Bringing today’s two Corner posts together, I am reminded that in March, Donald Trump told Sean Hannity that he nominated Christopher Wray to be director of the FBI because he was recommended by… former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
“I put Chris Wray in because I wanted to have somebody in there that everybody, including the other side, really wanted. It may not have been the right move. Let’s see. Time will tell, okay? But I wanted to have somebody in the FBI, because I’m an honorable guy, I’m an honest guy, I may have made a mistake. But I put somebody in that the other side, everybody agreed to. You know who recommended him to me? Chris Christie, okay. He recommended him. And that’s okay, I don’t mind that, I’ve taken Chris Christie’s recommendations before. And other people wanted Christopher Wray. And people from the other side wanted Christopher Wray.”
You would think that a president who believed a deep state was out to get him would be a little more wary about appointing an FBI director who was endorsed by “people from the other side.”