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[–]barawo33[S,M] [スコア非表示] stickied comment (36子コメント)

Here's the rundown on Christopher Wray with Sources:

Trump picks Christie "bridgegate" Lawyer Christopher Wray as FBI Director. West was also a Rosneft lawyer.

Edit2 NEW: Trumps FBI Director Nominee Wray Is Partner at Law Firm Representing Russia's National Oil Company Rosneft kslaw.com/imageserver/KS…

Edit3 NEW: Christopher Wray's law firm advises Trump's trust, which holds his business assets bit.ly/2r5ADyh

Almost no news stations or talk shows are mentioning his Russian ties or Christie connection. Hit SUBSCRIBE (top left mobile and sidebar on desktop) so you can see the truth since Trump is silencing the media now too. Without your help they will try to silence us as well.

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[–]ExTractorFan 4703 ポイント4704 ポイント  (570子コメント)

You're fucking kidding me.

[–]barawo33[S] 1272 ポイント1273 ポイント  (212子コメント)

That's my thought. I swear you can't make this stuff up.

[–][deleted] 391 ポイント392 ポイント  (181子コメント)

This man is incompetent beyond all limits. We went from the class, intelligence and competence of Obama to someone who has no clue what he is doing and is literally destroying the very fabric of out nation. It will take decades for our country to recover.

How did it come to this?

[–]pi22seven 453 ポイント454 ポイント  (88子コメント)

We have a presidential election system with game show rules that allows you to win with fewer points.

[–]MondayAssasin 298 ポイント299 ポイント  (9子コメント)

Welcome to the presidential election, where the policies are made up and the votes don't matter.

[–]3226 186 ポイント187 ポイント  (48子コメント)

"And Hilary's been doing very well up until now, but... Oh look, Trump has the golden snitch rendering the entire rest of the game meaningless!"

[–]ThVos 69 ポイント70 ポイント  (36子コメント)

From a game design standpoint, the snitch should've been worthless, or only worth a single point, with only the purpose of ending the game.

[–]throbbingmadness 26 ポイント27 ポイント  (9子コメント)

I dunno, making it worth 10 or 20 points would allow situations where both teams want to catch it. Which could be desirable, if it makes the game more exciting without cheapening goals.

Come to think of it, if the value were 5 or 15, it would also prevent ties...

[–]ThVos 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Agreed, generally. Even still, though, that it just ends the game when the snitch is caught is weird game design. I can't think of any other game where scoring when behind can run counter to the overall goal of winning the game.

[–]Archsys 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (4子コメント)

A few euro board games have scoring systems where ending the game early can fuck you out of winning if you're not keeping track of score (or, moreover, if you're not able to due to hidden content). It's not unheard of.

[–]PurpleTopp 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (8子コメント)

That was always dumb to me. In one of the books, didn't a team have the most points in the quiddich cup but still lost the whole thing because someone on the other team caught the snitch?

Seems like a silly mechanic to me.

[–]Sardonnicus 55 ポイント56 ポイント  (40子コメント)

a slow manipulation. It's time to burn it down and start over. Please note I am not an anarchist. I want us to have a government that works for the people. Currently we do not have that. We have a hostile government and I consider them just as much as a threat as i'd consider an invading army. Our enemies are not in some other country... they are right here in our government. Our revolutionary war was fought over much less. It needs to happen again. Power to the people. May liberty march over the faces of tyranny.

[–]JacobMitonOfficial 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (23子コメント)

Honestly, looking him up a little, he doesn't seem that bad and has good credentials.

http://www.kslaw.com/people/Christopher-Wray

However, looking into Bridgegate really worries me and shows a Trump bias.

[–]silverdevilboy 58 ポイント59 ポイント  (17子コメント)

He's got decent history as long as you ignore all his current conflicts of interest, which Trump's administration will not make him quit.

The director of the FBI would also be a partner representing the russian oil firm. No matter who it is, that's a problem.

Add in that his firm represents Trump's business trusts and the biggest thing that the FBI are doing is investigating Trump's campaign connections to Russia, and you have a guy who has conflicts of interest with Russia and Trump as director of the agency that should be investigating the links between the two.

That's a problem.

[–]sleepcantwont 47 ポイント48 ポイント  (14子コメント)

I just.. shouldn't the director of the fbi be someone from within the organization who knows it in and out ? Why does every bureaucratic shit function this way? Why appoint some motherfucker who hasn't ever worked in the organization, to RUN IT?

[–]silverdevilboy 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (12子コメント)

The problem with internal candidates like that is that Congress have to be able to inspect and approve them. Someone whose worked in the FBI for decades is going to have almost no history that Congress can actually look at to assess the candidate.

