It wasn't Wray who was dragging the FBI into the pol fray. Trump deemed Wray a deep state enemy for, among other things, permitting the FBI’s search of MAL *became part of the classified-docs case against him.
He decided (decades of precedent of keeping: FBI independent of pol influence) be damned—he’d fire Wray- replace him with Patel. Wray couldn’t stop him from defenestrating him for Patel *could've forced Trump to fire him.
Wray protected him, esp. after J6.
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