Federalist.
FBI involvement in orchestrating January 6th riot:
Wray dismissed allegations of undercover FBI involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as “ludicrous” and then refused to answer questions about the scale of the agency’s confirmed involvement.
[…]California Republican Darrell Issa immediately pressed Wray for answers on FBI operations that day wherein undercover informants wherein the Justice Department deployed “national” forces out of the FBI installation at Quantico with “shoot to kill” authority.
“How many individuals were either FBI employees or people that the FBI had made contact with, were in the January 6th entry of the Capitol and surrounding area?” Issa asked.
“I really need to be careful here [when] talking about where we have or have not used confidential human sources,” Wray said.
Pipe bombs:
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie stepped up the pressure on Wray to give Congress answers over the agency’s effort to track down the suspected pipe bomber who left devices at both the RNC and DNC on Jan. 6.
In May, Reps. Massie and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, demanded an FBI briefing on the pipe bomb cases after a whistleblower revealed the agency identified the car used by the prime suspect but refused to track the vehicle down. Both bombs were reportedly inoperable, according to the whistleblower.
Wray sought to hide behind longstanding departmental policy not to comment on active investigations.
Massie reminded Wray that it’s been 900 days since the bombs were discovered.
Censoring social media posts critical of the Biden administration policies:
Wray defended the FBI’s relationship with the Russian-infiltrated intelligence agency in Ukraine to censor American speech. The Security Service of Ukraine, Wray said, which has been notoriously compromised by the Kremlin, is a “longstanding good partner” of the FBI.
A new interim report from the House Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government out Monday revealed the FBI colluded with the Ukrainian agency to flag social media posts to Silicon Valley tech giants for censorship.
FBI agents armed with assault rifles arrest peaceful pro-lifer in pre-dawn raid, in front of his wife and children:
Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy pressed the FBI director over the agency’s armed raid and arrest of a Christian pro-life activist named Mark Houck last fall.
“I’m not going to second-guess the judgment of the career agents on the ground who made the determination,” Wray said.
“But your job is to second guess and look at what they’re doing,” Roy said.
Houck was ultimately acquitted of all charges in January.
Protecting the Biden crime family:
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz accused the FBI of engaging in double standards of justice by protecting the Biden family. According to whistleblowers within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the FBI concealed critical records from federal tax investigators, including an unclassified FD-1023 form implicating the president and Hunter Biden in a multi-million-dollar bribery scheme with foreign actors.
Targeting parents concerned about public schools indoctrinating their kids in secular leftist propaganda:
California Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley asked Wray whether the FBI director believed the Justice Department should rescind a memo directing staff to surveil concerned parents who show up at school board meetings.
In March, House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee published an interim staff report that concluded the Biden administration had “no legitimate basis” for deploying counterterrorism resources on parents.
“It appears, from these documents and the information received previously,” the report read, “that the Administration’s actions were a political offensive meant to quell swelling discord over controversial education curricula and unpopular school board decisions.”
“Should Attorney General Garland rescind that memo?” Kiley asked.
Wray deferred the question to the attorney general.
“I think the FBI conducted itself the way it should here,” Wray said.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sure that Trump could have nominated someone better than Wray. We can do better in 2024. But we have to pick for results.
Trump’s cabinet was forced upon him by the Deep State. No one he would have picked on his own would have been accepted by the Washington Establishment and would most likely have been compromised out of office.
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