In almost every other position, I agree fully. But I think there is value in having an independent official whose moral character and beliefs can be verified provide direction to the agencies, because those who have worked there their entire careers almost certainly have little regard for people's privacy and rights

This is not a person like that.

[–]armrha 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Someone whose worked in the FBI for decades is going to have almost no history that Congress can actually look at to assess the candidate.

Why not? Congress can get access to his entire career.

[–]danielrgfm 346 ポイント347 ポイント  (23子コメント)

But you can give it a shot! enjoy - https://tweeterino.com/realDonaldTrump

[–]djb007_96 256 ポイント257 ポイント  (16子コメント)

[–]rhythmreview 108 ポイント109 ポイント  (11子コメント)

"If Ivanka weren't my daughter, then perhaps we'd be dating"

[–]rayne117 106 ポイント107 ポイント  (6子コメント)

"If Ivanka weren't my daughter, then I would have shagged her more."

[–]jurij_lanfranco 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (4子コメント)

"If Ivanka weren't my daughter, then I would have already grabbed her by the pussy."

[–]Zoltrahn 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Wendy Williams to Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?"

Ivanka, "Either real estate or golf."

Trump, "Well, I was going to say sex, but I can't relate that to her."

[–][deleted] 1384 ポイント1385 ポイント  (130子コメント)

BREAKING: Trump FBI Director Nominee Wray Is Partner at Law Firm Representing Russia's National Oil Company Rosneft

https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/872443195266912257

More Witnesses Come Forward And Confirm Trump Tried To Obstruct The Russia Investigation

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/06/comey-witnesses-officials-comey-begged-sessions-left-trump.html

Holy shit it just goes deeper and deeper, the Russian ties are undeniable. Anyone who says there is no evidence is denying basic reality, the list just keeps growing every day.

Edit: HOLY SHIT ITS OVER FOR HIM:

Hearing Nightmare For Trump: Top Officials Won’t Answer If They Were Asked To Intervene On Russia

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/07/hearing-nightmare-trump-top-officials-answer-asked-intervene-russia.html

Once Comey speaks tomorrow it will be over for Trump, death by a thousand cuts. The evidence is overwhelming, the FBI is eager to hit Trump back and most Americans want him impeached. Prepare to celebrate taking our country back from Russian alt-right takeover.

[–]boogietime 204 ポイント205 ポイント  (58子コメント)

The idea that every lawyer at any law firm that has a Russian client is "compromised" is legitimately McCarthyism. It's utter nonsense and makes the actual concern (direct representation of Christie) seem equally ridiculous. King and Spalding has nearly 1000 attorneys. You cannot logically claim that every single one is compromised simply because the firm represented Rosneft at some point.

Let me quickly show you how utterly stupid this argument makes you look. Flynn is represented by Robert Kelner, a partner a Covington Burling. Know who else is a partner at Covington Burling? Eric Holder. Obviously this means that Holder, and by extension Obama, are Flynn's accomplices!!! /s

Dumb argument is dumb. There is a reason the twitter warriors are breaking this story and not the MSM. MSM realizes how stupid this sounds.

[–]ryegye24 163 ポイント164 ポイント  (5子コメント)

I agree with everything you wrote in your first paragraph. But Wray isn't just a lawyer there. He's a partner. And this isn't just "a Russian client". This is fucking Rosneft.

[–]SasquatchButterpants 59 ポイント60 ポイント  (4子コメント)

It wouldn't be suspect if he wasn't tied to trumps business assets.

[–]neutral_fence_sitter 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (5子コメント)

The idea that every lawyer at any law firm that has a Russian client is "compromised" is legitimately McCarthyism.

And apparently the notion that we should be looking for people without conflicts of interest is a fairy tale.

This guy isn't being represented by the same lawfirm as someone from Russia, he's a lawyer at the law firm representing Russia's largest gas companies largest US deal.

Your Flyn and Holder argument is not meaningful. We pick people to run the FBI and it's investigation into the Russians that don't have Russian connections. I can't believe how you don't realize how stupid this sounds.

[–]TrickyDTrump 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (8子コメント)

The idea that every lawyer at any law firm that has a Russian client is "compromised" is legitimately McCarthyism.

Not really. It'd be McCarthyism if the parties making accusations of subversion or treason were doing so without proper regard for evidence. Evidence is the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid (that PDF). Trump hasn't released his tax returns and there's nothing proving that Wray doesn't have ties (financial or otherwise) with Rosneft. So saying "you can't prove it" with the McCarthyism argument doesn't fly because that PDF constitutes reasonable suspicion until either of those things I mentioned happen OR the Rosneft accusations have been ruled out.

EDIT: added link

[–]bloatedplutocrat 293 ポイント294 ポイント  (64子コメント)

What's the over/under on how long before we find out he has previously displayed contempt for and desire to destroy the FBI?

