ichabod1 to TEXOKIE
Didn’t Christopher Wray come from King & Spalding too? Wonder who recommended him. Rod Rosenstein?
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Great catch! Yes, Wray DID come from King and Spalding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_A._Wray
“From 2005 to 2016 he was a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding.”
That is an excellent question about who recommended Wray to the FBI Directorship.
ichabod1 to TEXOKIE
Didn’t Christopher Wray come from King & Spalding too? Wonder who recommended him. Rod Rosenstein?
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texokie to ichabod1
Great catch! Yes, Wray DID come from King and Spalding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_A._Wray
“From 2005 to 2016 he was a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding.”
That is an excellent question about who recommended Wray to the FBI Directorship.
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texokie again to ichabod1
At the behest of another FReeQ I was encouraged to dig into that question and to look especially to see if a strong nexus between Dan Coats and Wray could be found. Did Coats recommend Wray?
After a bit of digging, this is what I came up with:
[I was unable to find an obvious nexus between Wray and Coats as our Fellow FReeQ suggests above.
However, to answer the question of who might have suggested Wray to Trump - maybe it was Chris Christie. Wray has some high powered derp connections. King and Spalding, for one, as we learned from Ichabod1 yesterday is a major toehold Wray has in derpdom. He was a lawyer for Christie during the Bridge Lane fiasco. Also he was a lawyer for the following, as I learned from:
“He’s [Wray] been a private attorney since, with the international firm King & Spalding and given legal advice to WELLS FARGO, JOHNSON & JOHNSON AND CREDIT SUISSE GROUP.”
[Those are seriously high powered derp infested organizations]
Trump tweeted out his announcement of the nomination of Wray on June 7, 2017. Could the timing fit for Christie to have been in a position to recommend Wray to Trump?
I think that the following lends credence to the possibility that Christie may have been in a position to put a good word into the favor of Wray in a timely manner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Christie
[Wray worked for Christie - Bridgegate. Christie worked for Trump’s election, and was on the transition team.]
“On June 30, 2015, he [Christie] announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. He suspended his candidacy on February 10, 2016, and soon after endorsed Donald Trump, who named him head of his TRANSITION PLANNING TEAM. Christie was strongly considered to be Trump’s running mate but was not chosen. Soon after the election, Christie was replaced on the transition team by Mike Pence, as were three of Christie’s associates.”
” He [CHRISTIE] chaired the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission in 2017 after being appointed by Trump. He has been offered numerous positions in Donald Trump’s cabinet, but ONLY CONSIDERED BEING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.”
[Boy, did we dodge a possible bullet on that one??? Christie as AG?... I trust SESSIONS! ...and now Barr! LOL!
The Opioid crisis is a very important issue to our POTUS. It would stand to reason that Christie would have had POTUS’ ear while he [Christie] was working to develop an approach to that crisis.
In light of the above, I wonder if Derp Christie was a possible main force behind Derp Wray’s nomination. But that does not mean Derp Coats - and others - didn’t also put in a favorable word.]