President Trump Taps Former Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray as New FBI Director

TRUMP NOMINATES CHRISTOPHER WRAY TO BE NEW FBI DIRECTOR …

In a tweet this morning from President Donald Trump, he has picked former assistant attorney general Christopher Wray as new FBI director. Trump also posted on Twitter that Wray is a “man of impeccable credentials” and saying more details would follow. Christopher Wray is currently a partner at the Washington law firm King & Spalding and led the Justice Department’s Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005 under President GWB. According to the NY Times, Wray is a safe, mainstream pick from a president who at one point was considering politicians for a job that has historically been kept outside of politics. Wray appears to be a breath of fresh air to the FBI director position.

President Trump said Wednesday that he had selected the former federal prosecutor Christopher Wray, now a partner at the Washington law firm King & Spalding, to be his new F.B.I. director.

The announcement comes a day before the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey was scheduled to testify about Mr. Trump’s attempts to get him to end the bureau’s investigation into his former national security adviser’s contacts with Russia. The action may represent an attempt to inject credibility into an investigation rocked by controversy and accusations of presidential tampering.

Mr. Wray is a safe, mainstream pick from a president who at one point was considering politicians for a job that has historically been kept outside of politics. Mr. Wray, a former assistant attorney general overseeing the criminal division under President George W. Bush, is likely to allay the fears of F.B.I. agents who worried that Mr. Trump would try to weaken or politicize the F.B.I.