[–][deleted] 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (18子コメント)

Just heard on TYT that he is well known to be a crook and defended Christie in the "bridgegate" scandal.

Trump shows his stunning evil and corruption yet again.

[–]Osuwrestler 77 ポイント78 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Wait, Christie's lawyer defended him???? Crazy!!!! It's like Christie is paying him to do just that!

[–]cyberst0rm 141 ポイント142 ポイント  (84子コメント)

no on, slow down, hear me out.

The more bottom of the barrel these nominees come from, the more likely it is that he's going to be gone soon.

It isn't because they're bad picks, but it's because anyone with 2 cents and qualifications know that he's useless.

Not that watching the orange menace is a good thing, but if there was a serious candidate here, we'd be even more screwed.

[–]hardworkworks 95 ポイント96 ポイント  (15子コメント)

During primaries I was hoping Trump would win because "there was no way in hell he would win the general election." Man, am I eating my words.

Same applies here. You shouldn't say I hope he does a shitty job because that's more reason to impeach him. He's consistently done a shitty job and no major consequences have came from it.

[–][deleted] 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (10子コメント)

There is no way in hell he gets away with this Russian collusion. We will see removed from office, there is way too much evidence that they colluded with Russia and commited treason.

[–]thumbkeyz 71 ポイント72 ポイント  (2子コメント)

You underestimate republicans and what they would do for a dollar.

[–]GeneralTonic 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Only if we elect a Democratic Congress next year. The GOP is beyond hope, from its voters to its officials.

[–]fdp137 79 ポイント80 ポイント  (5子コメント)

The only problem is that trumps people are just as bat shit insane as he is and will probably be worse at the job than he is

[–]TheTrub 42 ポイント43 ポイント  (2子コメント)

And the current GOP led congress is not going to reject anyone trump nominates.

[–]elhooper 31 ポイント32 ポイント  (1子コメント)

and his supporters will eat it up because if Donald Trump says it's good, it's good.

[–][deleted] 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Republicans have gone completely insane. They no longer accept reality and refuse to see the overwhelming evidence of Russian collusion.

They are all implicated int this.

[–][deleted] 47 ポイント48 ポイント  (4子コメント)

https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/872443195266912257

This guy is literally another Russian puppet. Trump just keeps implicating himself more and more. I can't wait till Comey destroys him on Thursday, get ready to celebrate as Drumpf is shackled by the FBI soon.

[–]duckandcover 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why not? After all Betsy Devos, a fundie wingnut idiot that hates public education, was confirmed as Sec of Ed.

That being said, with the FBI in the spotlight now, even the GOP senate might not be in the mood for this BS

[–]e1349b 55 ポイント56 ポイント  (56子コメント)

I don't know anything about this dude. Why is he bad?

[–]OneOfDozens 202 ポイント203 ポイント  (33子コメント)

Works for the firm repping Rosfnet, the company in the middle of the entire conspiracy, they gave Trump and his people millions in oil money in order to get him to drop sanctions and "be nice" to Russia

[–]e1349b 76 ポイント77 ポイント  (15子コメント)

Jesus

[–]OneOfDozens 127 ポイント128 ポイント  (14子コメント)

they literally could not care less about how blatant they are, and the day after eric trump admits he and the family have been stealing charity money for cancer kids, he then says

"“I’ve never seen hatred like this,” he said on Fox News’s “Hannity” Tuesday night. “To me, they’re not even people. It’s so, so sad. Morality’s just gone, morals have flown out the window and we deserve so much better than this as a country."

“You see the Democratic Party, they’re imploding. They’re imploding. They became obstructionists because they have no message of their own.”"

They're literally projecting everything, they're going with the usual dictator playbook of dehumanizing the enemy and encouraging their supporters to continue violently attacking liberals, there was yet another fatal stabbing this weekend

[–]Ragnarok314159 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (1子コメント)

The incident marks the third stabbing in six years for Wade.

In March of 2011, Wade stabbed 23-year-old Justin Garza in the Brentwood BART park-and-ride after an argument on the train carried into the parking lot. Garza survived the incident.

Then in August of 2013, Wade fatally stabbed 49-year-old Kann Cendejas, a homeless veteran, at a Chevron gas station in the 3200 block of Delta Fair Boulevard in Antioch.

What the actual fuck?!? This Paragon of all Trump supporters stabbed a homeless veteran, and was allowed to see the outside of a jail cell?

[–]SallyYatesTheHero 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (7子コメント)

He is the former assistant AG that took down Enron. Handled the post 9/11 stuff for the justice department too. He use to work with Sally Yates. He is well respected by Dems.

