What is Trump’s excuse for Christopher Wray and the FBI?

Former President Donald Trump and his team are on edge about the candidacy of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis because DeSantis exposes several of Trump’s failures. You need to look no further than the current state of the FBI.

DeSantis launched his campaign on Wednesday and promised that, if elected, he would fire FBI Director Christopher Wray on his first day on the job. Wray has continued to frustrate House Republicans as he has ducked their inquiries into abuses by his agency. He also certainly should be fired: As my colleague Quin Hillyer wrote, Wray’s actions can be described as “high-handed, leftist-protecting, corruption-enabling,” and regularly erring to “favor or protect political leftward interests.”

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Trump’s campaign then pulled up a tweet from DeSantis when Wray was nominated, describing Wray as “talented, capable & highly respected.” That was 2017, when DeSantis was in the House of Representatives. As it turns out, DeSantis and many other conservatives proved to be wrong. In hindsight, such praise of Wray may seem to be embarrassing.

Do you know what is even more embarrassing in hindsight? Nominating Wray in the first place. And who was it that made the determination that Wray should be the guy to lead the FBI? Who was the president in 2017 who made the decision to nominate him? Why, of course, it was Donald Trump. In fact, DeSantis’s praise of Wray was in direct response to Trump’s tweet announcing his nomination.

Trump’s lousy record on key appointments doesn’t stop there. If anything, Wray might be Trump’s least unforgivable appointment mistake. Trump was responsible for putting Dr. Anthony Fauci front and center during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was Fauci and Trump’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that urged lockdowns, including the closures of schools. Trump’s pick for surgeon general is also a COVID hysteric, tweeting that you should still be concerned about the pandemic as of last week.

On top of it all, Trump did nothing to address the abuses perpetrated by intelligence agencies. He only came up with a grand plan to “shatter the deep state” two years after he left office. Trump could have simply been wrong about Wray, as most conservatives were in 2017, but he was talking about the threat of the “deep state” two months into his term and yet left it still in full power.

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What is the excuse there?

The corruption in the FBI and Wray’s enabling of it lie at Trump’s feet. So, too, do the lockdowns and school closures that his administration encouraged, to the point that Trump himself shamed Georgia for reopening too early. Those are his failures for which he, not DeSantis or anyone else in the GOP field, needs to answer.