“It seems that individuals in the Justice Department at the highest levels who seem to state the facts and the law as they exist seem to not do well,' said former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Elliot Williams.
Former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump may soon choose to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the bureau's FY 2020 budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 7 in Washington, D.C. He could soon be President Donald Trump's latest casualty. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Barr first used the word “spying” to describe the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign during a congressional hearing last month. The remark drew strong criticism from Democrats, who argued he chose the term to bolster the image Trump has painted of himself, as the victim of a hostile investigation. But Barr defended the comment before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
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