[–]chickenboneneck 1723 ポイント1724 ポイント  (97子コメント)

Should be noted that Wray's law firm represents Rosneft.

Edit: Thanks for the gold, anon. You're a real patriot.

[–]inkw3ll 423 ポイント424 ポイント  (23子コメント)

Consider that Russia is currently the number 1 oil producer on Earth with Rosneft, their state-run oil company, being the number 1 oil company in the world. It's no wonder he pulled out of the Paris Accord. It benefits Kremlin's oligarchy and their oil barons. Let alone the oil barons here at home.

Consider how former Exxon-CEO (now US Secretary of State) Rex Tillerson was awarded a medal into the "Russian Order of Friendship", and was pinned by Putin himself. This esteemed Russian medal was pinned on Tillerson by Putin after Exxon signed oil deals with Russia's state-run oil company Rosneft, to drill for oil in the Arctic’s Kara Sea.

Now consider how Trump appoints Christopher Wray as FBI Director, who's law firm represents Rosneft. The White House has been compromised, and Trump has sold out America.

[–]Luc3121 148 ポイント149 ポイント  (10子コメント)

Now consider it was mentioned in the Steele dossier that Trump would be given 19.5% share in Rosneft by Russia.

[–]sofakinghuge 43 ポイント44 ポイント  (0子コメント)

iirc It didn't specifically outline who would get it but that it was part of the deal with the implication being Trump would directly benefit. They've played him so well to this point that I doubt he's even getting the majority of it. His business MO isn't being a good negotiator and is instead just not paying his bills and finding the next sucker to loan him money. It worked up until he had to start borrowing from Russians and whatever Chinese ties he has that aren't being fully brought up yet. He can't stall them using our legal system so he's actively working to pay them back somehow.

[–]wooq 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (2子コメント)

And that Rosneft did give exactly a 19.5% share to ... Singapore and Qatar?... through a series of shell companies that ends up in ... someone's ... Cayman islands shell company.

[–][deleted] 80 ポイント81 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Trumpettes right now:

"BUT HER EMAILS"

[–]beach-bum 250 ポイント251 ポイント  (55子コメント)

And the plot thickens . . .

[–]fist_taco 501 ポイント502 ポイント  (51子コメント)

The real tragedy is not having Christopher Hitchens with us to comment on all this drama.

Edit: Thank you kind gilder. Seems there's lots of love for Hitchens around here. One of my few claims to fame is that Hitchens' Wikipedia page had, for many years, one of the photos I took of him. I miss the man.

[–]sofakinghuge 47 ポイント48 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Or George Carlin. Man would have had a field day with the election alone.

[–]spaceboy7a 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Can i throw Carl Sagan in here too. I miss Carl :(

[–]snorch 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I don't think George would have had anything new to say about it, really. Just the same things he'd been saying for years... Trevor's doing an alright job, but I miss Jon Stewart more than ever.

[–][deleted] 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

The treason thickens.

We need to lock all of these people up and Republicans must lose in a monumental landslide in 2018.

[–]neisnm 42 ポイント43 ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Nothing to see here, just a coincidence." - pol/billies

[–]borntorunathon 38 ポイント39 ポイント  (3子コメント)

King and Spalding a major international law firm with over 800 attorneys. It's completely possible that he's never worked on any projects that involve that client. Or maybe he has, I don't know. But unless you find out that this was his client, it's not in any way significant.

I'm all for being critical of Trump's nominees, but this is such a non issue in the legal community and I see it come up in these threads way too often.

[–]JonnyGalt 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Thank you! I strongly dislike trump but this post made it seem like wray worked for some 15 person boutique firm and personally connected the Russians and Christie. Pretty much any firm King and Spalding size will have large international corporate clients.

[–]Taxonomyoftaxes 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Wray also tried investigated Enron and and crooked healthcare companies as a member of the justice department. You guys are complaining about one of the fee reasonable picks Trump has ever made. The guy worked with Comey and is a well respected lawyer. He could have picked fucking Giuliani or some other stooge.

[–]Melchiah_III 439 ポイント440 ポイント  (4子コメント)

I miss the good old days when I didn't know who the FBI director was. Make politics boring again!

[–]Metabro 2228 ポイント2229 ポイント  (91子コメント)

Nixon was shrewd enough to resign rather than sticking around forever and implicating more and more people.

Christopher A. Wray is now suspect. As Trump brings people in, he basically is pointing a finger and saying, "Investigate this person, too."

[–]MiataCory 203 ポイント204 ポイント  (33子コメント)

"Investigate this person, too."

"Also, please forget that last year he represented Russia's state-owned oil company"

http://www.kslaw.com/library/newsletters/EnergyNewsletter/2013/February/article2.html

His bio on their site: http://www.kslaw.com/people/Christopher-Wray

Their Moscow offices: http://www.kslaw.com/offices/Moscow

You can't make this shit up!

