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I’m sure that Wray is being touted as a hero.

Julie Kelly points out and asks.....

In 2019, without evidence, Wray’s FBI declared “white supremacist” domestic extremism a top national security threat and specifically warned of “assassination or kidnapping” attempts against elected officials. Three years later, however, the only plan to kidnap and/or assassinate a government leader has emerged from the FBI. The headlines nonetheless continue to bolster Wray’s unsubstantiated claims.

Or did Wray initiate the kidnapping caper in an act of revenge against Trump, who threatened to fire him in the spring of 2020, the same time the FBI undertook the Whitmer operation? When Trump told Barr in April 2020 that he wanted to replace Wray, Barr said he would resign in protest. (Unfortunately, Trump yielded and didn’t ask for Wray’s resignation.) The president repeatedly voiced his displeasure with Wray throughout 2020. Was this Wray’s way to inflict severe political damage on Trump in the homestretch of the 2020 election?

Wray also needs to explain why he promoted the head of the FBI’s Detroit field office, whose agents handled the main FBI informant and conducted the post-arrest investigation, right after the arrests in the Whitmer case were announced. Steven D’Antuono took the helm of the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office in mid-October 2020, several weeks before the protest on Capitol Hill. Did D’Antuono take his entrapment handiwork from Michigan to the nation’s capital to help fuel the alleged “insurrection?” How many of the same tactics in the Whitmer caper—infiltrating so-called militias with informants and undercover agents, creating encrypted group chats, plotting to “storm the Capitol,” suggesting the use of quick reaction forces—were also applied to the four-hour disturbance on January 6, 2021?