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Exclusive: Ex-intel chief urged Trump to fire FBI Director Wray in 2020

Ric Grenell recounts when FBI agents admitted their bosses ordered political redactions to documents.

​Former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell is warning that the FBI is facing a “real crisis” from partisan tampering with investigations, revealing he actually urged then-President Donald Trump to fire Director Chris Wray back in 2020 when such concerns first became obvious.

“I told President Trump we got to get rid of him,” Grenell said Monday in an interview with Just the News on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “[Wray] was terrible. First of all, he didn’t understand what was happening. He was so aloof to what was happening down below and had just a knee jerk reaction to everything just to protect the status quo.”

Grenell made the comments just hours before Trump announced Monday the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home and office in Florida, cracking a safe and removing documents in an apparent probe into suspected missing classified documents.

Grenell, who also served as U.S. ambassador to Germany, said the reasons he urged Wray’s dismissal two years ago were rooted in his inability to see politics ruining the storied law enforcement agency,

“He’s a creature of the FBI,” Grenell said. “And he views everything as a PR exercise. Don’t criticize the FBI. Don’t talk about any failures at the FBI because he loves the brand. And it was a brand exercise.”

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