{"id":108030,"date":"2024-12-01T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/gop-senator-praises-current-fbi-director-christopher-wray-calls-putin-a-tyrant\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:03:37","slug":"gop-senator-praises-current-fbi-director-christopher-wray-calls-putin-a-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/gop-senator-praises-current-fbi-director-christopher-wray-calls-putin-a-tyrant\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator praises current FBI Director Christopher Wray, calls Putin a &#8216;tyrant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-01\/Untitled%20design%20%2896%29.png\" alt><figcaption>Tom Williams-Pool\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Republican Sen. Mike Rounds emphasized his support for current FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom President-elect Donald Trump intends to fire and replace with the loyalist Kash Patel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the president picked a very good man to be the director of the FBI when he did that in his first term,\u201d Rounds told ABC &#8220;This Week&#8221; co-anchor Jonathan Karl about Wray. \u201cWhen we meet with him behind closed doors, I&#8217;ve had no objections to the way that he&#8217;s handled himself, and so I don&#8217;t have any complaints about the way that he&#8217;s done his job right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Rounds reiterated the president-elect\u2019s right to select his Cabinet and Trump&#8217;s selection of Patel is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn&#8217;t surprise me that he will pick people that he believes are very loyal to himself, and that&#8217;s been a part of the process,\u201d Rounds said. \u201cEvery president wants people that are loyal to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A staunch supporter of Ukraine, Rounds called Russian President Vladimir Putin a \u201ctyrant\u201d and suggested that negotiating with him might be futile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Mr. Putin is a tyrant. I think dealing with him is going to be extremely difficult,\u201d Rounds said, expressing hope for Trump to succeed but recognizing that this will be a challenge for \u201cany president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that you can\u2019t trust \u201ca guy that doesn&#8217;t honor their word,\u201d which he says Putin had done.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Williams-Pool\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Republican Sen. Mike Rounds emphasized his support for current FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom President-elect Donald Trump intends to fire and replace with the loyalist Kash Patel. \u201cI think the president picked a very good man to be the director of the FBI when he<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/gop-senator-praises-current-fbi-director-christopher-wray-calls-putin-a-tyrant\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}