As he did with James Comey, Trump should fire Christopher Wray and replace him with someone who, by any means necessary, will make the FBI accountable to Congress and the people.
By Lloyd Billingsley, Frontpage Magazine
President Trump has chosen Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and to head the CIA Trump wants John Ratcliffe, a man highly qualified in light of recent events.
As Trump’s DNI in 2020, Ratcliffe looked into intelligence community involvement in “Crossfire Hurricane” one of several FBI operations against candidate and President Trump and his picks for key posts in his administration such as Gen. Michael Flynn.
The mastermind of those operations was Clinton loyalist James Comey, the FBI boss Trump duly fired. Comey was replaced by Christopher Wray, who denied that the bureau had spied on Trump. The case is strong that, of all the officials Trump needs to replace, Wray is the worst.
On July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, a 20-year-old with no tactical experience easily avoided the Secret Service, gained a clear rooftop shooting position, and unleashed eight shots.
Had Donald Trump not turned his head toward a chart, he would have been shot dead, as was rally attendee Corey Comperatore, and the sniper wounded two others. The FBI did nothing to prevent this attack, and the aftermath gave the people cause to wonder.
The bureau employs ballistics and crime-scene experts but none was present when Wray, in his first statement after the assassination attempt, contended that Trump might have been hit by “shrapnel,” instead of an assassin’s bullet.
It was like saying the 9/11 victims had been killed by falling glass, instead of terrorists flying airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. In the run-up to the 2024 election, the FBI’s priority wasn’t those seeking to kill Trump but those who might vote for him.
“Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears” headlined the October 4, 2023 Newsweek report, based on a confidential FBI source.
As the report explained, “the federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers.”
As it turned out, they were the ones with cause to worry about deadly violence.
On August 9, 2023, an FBI SWAT team shot and killed Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker who had allegedly made online threats against Joe Biden and other Democrats.
The shooting of Robertson was reportedly under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division, which as self-review would be meaningless. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also known for blocking criminal investigations.
On March 27, 2023, in advance of the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale gunned down three nine-year-old students and three adults at a Christian School in Nashville. Motive is the key factor in any murder investigation, but the FBI opposed release of Hale’s detailed manifesto. In other ways, the bureau remained curious.
On March 8, 2022, the FBI mounted a raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, reportedly looking for classified documents. That did not prevent armed agents from ransacking the garments of former First Lady Melania Trump, a tacit confession that the raid was bogus.
Mrs. Trump cited this invasion of privacy as her reason for skipping her husband’s meeting with Joe Biden, the waxworks effigy of a president who likely ordered the raid in the first place. The Delaware Democrat had scattered classified documents all over his residence but the FBI showed no interest.
By this time, the FBI had become Biden’s personal Geheime Staatspolizei and KGB.
In similar style in 2016, the composite character David Garrow profiled in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama deployed the FBI to help his chosen successor Hillary Clinton and harm candidate and President Trump. That was only the beginning of their partisan deployment.
On February 21, 2020, the body of Philip Haney author of See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad, was “found deceased” in Amador County, California, killed by a gunshot to the chest.
The FBI seized Haney’s laptop, thumb drives and such but has yet to reveal the contents. The bureau of “investigation” proves adept at concealing evidence.
In 2022, the FBI defied a court order to hand over information from the laptop of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer murdered in July of 2016.
Weeks after the murder, Wikileaks published 20,000 emails obtained from Democratic National Committee computers via an anonymous source, which could have been Rich.
Rich’s laptop could be the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Russia collusion hoax, which Democrats deployed President Trump. Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz has now revived that hoax with the charge that Trump DNI pick Tulsi Gabbard is “likely a Russian asset.”
As he did with James Comey, Trump should fire Christopher Wray and replace him with someone who, by any means necessary, will make the FBI accountable to Congress and the people. Such a common-sense move is long overdue.
In 1993, the FBI failed to stop the bomb attack on the World Trade Center, which killed six people. The FBI failed to prevent the massive terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, with some 3,000 dead.
The bureau also failed to stop terrorist mass murders at Fort Hood in 2009 (14 dead), the Boston Marathon in 2013 (three deaths), San Bernardino in 2015 (14 dead), and Orlando in 2016, with 49 dead.
The FBI played no role in the takedown of the terrorists, ably handled by local police.
“Memory against forgetting” should be the motto of the Trump administration moving forward.