Well, Wray is corrupt. He spent four years resisting Trump’s attempts to pressure him into falsely prosecuting Comey, Obama and Hunter Biden - among others. It was easier to do this if he didn’t piss off Trump by noticing and doing something about the crime wave his band of merry grifters were inflicting on Washington, America and the world at large.
The only way he could do that and sleep at night was to convince himself that all the bribery, blackmail and extortion wasn’t that bad. And he still can’t admit it was bad, because then he’d have to face the reality of what he did, and didn’t do, over the past four years.
That’s why he actually tried to deny that there was a clear cut relationship between Trump’s claims of election fraud and the January 6th insurrection.
Here’s where the FBI and DOJ are regarding Trump and his crimes.
It’s OK to tell your cronies that there’s something illegal you’d like to see done, to keep calling them and badgering them about how you’d like to see this illegal thing done, to fire them when the illegal thing isn’t done and immediately start badgering their replacement about how you’d like to see the illegal thing done.
Because ….Trump never ordered anyone to do the illegal thing! How dare you suggest he might be responsible!
But if you actually order your crony to do the illegal thing, including making backwards threats telling them they’ll be arrested if they don’t do the illegal thing and they still don’t do the illegal thing because they can’t, it’s literally something they lack the authority to do, no matter how much they want to……
Then it’s……But the illegal thing wasn’t done! Trump might have told them to do it but they didn’t! How can you blame Trump for something that didn’t happen!
Under the theories subscribed to by the FBI and DOJ, it’s not a crime to conspire to overthrow the government unless you actually succeed! Which I think is a highly dangerous position, but that’s just me, I guess.
I think, if the draft letter Jeffrey Clark sent to Jeffrey Rosen came from the White House, that’s the conspiracy to overthrow the government. A conspiracy doesn’t have to be complex or convoluted. People in the White House conspired with Clark, and possibly other people in the DOJ, to send an official DOJ letter to several state governments falsely telling them that they election was fraudulent and that they had the undisputed right (another lie) to toss out their states election results and submit their own electors.
I think that’s it. That’s all you need. That’s conspiring to overthrow the government, right there.
I’m reading the much quoted book I Alone Can Fix It. I bought it Sunday, because I was bored. I didn’t think it would be revelatory, as I’ve read both of the other recent, similar bestsellers and I follow the news closely.
But it was. It’s not the anecdotes or smoking gun moments, it’s the entire trajectory. What everyone has written off as chaos was the product of multiple plots to overturn the election- serious, if not well-executed, plots. Granted, there was no great overarching conspiracy, just a bunch of different conspiracies and conspirators, many of them really stupid, that kept getting in each other’s way, but there was conspiracy to overthrow the government.
And, according to the narrative of the book, Pence is a true coward - he searched far and wide for a serious legal opinion that would enable him to do what Trump wanted and was really disappointed that no one could find one.
No, not that one.