[–]kazneus 47 ポイント48 ポイント  (1子コメント)

holy fuck he repped rosneft? good lord that's too juicy.

[–]jiaxingseng 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (19子コメント)

Where does it say he represented Rosneft?

[–]Banana-balls 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (13子コメント)

....

Russia has 1 state owned oil company. Its rosneft.

[–]jiaxingseng 49 ポイント50 ポイント  (11子コメント)

No... the law firm he worked for, which is a top level international law firm with 800 employees, represented Rosneft. I'm pretty sure Rosneft also had dealings with, say, Goldman Sachs... and lots of officials in Obama and Trump's administration comes from there too.

Where does it say Wray represented Rosneft?

(Also, pretty sure Russia has more than 1 state owned oil companies, but that's neither here nor there)

[–][deleted] 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Even adding more to the overwhelming evidence that they colluded with Russia to hack the election. The only option we really need to follow if we want the nation to regain confidence in our election system is to hold another election. The Republicans cannot be allowed to just remove Trump and put in Pence, they need to lose across the board.

[–]doughboy666 56 ポイント57 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Maybe this was his strategy for draining the swamp, swim to the middle holding onto as many people as you can, and then pull the plug.

[–]Shmyt 36 ポイント37 ポイント  (0子コメント)

If his family didn't also seem evil, and he wasn't still keen on killing the planet, I'd think this would be the part of the movie where donald reveals he's is dying and is trying to take everyone with him.

[–]-p_d- 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (0子コメント)

'Being shrewd' is the last thing Donald could be accused of.

[–]Oscar--Goldman 667 ポイント668 ポイント  (24子コメント)

Is anyone really surprised he fired Comey, and replaced him with someone like this?

[–]ChrisWithWings 1266 ポイント1267 ポイント  (73子コメント)

I used to think the FBI was this stone-cold, infallible, intelligence organization. Now it seems like a joke.

I feel bad for the countless people who have made their careers in the Bureau only to have a paranoid Cheeto set their ship on fire.

[–]barawo33[S] 375 ポイント376 ポイント  (19子コメント)

Agreed. I have a feeling a glorified personal attorney is not going to help it either.

[–][deleted] 137 ポイント138 ポイント  (11子コメント)

Trump has corrupted and destroyed everything he has touched.

This is not okay. We need to get out in mass protests and stop this nomination.

[–]baudrillard_is_fake 83 ポイント84 ポイント  (8子コメント)

The only way he's going to get the boot is if Dems take back a majority.

Republicans don't care about democracy or the nation. They care about profits and the families of the political and economic elite.

[–]DeadlyDuck121 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Just under a year and a half to go! Hopefully he doesn't pass some executive order that lets congress stay as long as they like. Republicans would probably let that happen too.

[–]Caedus 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (5子コメント)

That's unfair. Wray was the Assistant AG for the Criminal Divisions in Bush 43's administration before that. He has some credentials.

[–]starlit84 133 ポイント134 ポイント  (10子コメント)

The FBI is nowhere close to being incorruptible. Just look at their history. All those Intelligence agencies are just people who are influenced by whatever.

[–]Dunlocke 37 ポイント38 ポイント  (7子コメント)

Nothing is incorruptible, but how many government agencies would you consider held to a higher standard of incorruptibility?

[–]vladtheimpatient 63 ポイント64 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Science ones like NASA and the EPA seem like they should be harder to corrupt, but the few decades since November have shown that anything is possible.

[–]Dunlocke 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

There's certainly less reason to corrupt those, but if you asked me to try, I'd rather attempt to do so with one of those agencies, as pure as their motives are.

[–]Manai 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (4子コメント)

But that letter they sent MLK...

But the files on US celebs..

BUT. HER. EMAILS.

[–]ReyRey5280 38 ポイント39 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yep, same for the office of the president. House of Cards this season was seriously ruined for me by how much of a joke Trump has made the office seem. He's got access to all these incredible resources; the deepest secrets in the American government, the strongest arm of intel in the entire world, control of all three branches of government to make meaningful change.... and this asshole is having rallies, pushing the political divide, lying about crowd sizes, and handshake arm wrestling world leaders, ffs

[–]zelmerszoetrop 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I'm thinking Comey's testimony may save the Bureau's reputation.

[–]ProphetOfBrawndo 255 ポイント256 ポイント  (9子コメント)

a man of impeccable credentials

Trump Translator: He agreed to the loyalty oath.

