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Waiting the wings of Congress are the upcoming U.S. Senate confirmation hearings of FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray for a 10-year term as leader of America’s top law enforcement agency — the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

This subject is not being discussed much in the media with all of their preoccupation with downgrading President Donald Trump in any way possible, but this new FBI director may be just the thing to quiet down the bogus Russian connections with Trump Campaign 2016 now under investigation by the FBI.

On the first day Wray walks through the front door of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington he has to face some competition in Special Counsel Robert Mueller, 72, a former 12-year FBI director, who was appointed to take over the FBI’s on-going Russia-Trump campaign investigation after President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey in May. Not much is known about the status of Mueller’s investigation other than media reports about the lawyers Mueller is bringing to his investigative team.

Wray’s credentials to be FBI director are high indeed: As a former high-level U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor, he specialized in white-collar crime. He’s well-liked and respected throughout the DOJ and the greater law enforcement community. Wray accepted President Trump’s appointment and if confirmed, he would leave his private law practice and return to government work.

Mueller, upon Wray’s confirmation, should brief the new FBI director on every aspect of his work as Special Counsel with his probe into any unlawful collusion between Trump campaign officials and suspected Russian meddling in the last election. He should then step away voluntarily and turn the whole matter over to new FBI Director Wray. That’s what should happen, but will it? Mueller should return to his private life in retirement and say goodbye to this Russia probe if for no other reason to show trust and respect for the new guy and let him do his job. Wray needs to oversee all of the FBI, not just some of it – just like Comey and Mueller did before him.

U.S. Senate Democrats, during the up-coming confirmation hearings, are sure to grill Wray and try to discredit him in any way they can, but it’s up to Republican unity to get Wray confirmed so the FBI can return to normal doing what they do best – enforcing the laws of the land equally with no person above the law.

Congressional Democrats, California-type liberals and mainstream media are in too deep in their continuing hatred of President Trump to stop now. There is a group mentality going on here that would defy explanation from even the smartest psychiatrist. They cannot get out of the hole they have dug for themselves. For them to appear to work with this president would be to surrender the “resist” movement, accept the reality of President Trump and move on for the good of the country on healthcare and tax reform, infrastructure and jobs, but they won’t.

Former long-time U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), 70, who is now a political analyst and contributor to FOX News, said this recently about the current atmosphere on Capitol Hill.

“People want political parties to be focused on America’s economic needs, jobs, wages, healthcare, education, retirement security and peace – and they want American politicians to be constructive, not destructive.”

That quicksand in the District of Columbia swamp is slowing sucking the Democrats and their liberal ways down into the muck of their own making.