Wray to Replace Comey

Since the firing of James Comey on May 9^th, the time since has been very busy with Trump making many decisions from the American-Led Coalition against terrorism, to pulling out of the Paris Accord. One major decision that had yet to be announced was who will replace the fired FBI Director?

After the month-long search, Donald Trump released a statement on Twitter this morning announcing that Christopher Wray, a former Justice Department official, will lead the FBI during his administration.

The method which the president chose to announce the new Director has come under fire since former Director Comey is supposed to testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee tomorrow morning. President Trump remains adamant that this is the quickest way to reach his supporters as well as to deliver unfiltered news.

In the words of President Trump, Wray is a man of “impeccable credentials.” He received both his undergraduate degree and law degrees from Yale and got his start in the government in 1997 when he became a federal prosecutor in the northern district of Georgia.

Only four years later he found himself on the Hill, working as the deputy attorney general for the George W. Bush administration. He would stay in this role for two years until he was given a promotion to assistant attorney general in 2003, where he would lead the criminal division. After two years in this role, he decided to work in the private sector where he has been for the past 12 years.

Most recently, he represented New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the Bridgegate scandal, where two of his aides were accused and ultimately convicted of causing major traffic jams as payback against a mayor who didn’t endorse Christie’s presidential campaign.

The decision to hire Wray was not originally intended to take a month, but the administration hit many bumps along the way. When Comey was first fired, the administration did not have a frontrunner to even begin the interviewing process. They eventually found one in Senator Joe Liebermann, but he pulled himself out of contention, as did 5 others after him.

Last week they interviewed Wray and decided that he was the man for the job.

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