President Donald Trump suggested the Department of Justice should investigate his own former FBI chief over a conspiracy theory involving the deadly Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
Over the weekend, the president accused then-FBI Director Chris Wray of planting hundreds of FBI agents in the crowd to stoke violence, a claim so wild that even Trump’s current FBI director, Kash Patel, rejected it during an interview with Fox News.
The president nevertheless doubled down on the conspiracy when asked by NBC News whether Pam Bondi’s DOJ should investigate Wray.
“I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that,” Trump said.
Wray, he added, “did a terrible job and we just found out about it.”
“I think it’s very inappropriate what he, what he did. And I think