The hearing was a circus, with Republicans pressing Director Wray about various conspiracy theories and generally doing whatever they could do to portray the FBI as a corrupt extension of the Biden administration.
. The hearing was a circus, with Republicans pressing Wray about various conspiracy theories and generally doing whatever they could do to portray the FBI as a corrupt extension of the Biden administration.
Democrats spent their time highlighting the absurdity of the idea, considering Wray is a registered Republican appointed by Trump. Rep. poked several additional holes in the argument that Democrats have weaponized the Justice Department to take down Trump allies, noting that multiple such Trump allies were convicted while Trump was still in office.
“We don’t have a two-tiered system of justice,” Lieu said. “We have one Department of Justice that goes after criminals regardless of party ideology. All of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate Republican attorneys general. It is not the fault of the FBI that Donald Trump surrounded himself with criminals. Donald Trump brought that upon himself.”
Republicans are desperately trying to convince America this isn’t the case, and that Trump’s legal woes are part of a vast conspiracy to keep the former president from retaking the White House. Rep. Darrell Issa even tried to push the idea that the riot at the Capitol was orchestrated by the FBI, which Wray called “ludicrous.” Rep. Thomas Massie suggested a pipe bomb found outside the Democratic National Committee on Jan. 6 may, too, have been a false flag. Rep.
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