President Donald Trump suggested a criminal investigation into Christopher Wray, his designated to direct the office in his first term, after a conservative media reported the false statement that the FBI agents were involved in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“I imagine. I certainly imagine. I think they are doing that,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News when asked if the Department of Justice should investigate Wray.
Trump appointed Wray to direct the office in 2017 after saying goodbye to former FBI director James Comey. Comey was accused of a grand jury last week for charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing an investigation of the Congress after Trump a few days before Pam Bondi urged the attorney general Pam Bondi to act “now” to prosecute her enemies.
In a brief video posted on his Instagram account, Comey said: “My heart is broken to the Department of Justice. I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I am innocent, so we have a trial and keep the faith.”
Wray chose to start from the office before Trump assumed the position of his second mandate because he had fears that Trump dismissed him could cause agitation within the department. Wray had also attracted Trump’s anger about research on the electoral interference of the insurrection of January 6 at the United States Capitol and the management of Trump’s classified documents, which were removed after Trump won the 2024 elections.
The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, talks about Attorney General Merrick Garland during Garland’s farewell tribute in the great hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice, on January 16, 2025, in Washington, DC
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Trump began to suggest that Wray should be investigated by the Department of Justice after the conservative exit The Blaze, citing an unidentified Congress source, reported last week that 274 FBI agents had been embedded in the Pro-Trump mafia that assaulted the Capitol.
Trump promoted the history of Blaze on its social media platform on Saturday, saying: “It has just been revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all rules, regulations, protocols and standards, 274 FBI agents on the crowd just before and during January 6 Hoaax. This is different from what the director Christopher, Wray, is once again! acting as agitators and insurrectionists, but certainly not as “officials responsible for enforcing the law.”
“Christopher Wray, the then director of the FBI, has some important explanations. That is two consecutive, Comey and Wray, who were caught lying, with our great country at stake.”
The Inspector General of the DOJ found no evidence that the FBI had undercover employees in the multitude of protests in a December 2024 report. He also said that the FBI deployed tactical resources in the Capitol after the building had been violated by protesters and reports of two pipe bombs discovered at the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic National Party.
That report also said that while there were 26 informants in Washington, DC, which were called within the FBI as “confidential human sources”, or CHSS, the IG did not discover any evidence that suggested that anyone received instructions to join the assault on the Capitol or encourage the illegal activity of the members of the crowd.
The IG Report did not find failures that the agents were sent to the Capitol where the police had been overwhelmed and thousands of federal crimes had been committed, from the transfer and the assault on federal officers to the sedicious conspiracy.
It is not clear immediately if Wray will be placed in a criminal investigation, but Trump’s interview with NBC and his publications on social networks during the weekend show that it seems to be increasingly emboldened following the accusation of Comey to request the prosecution of more political enemies.
In comments to journalists outside the White House last week, Trump suggested that he expected more criminal charges against his opponents while he denied that he was applying any direct pressure to the leadership of the Department of Justice.
“It’s not a list, but I think there will be others,” Trump told reporters. “I hope there are others.”
