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President Trump announced on Twitter this morning that he intends to nominate Christopher A. Wray as director of the FBI. The decision comes one day before former FBI director James Comey is set to testify in a hearing before the Senate on whether the president pressured him to end investigation into the administration’s ties to Russia. Wray, is a former assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush, and was also a former prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Recently Wray represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) in his involvement in the Bridgegate scandal.
