Trump suggests Justice Department may investigate ex-FBI director Wray

US President Donald Trump has claimed that the Justice Department may be investigating former FBI Director Christopher Wray, accusing him of “inappropriate” conduct and tying him to allegations about the January 6 Capitol riot.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News on September 28, Trump said, “I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that,” when asked if Wray was under investigation.

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

The comments refer to an unsubstantiated claim Trump posted on Truth Social, alleging the FBI “secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax.”

Trump also claimed on September 27 that the agents were “probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists” and said Wray “has some major explaining to do.”

While conservative outlet Blaze Media reported last week that “FBI had 274 plainclothes agents embedded in Jan. 6 crowds, congressional source says."

A December report from the Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence of undercover FBI officers participating in or inciting the Capitol riot.

On September 27, FBI Director Kash Patel appeared to contradict Trump’s claims, stating agents were deployed only “after the riot was declared by Metro Police.”

“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,” Patel wrote in a since-deleted post on X.

He reiterated on Fox News that agents were there for crowd control.

A former senior FBI official dismissed the Blaze Media report as “completely and utterly untrue,” saying, “I know of no agents who were authorized to be in the crowds observing the constitutionally protected rights of citizens on Jan. 6th.”

By Sabina Mammadli