[–]pixelsandbacon 356 ポイント357 ポイント  (18子コメント)

I'm sure there are no political reasons behind this at all! In no way is this about russia, nope, no way! /s

[–]NihiloZero 213 ポイント214 ポイント  (6子コメント)

This isn't gonna be great for Christie if Wray is grilled mercilessly about Christie's scandals in New Jersey.

[–]CrossP 144 ポイント145 ポイント  (13子コメント)

It seems like the head of the FBI should be an FBI agent. Was that not a thing in the past? How is that ever not a thing?

[–]Spiralyst 95 ポイント96 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Next up, Trump annoints the CEO of KFC, Roger Eaton, as the new Surgeon General.

[–]NoxiousDogCloud 60 ポイント61 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Comey wasn't. A few of the FBI directors in the past were former special agents or law enforcement, but a lot of them were lawyers as well.

[–]dolmatastesgood 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (2子コメント)

At least Comey worked for DOJ for decades and more recently as deputy attorney general.

[–]NoxiousDogCloud 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Wray worked for the DOJ at one point (2001-2005), he was an assistant attorney general and worked under Comey. He ended up as the DAG in 2003. So it's not like the guy is totally unfit for the job.

It just seems like the optics of the nomination are pretty ... not good. it looks pretty not good.

[–]Desolation82 174 ポイント175 ポイント  (39子コメント)

Can I get an explanation? I live in the U.K. and I have no idea who Chris Christies or Christopher Wray is. Thanks!

[–]bloatedplutocrat 357 ポイント358 ポイント  (22子コメント)

-Chris Christie is the governor of the state of New Jersey (adjacent to New York and historically known for having a corrupt govt / mob ties).

-About two years ago during a re-election campaign the mayor of a city that has a major bridge going through it declined to endorse Christie for re-election.

-The major bridge faced an irregular huge backup in traffic that screwed alot of local commuters and potentially harmed people by delaying emergency traffic.

-Investigation and subsequent court case found two of Christie's top aides guilty for secretly ordering the bridge to have the traffic problems as revenge for the mayor not backing Christie.

edit Christie also in his first term was liked for being a more traditional republican of focusing on fixing budget issues and not a complete twatwaffle. His state suffered major damage in 2012 from a hurricane during election season and President Obama visited him to show support / give federal aid. There was a photo of Christie hugging Obama and thanking him for his help that the Republican party jumped on him for because their messaging was that Obama is terrible in every way/shape/form and nothing he does is right but Christie said "GTFO i'm here to help the people of New Jersey not the Republican party" and everyone was happy.

Then this bridge shit happens, Christie starts pushing for mainstream stupid republican laws like pig gestation crates that the state is overwhelmingly against (but not Iowa, the state that holds an important republican primary for his future presidential run), and generally goes from good politician to shitbag.

[–]NaeemTHM 132 ポイント133 ポイント  (4子コメント)

I was in Jersey during the hurricane and was so happy when Christie told other Republican's grow the fuck up about him hugging Obama. The Republicans were more concerned about how they looked than Jersey literally being destroyed. You know...the usual party over country stuff.

But Christie was so quick to burn all that good will. When he started getting serious about running for President, suddenly he couldn't give a shit about Jersey. And he fell right in line with the rest of the crazy right wingers saying stuff that we never heard him say before.

He's basically a laughing stock now. Dude threw his entire career away to be a Trump patsy.

[–]bloatedplutocrat 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (0子コメント)

The few silver linings (not worth it) of the Trump Presidency is people like Christie getting their comeuppance and fading into obscurity.

[–]Desolation82 39 ポイント40 ポイント  (6子コメント)

That's... slightly fucked up. I wonder how Trump chooses the head of the FBI. Tickets in a hat, maybe?

[–]GeoGoddess 25 ポイント26 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes. An aide writes on a slip of paper the name of every person who is willing to work with him and who wants the job and puts them into a MAGA hat. Trump pulls out the single piece of paper and manages to correctly spell impeccable while everybody reads it as impeachable. It's taking a long time to fill the hat for every job opening with even a single name.

[–]PolyNecropolis 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

More like "find me anyone who can make this investigation go away and they got the job."

[–]prncpl_vgna_no_rlatn 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

From the wiki:

According to the Fort Lee emergency medical services coordinator, traffic jams delayed paramedic response times, including a 9-1-1 call for Florence Genova, who subsequently died of cardiac arrest.[51][52] In January 2014, her daughter told The New York Times that she "wants to stay out of it. It's not political". She noted her mother's advanced age (91) and opined that "it was just her time".[53]

In at least one instance, emergency medical workers were forced to leave their ambulance and respond on foot because traffic congestion was so heavy.[54] Emergency responders were delayed nearly one hour in rendering assistance to a man experiencing chest pains.[55]

[–]AtomicFlx 53 ポイント54 ポイント  (10子コメント)

Chris Christie is the fat as a whale governor of New Jersey. He set up "construction" on one of the busiest bridges into NYC as punishment for a democratic mayor that didn't support him in an election. The construction was fake and it was simply to destroy traffic so people would get mad at the mayor.

