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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:35 PM Jun 2018

FBI Director Christopher Wray Rejects Trump's Russia 'Witch Hunt' Claims in Senate Hearing

Source: Mediate

by Aidan McLaughlin | 3:56 pm, June 18th, 2018

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee alongside Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz about a report on the Bureau’s handling of the Clinton and Trump investigations.

Wray was asked about a claim President Donald Trump has been making for months: that special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia is a witch hunt. He recently used the IG report, which found instances of anti-Trump bias by certain FBI agents, completely discredits the Mueller probe.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (R-VT) asked Wray about Trump’s claims that the Mueller probe has been “totally discredited” by the IG report, a claim the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani echoed on cable news. “The Special Counsel investigation has already resulted in an indictment of 20 individuals and three Russian companies,” Leahy continued. “Do you have any reason to believe that this investigation has been discredited?”

“Senator, as I said to you last month and as I said before, I don’t believe Special Counsel Mueller is on a witch hunt,” Wray replied.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray Rejects Trump's Russia 'Witch Hunt' Claims in Senate Hearing (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP

Keeping the phrase "witch hunt" repeated is good for Trump, unfortunately oberliner Jun 2018 #1

Lots of Trump associates are witches. And he is not finished. If enough Ds vote 2018 he will finish Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #5

And if you remember the origin of the word warlock meant oathbreaker....eom Maeve Jun 2018 #7

It's not a strong enough denial bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #2

Perhaps he is projecting again. He believes he has supernatural warlock like powers. Marcuse Jun 2018 #3

This is why he makes sphincter mouth: so he doesn't look like his two sons. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #4

Thank you Mr. wray riversedge Jun 2018 #6

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

1. Keeping the phrase "witch hunt" repeated is good for Trump, unfortunately

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:39 PM

Jun 2018

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,047 posts)

5. Lots of Trump associates are witches. And he is not finished. If enough Ds vote 2018 he will finish

Reply to oberliner (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 06:38 PM

Jun 2018

Maeve

(42,294 posts)

7. And if you remember the origin of the word warlock meant oathbreaker....eom

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 07:29 PM

Jun 2018

bucolic_frolic

(43,352 posts)

2. It's not a strong enough denial

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:56 PM

Jun 2018

it leaves the door open to differences of opinion as a reasonable thing, two people could see it differently. "The FBI does not engage in witch hunts" would be a bit stronger.