Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray essentially served as the scapegoat for all of Trump's fury about his years of legal problems, a former FBI agent told a CNN anchor Wednesday.
Wray, facing pressure and the threat of dismissal, agreed to step down three years ahead of the end of his term this week, clearing the way for Trump — who appointed him in 2017 — to replace him with Kash Patel, a far-right conspiracy theorist with a long enemies list that even includes some Republicans.
"The chief criticism that we've heard from Donald Trump of Christopher Wray was the FBI searching Mar-a-Lago and, as Trump describes it, 'illegally raiding my home without cause,'" said anchor Boris Sanchez. "He talks about ... working diligently to illegally impeach and indict him. I wonder what you make of those criticisms of Wray if, fundamentally, that search of Mar-a-Lago was ordered by a court, it was approved by a grand jury, signed off on by a judge."
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With that in mind, he added, "Was there much that Christopher Wray could have done to please Donald Trump in that situation?"
"No, I believe that he was just in a position where he was going to be the fall guy and the — you know, he had those search, those searches of Mar-a-Lago and the other things surrounding that investigation and other investigations that are under question, were all legally obtained in front of a judge," said former Special Agent Dan Brunner. "Evidence had to be shown. Probable cause had to be shown. All the tracks of the — of the investigation up until that point had to be shown to the court before it was legally signed off, warrant, search warrant, and to conduct a search at Mar-a-Lago."
"So I believe that Director Wray — and I'm sure he had the final approval on the search — and at the end of the day, he's going to be the fall guy because he is the director of the FBI at the time of the search," he added. "So there had to be someone to take the brunt of the storm."
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