Once this came to light, Wray was the whales attorney.

[–]nvanprooyen 51 ポイント52 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh, and a woman died as a result of this little stunt. She was having a heart attack and the paramedics took longer to get to her because of the traffic.

[–]fuckofakaboom 228 ポイント229 ポイント  (32子コメント)

How long till we find out Wray's birth name was Christoph Wraylovich?

[–]gingerbeardy 179 ポイント180 ポイント  (30子コメント)

He also represents Rosneft, the Russian national oil company alleged to have sold 19.5% shares to a Trump owned company.

[–]aq0437 42 ポイント43 ポイント  (11子コメント)

Was that ever proved? I was under the impression it was sold to an anonymous, untraceable third party. Which while the Steel Dosier heavily implicates Trump, I never saw any proof.

[–]daoogilymoogily 26 ポイント27 ポイント  (5子コメント)

I think there is some bread crumbs that lead to a Trump associate being the mystery man and he's just acting as a middle man at least until Trumps out of office.

[–]sparhawk817 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I mean alleged just means "so and so said this, and we haven't proved it wrong yet"

[–]asshair 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That would make him Serbian, not Russian. Please don't insult my people.

To be Russian he'd have to be, Kristof Wrajlov

[–]40kfreak 76 ポイント77 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Lmao I cant wait to see how the trumpets spin this one: "but he wasnt corrupt until 2005!"

[–]JudiciousF 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (3子コメント)

So they point to 2005 where he was unanimously confirmed to the DOJ by the entire senate as a point that any democratic backlash 12 years later would be flip flopping.

They actually point to some solid credentials for going after white collar crime, to be honest aside from the obvious conflict of interest, between representing Trump cronies and the Russian National Oil Company he seems like he'd be a decent choice.

But the most depressing bit is that they all think he's being hired to go after Clinton. They still haven't realized that Trump was lying to them to get votes and never had any intention of going after Clinton. It's unbelievable.

[–]Mrpopo9000 95 ポイント96 ポイント  (11子コメント)

Wtf is happening to my country, holy shit.

[–]Spiralyst 66 ポイント67 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Stupid desperate people thought an internet troll was a leader.

[–]forma_cristata 109 ポイント110 ポイント  (9子コメント)

Why does he believe he can save himself now? How dense is he?

[–]Captain_Lambkin 78 ポイント79 ポイント  (5子コメント)

...because as he has shown there are no penalties for how he behaves. He does and can do what ever he wants at zero risk to himself. He will leave office (unless he just decides to stay till he dies) hundreds of millions of dollars richer free of any risk of penalty.

[–]ArokLazarus 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Pretty much this. It sucks to see but he's received no punishment at all and is on the biggest soapbox he could possibly dream of. Even say he does get successfully impeached I guarantee that would be the extent of his punishment. He might leave office early but he won't lose money, and he won't go to prison. He'll leave richer and with people he personally appointed and on his side in various offices.

[–]Ayyyyy_thisguy 47 ポイント48 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I've seen a few theories that it's actually Trumps head keeping the moon in orbit

[–]stuckfix 76 ポイント77 ポイント  (4子コメント)

For those wondering, "impeccable credentials" is Trumpspeak for "has pledged loyalty to Donald." Although a pledge of loyalty from a treacherous snake like those Trump surrounds himself with is as likely to be honored as a Trump campaign promise. So not at all.

[–]mzking87 87 ポイント88 ポイント  (8子コメント)

This orange sob, just bluntly does what ever the fuck he wants, regardless how stupid, corrupt or guilty it makes him look. Just spitting in the face of every American citizen

[–]Captain_Lambkin 39 ポイント40 ポイント  (5子コメント)

All 45 has done is show how broken the US political system is. There are NO checks and balances. He has shown if you just ignore any of the rules in place, to create a working government, there is zero penalty. Even if he is impeached (he won't be) he will walk away unpunished hundreds of millions of dollars richer.

[–]PainTrainMD 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why does this idiot always use these superlatives

[–]borkthegee 198 ポイント199 ポイント  (8子コメント)

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[–]Nazgren 78 ポイント79 ポイント  (7子コメント)

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[–]LondonNoodles 49 ポイント50 ポイント  (4子コメント)

I find it insane that every news outlet mentions that Wray was in charge during the ENRON investigation, but none of them actually says the most interesting part :

During the Enron case, Christopher Wray was Assistant Attorney General under Attorney General...James Comey.

