‘very inappropriate, what he did’

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Sunday he “would certainly imagine” that the Justice Department is scrutinizing former FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Over the weekend, Trump blasted Wray over a report alleging the FBI had plainclothes agents at the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol — something Director Kash Patel later clarified included agents who showed up after the riot began.

“I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that,” Trump told NBC News on the phone when asked if the DOJ is investigating Wray.

“I think it’s very inappropriate what he, what he did. And I think a lot of his service was very inappropriate,” he went on. “But we haven’t gone beyond that. Don’t forget, we just found out about all of these FBI agents being there.”

On Saturday, the president noted a report by The Blaze that cited a congressional source claiming that the FBI confirmed it had 274 plainclothes agents in the crowd on the day of the riot.

“Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray,” Trump raged in a Truth Social post.

The president further speculated — without evidence — that the agents there were “probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists,” but not as “Law Enforcement Officials.”

Soon after, Patel provided a clarification.

“274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan 6 against FBI standards. That failure was on corrupt leadership. Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out,” he explained on X.

The official Justice Department watchdog claimed “we found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6,” according to a report released last year.

That report had acknowledged that FBI informants were in the crowd.

Trump had tapped Wray to succeed James Comey as head of the bureau in 2017. The president has since complained that Wray had been recommended to him by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Wray resigned earlier this year, one day before Trump took office as the 47th president.

Last week, a grand jury handed up an indictment of Comey on charges of making false statements to Congress about the leaking of information regarding the bureau’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Critics of Wray have cited his past testimony to Congress about whether there were agents on scene at the Capitol riot. But Wray was also very careful with how he answered those questions, telling lawmakers in 2023, “I’m not sure there were undercover agents.”

“That’s a place where I want to be careful.”