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Former Fed Prosecutor Warns: 'Matter of Time' Before Trump Fires Wray

Former Fed Prosecutor Warns: 'Matter of Time' Before Trump Fires Wray
Christopher Wray. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty)

By    |   Tuesday, 07 May 2019 03:38 PM EDT

It’s only “a matter of time” before President Donald Trump fires FBI Director Christopher Wray, a former federal prosecutor warned Tuesday.

The chilling prediction came during CNN’s “At This Hour With Kate Bolduan,” when Elliot Williams, who served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice during the Obama administration, responded to Wray’s break from Attorney General William Barr’s use of the term “spying” to characterize the investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

“It's just a matter of time before he's out, too,” Williams said of Wray. “Because it seems that individuals in the Justice Department at the highest levels who seem to state the facts and the law as they exist seem to not do well, as we saw with [former Attorney General] Jeff Sessions and on down, the White House counsel [Don McGahn] as well.”

Williams added that Barr “ought to have known what he was saying when he used the word ‘spying.’”

“That's a big word to use in congressional testimony,” he said. “As a prosecutor, as a former prosecutor, a current prosecutor, knowing full well what the connotations of the term spying are versus legally authorized surveillance, we're not talking about rats and godfather stuff here.”

“You're talking about courts having authorized this surveillance. It's a very imprecise word to use at best, and perhaps even worse than that.”

Williams said it’ll ultimately be up to the DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz who is looking into the surveillance question, to get to the bottom of it.

“He has a reputation of being an individual with a long record of honesty and fidelity to the law,” he said. 

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It's only "a matter of time" before President Donald Trump fires FBI Director Christopher Wray, a former federal prosecutor warned Tuesday.
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