Days after the Justice Department indicted James Comey, President Donald Trump has suggested that another former FBI director, Christopher Wray, could come under investigation.Trump on Saturday railed against Wray, whom Trump nominated in 2017 to replace Comey, claiming in a Truth Social post that he had covered up the involvement of FBI agents “acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists” in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump has repeated the unfounded claim that the FBI incited the Capitol riot which occurred after Trump rallied thousands of his supporters over false claims that the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won, had been stolen.[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]“I want to know who each and every one of these so-called ‘Agents’ are, and what they were up to on that now ‘Historic’ Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of ‘Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians’ to them!” Trump posted.Trump’s comments come as his Administration has launched several investigations into his perceived political adversaries, including Comey last week. Earlier this month, Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department to more aggressively investigate his foes. And in July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined claims of criminal wrongdoing against former President Barack Obama and others, whom Trump accused of “treason.” Critics have sounded the alarm that Trump is weaponizing the DOJ to persecute his opponents and eroding the department’s independence.“I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that,” Trump told NBC on Sunday when asked if the Justice Department is investigating Wray. He added that Wray “did a terrible job and we just found out about it.”“I think a lot of his service was very inappropriate,” Trump told NBC. “But we haven’t gone beyond that. Don’t forget, we just found out about all of these FBI agents being there.”Here’s what to know.Trump pushes claim of ‘274 FBI’ instigators at Jan. 6 ‘Hoax’Trump claimed on Truth Social that “the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘Law Enforcement Officials.’”Last week, conservative media outlet Blaze Media, citing an unnamed congressional source, reported that the FBI had “embedded” 274 plainclothes agents in Jan. 6 crowds. The report contradicts previous findings from the Justice Department and reporting from other news outlets.A December 2024 report from the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General found “no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6.” The report did find that 26 FBI informants were in Washington, D.C., that day for election-related protests.A former senior FBI official who is familiar with the FBI’s actions on Jan. 6 told NBC that the Blaze article was “completely and utterly untrue,” adding, “I know of no agents who were authorized to be in the crowds observing the constitutionally protected rights of citizens on Jan. 6.”FBI Director Kash Patel, who has recently come under fire for his handling of the investigation into convicted sex offender and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, said that there were FBI agents at the scene to manage the crowds.“274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan 6 against FBI standards. That failure was on corrupt leadership. Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out,” Patel posted on X on Saturday.He added in a Saturday interview with Fox News that “agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police—something that goes against FBI standards.” Patel has previously made false claims, including related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.Democratic lawmakers have decried the claims of FBI involvement and accused the President of pushing Jan. 6 falsehoods.“Donald Trump is lying to the American people about the events of January 6,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on MSNBC on Saturday. “He can’t justify the fact that he helped to incite a mob of violent individuals who attacked the Capitol as part of an effort to try to reverse and undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.”Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who led a bipartisan investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, called Trump’s allegations “appalling.”The agents “were brought in because we needed help,” she told CBS on Sunday. “In fact, they were called in when there was such a delay in bringing in the military to assist in what was essentially an insurrection where over 100 police officers were injured or maimed because of this criminal activity at the Capitol.”Latest Justice Department investigation into a political opponentTrump’s ostensible warning to Wray comes just days after a federal grand jury indicted Comey for allegedly obstructing a congressional proceeding and making a false statement to Congress. Prosecutors alleged that Comey misled the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020 when he testified that he had not authorized a leak to the media of information relating to the 2016 FBI probe into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election. Comey has denied the charges.“Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake,” Trump posted.Trump nominated Wray to serve as director of the FBI in 2017 during his first presidential term, after Trump fired Comey. But Trump has blamed Wray’s appointment on former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and former adviser to Trump.“For those who are interested, and there aren’t many of you, Christopher Wray was recommended to me by Sloppy Chris Christie when Chris was in my ‘good graces’ — which was a very long time ago!” he said in another post.Wray resigned after Trump announced his plan to nominate Patel for the role, three years ahead of his 10-year term.“No matter what’s happening out there, in here, we’ve got to stay committed to doing our work the right way every time, with professionalism, with rigor, with integrity,” Wray said in his farewell address in January. “That means following the facts wherever they lead, no matter who likes it or doesn’t—because trust me, if there’s anything I’ve learned in this job, there’s always someone who doesn’t like you.”Trump himself has repeatedly claimed to be a victim of political persecution, pointing to efforts to impeach him during his first term in office and indictments related to alleged interference in the 2020 election and mishandling of classified information.In a since-deleted post imploring Bondi to ratchet up efforts to prosecute his political opponents, he wrote, “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”Trump has in recent months instructed the Justice Department to prosecute Comey as well as Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and New York Attorney General Leticia James. Federal prosecutor Erik Siebert, facing pressure from Trump, resigned last week after reportedly telling DOJ officials that their investigations had not found sufficient evidence to prosecute James. Trump has also sought to remake independent agencies including by firing Fed official Lisa Cook over alleged misconduct and the only two Democratic commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission.Critics have raised concerns that the Justice Department is becoming a political tool for Trump and is losing its independence.Trump “is weaponizing the Justice Department,” Klobuchar told CBS, calling the indictment of Comey a “vengeance prosecution” and “not about the law.”“He’s turning it into an instrument that goes after his enemies, whether they’re guilty or not,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN on Sunday. “This is the path to a dictatorship.”Ejaz Baluch, a former department attorney, told Reuters earlier this month, “Politics seems to be the main animating factor about who works in the [Civil Rights] division, and which cases are brought and which cases are dismissed.”“The mission of the Department of Justice is to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights,” a DOJ spokesperson told Reuters. “Every day we are working hard to restore trust in the institution. In the previous administration, the Department of Justice exhibited an abuse of prosecutorial power.”On Sunday, Vice President J.D. Vance denied on Fox News that the Comey indictment was politically motivated and promised more prosecutions. “There’s certainly going to be more indictments coming over the next three and a half years of the Trump Administration,” he said. “We’re always going to let the law drive this stuff and the facts of the case, and not political motivations, which frankly, makes us so much different from the Biden Administration.”