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HipChick

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Fri Aug 4, 2017, 10:45 PM Aug 2017

Trump advisers were blindsided by tweet nomination of Chris Wray for FBI director ..

Lazy President was tired of searching of a nominee, so he decided to just twitter it out...



For example, advisers believed for days that Trump was likely to pick John Pistole as FBI director. Inside the administration, three officials said, there was little initial support for Christopher Wray, the former FBI official who was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s attorney in the bridge-closing controversy. “No one really was pushing for Wray,” one senior administration official said.

After talking extensively with Christie, who sold Trump on the former FBI official’s bona fides as a lawyer, Trump decided to go with Wray without telling others on staff, advisers said. White House officials waking up to the tweet were startled, and hurriedly wrote a news release to correspond to it. Much of the president’s inner circle knew little about Wray. Trump was simply tired of the search, these people said.

https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/340377/trump-advisers-were-blindsided-by-tweet-nomination-of-chris-wray-for-fbi-director/

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Trump advisers were blindsided by tweet nomination of Chris Wray for FBI director .. (Original Post) HipChick Aug 2017 OP
Geez. Just wait until he tweets out a declaration of war on North Korea. tanyev Aug 2017 #1
just a lazy man with a lazy mind Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #2
He has the attention span of a fruit fly NastyRiffraff Aug 2017 #3
Noone remembers Wray , Commy , Mueller worked together for few years Kathy M Aug 2017 #4
Well, we are "simply tired of" tRump ProudLib72 Aug 2017 #5
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