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/pressrel/press-releases/former-enron-chairman-and-chief-executive-officer-kenneth-l.-lay-charged-with-conspiracy-fraud-false-statements

Now guess which of the two saw his career skyrocket from the success in the Enron case, got all the praise from President Bush, and which one ended up working in the public sector without having his name mentioned in any case study or on any ticket?

I see allegations of conflict of interest, may well be the case, but in my opinion there could also be personal interest involved. Which is far more dangerous.

[–]iTellUeveryting 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Can you ELI5 what you're talking about here? I've read your comment twice and m not getting what you're insinuating.

[–]Taxonomyoftaxes 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (0子コメント)

He's insinuating that Wray will be biased against Comey because Comey had a more succesful career after they both left the Department of Justice. Somehow he believes this is almost as bad as a conflict of interest.

[–]SallyYatesTheHero 50 ポイント51 ポイント  (41子コメント)

Life long Dem, hate Trump with a passion. I like that guy. Trump is an idiot for picking him. Don't waste energy fighting a good candidate. Pelosi will support him. This man s the guy who took Enron down.

[–]TybrosionMohito 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (15子コメント)

It's a goddamn shame I have to scroll through 50 "omg Trump is ruining the country, this is so corrupt" comments before I can actually see any discussion about who this guy actually is.

For fuck's sake people, every nomination is not the end of the Republic.

[–]SallyYatesTheHero 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (12子コメント)

Been trying but it's tough. Got called a few insults and a Trump supporter. About to give up. It's tough.

[–]iamtheCircus 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (6子コメント)

But acting hysterical over everything is what we do...

[–]slightlyposhbiscuit 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I read that as "a man of impeachable credentials" and it still made sense.

[–]Drayzen 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Breaking. Commander in Cheetoh nominates Lawyer that worked for firm that represents Rosneft.

[–]alittlenonsense 31 ポイント32 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Drain the swamp, replace with full-on shit.

[–]EHP42 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Swamps are useful ecosystems for various reasons. Can't have that. Let's replace with open air raw sewage.

[–]kingguy459 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

By this point it's a landfill filled with dirt water and nuclear waste and is masquerading as a swamp.

[–]Dwight_kills_her_cat 52 ポイント53 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Holy hell.

This sub is just as fact bending as the Donald sometimes.

As a CPA, this man is pretty well respected. Hes the lawyer that took down Enron and a few other fraud cases that other firms wouldn't take.

[–]moral_thermometer 24 ポイント25 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I agree with your point, but in a whole wide world of potential candidates, maybe don't pick the personal lawyer of one of your bitches, and vet candidates for any Russian ties at all. How hard can that be? Also, let's be real. He defended Christie against Bridgegate, which is certainly a lawyer's job but again...

At the very least it's a sign of the INCREDIBLY lazy, Trump-centered nomination process. Every one of them feels like "I met this guy/gal at a golf course once and let me tell you folks, he/she is the greatest."

[–]felipeleonam 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

This whole administration would be in a much better place if they just had a better hiring process. Seriously, go use indeed or ZipRecruiter and they would probably have better results.

[–]jlevnhv 20 ポイント21 ポイント  (2子コメント)

This is sort of a misrepresentation of Wray. As a lawyer, he's probably represented lots of people. Maybe even bad people. That's what being a lawyer is.

He's also:

  • a former federal prosecutor
  • former assistant attorney general overseeing the criminal division under President George W. Bush
  • seasoned criminal lawyer who bonded with Mr. Christie when both were young attorneys in the Justice Department

So yeah, he is friends with Christie and represented him, but reducing him to that is just another form of propaganda. I think we should try harder than this.

[–]regeya 25 ポイント26 ポイント  (20子コメント)

C'mon guys. He also led the Enron Task Force. Once in a while The Donald accidentally does something that isn't completely terrible...

[–]KingJake69 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Comey himself approved of this pick. Quit over reacting

[–]hendriks 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Trump whitehouse, where the bizarre goes to become the new normal.

[–]Dim_Innuendo 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

"Impeccable credentials," meaning, "unquestioned loyalty to me, willingness to defy the law, the Constitution, and reality if I tell him to."

[–][deleted] 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (3子コメント)

OK quick tell us everything wrong this person has done and represents.

[–]Anosognosia 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (0子コメント)

His law firm literally represents Russian Oil.

[–]AgentMV 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (7子コメント)

Non-American here.

How can someone with no law enforcement credentials be even considered to be the head of your country's top law enforcement agency?? I guess in America you don't need any experience to get the job you're applying for? What's wrong with you guys??

[–]jiaxingseng 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (3子コメント)

He was head of U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division for 3 years. I don't know of other experience he has right now.

[–]SgtCheesepuffs 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm very confused as to why this Wray guy is bad.