WASHINGTON (AP) — Chris Wray has been formally installed as the new FBI director.
He replaces James Comey, who was fired in May by President Donald Trump after fewer than four years on the job.
The ceremony at FBI headquarters on Thursday was notable because neither Comey nor Robert Mueller, who preceded him as FBI director, was present.
Mueller is now leading a Justice Department investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. As part of that probe, he and his team of investigators are looking into the circumstances of Comey’s firing.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke at the ceremony.
Wray was a former high-ranking Justice Department official during the George W. Bush administration.
Everything about this nomination and confirmation stinks, and I have a strong feeling this guy’s going to play a role we don’t like in the coming months.
Trump and his team would not have chosen him if he wasn’t going to be loyal, that we know.
I’m wary that something’s awry with Wray.
I know nothing of Wray but one wonders what kinds of assurances he had to make to the Trumpsters to secure this appointment - e.g., to do his best to impeded Mueller’s investigation.
What a sad country this has become.
Anything and everyone touched by Trump are corrupted but Wray at least has the appearance of competency. He’ll think twice before throwing himself under the bus on Trump’s behalf.
Link Wray? That’s awesome, didn’t know he was still playing.