Republican Senator Complains that Republican FBI Director isn’t Republican Enough

A Republican Senator publicly accused FBI Director Christopher Wray, a lifelong Republican appointed by a Republican president, of being partisanly predisposed against Republicans in favor of Democrats.

Ron Johnson of Wisconsin made the accusation during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Tuesday, regarding the FBI’s investigation into President Biden’s civilian son, Hunter.

“The problem I have is I simply cannot trust what the FBI is providing me, and I don’t say that with any joy in my heart,” Johnson said. “That’s a travesty. The American people want to believe and have trust in the FBI. We want credibility, integrity restored to the institution, but Director Wray, you have not done that since assuming office, and I can go through a long laundry list of the reasons why that trust has been violated. I don’t have it right now.”

Wray objected to this characterization, “I see an FBI every day that conducts themselves with integrity and professionalism and selflessness and rigor. And I do not accept the characterization of our performance in this particular case.”

He concluded by declaring “the idea that I, as a Republican appointee and a lifelong Republican, am biased in the way that you are describing makes absolutely no sense.”

Appointed by Donald Trump—who referred to him as a man of “impeccable credentials”—in June 2017 to Republican acclaim, Wray eventually became a target of the GOP after Trump lost the election and Wray was allowed to continue in his post under President Biden.