FBI Director Christopher Wray was busy this past week in the hot seat at several Congressional hearings.
Under grilling by representative Markwayne Mullin at a House Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Wray finally admitted Antifa not only exists but is organized, something he has denied in the past. Wray was also called out for the way the FBI has harshly cracked down on 6 January DC protesters vs. kid-glove treatment of Antifa and BLM.
Some 400 DC protesters remain jailed as a result of the protests over irregularities and widespread indications of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Meanwhile, hundreds of violent Antifa and BLM protesters have served little or no jail time received “deferred resolution agreements,” served only community service, and/or avoided criminal records.
Wray did plenty of dissembling during the questioning. He downplayed Antifa as operating via small, localized “nodes,” and tried to argue the FBI was treating their violence seriously, despite Mullin’s evidence to the contrary.
WRAY: I believe we the FBI are taking a consistent approach to both situations–
MULLIN: I don’t buy that. You don’t even know how many federal officers [have been injured]. You said, this is your quote, 2nd of March, “We focus on acts of violence and violations of federal law, and when we see those, when we see those, we bring to bear the full weight of our resources, our experiences, and our partnerships.” Are you bringing your full resources and partnerships against those organizations that support finance, facilitate against the White House when it was stormed?
MULLIN: We have a number of investigations related to the violence that occurred over the course of the summer. I think that’s what you’re referring to–
MULLIN: I’m just specifically talking about the White House. I mean, there were… it was a big deal. There were 67 Secret Service officers injured during the leftwing assault. And there were assaults that happened simultaneously with Antifa throughout different cities. Are you bringing the full weight to that?
WRAY: We mobilized scores and scores of personnel, in response to the activities during the period you described, and I was personally on scene in DC at the Washington Field Command post way into the night, night after night during that–
MULLIN: Know that Antifa was behind that, yet you said in a statement that Antifa does not exist as a national organization. Are you trying to explain away Antifa in the definition or do you believe Antifa actually exists?
WRAY: No sir. Antifa is a real thing and is not a fiction, and–
MULLIN: Then why did you say, and this is your quote, that “Antifa does not exist as a national organization.” That’s your quote.
WRAY: I don’t believe that’s a direct quote from me. But what I can tell you–
MULLIN: Yes sir. It actually is.
WRAY: Sire what I can tell you is we have seen adherents to the Antifa movement who organize at the practical level, locally, regionally, what you might call small nodes.
As the Conservative Treehouse website pointed out, Mullin’s questioning did miss a chance to point out the ties between Antifa, BLM, and 2020 fundraising for Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign:
“Many people have forgotten, and the media intentionally refused to take notice, that Joe Biden’s campaign was funded by donations to BLM. After reaching the BLM homepage on their website, which features a “Defund The Police” petition front and center, if a user chose to donate, they were rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue…”
ActBlue is the official fundraising arm of the Democrat Party.
(Wray/Mullin video on Rumble here.)
