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A Louisiana congressman’s message to FBI Director Christopher Wray all but warned “don’t leave town” in setting the stage for accountability with the return of President-elect Donald Trump.

Having previously confronted the top G-man during multiple congressional hearings, specifically with his concerns about the details of Jan. 6, 2021, Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins (R) fired off a stern warning Saturday.

Referencing the commencement of Advent, the veteran and former law enforcement official made clear that Congress intended to be spending a lot of time with Wray in search of answers on the alleged weaponization of government.

“Mr. Wray,” began a post from Higgins on X. “Remain close to DC. Your presence will be commanded. Repeatedly.

“In this Holiest of seasons, as you box up your mementos of oppression, may visions of the thousands of American J6 families you’ve destroyed dance through your head,” added the Louisiana lawmaker. “Merry Christmas. Higgins out.”

As a member of the House Committees on Homeland Security and on Oversight and Accountability, Higgins had been among the members of the GOP pressing agencies for answers as to what was going on with career officials at the Department of Justice and the FBI.

During an appearance on “The Tucker Carlson Encounter” that marked the third anniversary of Jan. 6, the congressman had spoke to evidence that placed “well over 200” FBI assets at the U.S. Capitol and his questioning of Wray on the matter during a hearing.

“So when I asked Christopher Wray that question, and I already knew the answer, I had reviewed compelling evidence that the FBI had assets, human assets dressed as Trump supporters inside the Capitol prior to the doors being open and the masses allowed in. Now, I knew that the FBI was deeply involved,” he explained.

“I’d seen evidence, even at that time that the FBI had embedded themselves into various groups online across the country of Americans who were essentially voicing their concerns and airing their grievances with each other about COVID oppression,” he went on. “And those Americans were targeted by the FBI — almost universally Republicans and largely Trump supporters. But the FBI worked undercover to infiltrate those conversations and become a significant part of those individual Americans, uh, communications.”

In the wake of Trump’s victory, some criminal trails had already been postponed for Jan. 6 defendants as the GOP leader was expected to make pardons on a case-by-case basis. At the same time, the DOJ had been reportedly focusing on what they considered the “most egregious” offenses in an attempt to make a final string of arrests ahead of the new administration, adding to the speculation that their efforts thus far had been to make a political point.

As was the case with the president-elect’s initial nominee for U.S. Attorney General, now-former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R), Trump’s pick of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously asserted, “the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated, because the deep state, last term for President Trump, they were hiding in the shadows.”

Expecting treatment similar to the warning toward Wray, it had been reported that a number of current and former officials from the FBI and DOJ were lawyering up while insisting, “Everything we did was aboveboard.”

While that remained to be seen, and innocence was assumed until guilt was proven, both Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had set a sour tone amid the transition between administrations as they had rebuffed an invitation to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee the week before Thanksgiving.

Even Democratic lawmakers were stunned as committee chair Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan had stated, “In a shocking departure from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s longstanding tradition of transparency and oversight of the threats facing our nation, for the first time in more than 15 years, the Homeland Security Secretary and the FBI Director have refused to appear before the Committee to provide public testimony at our annual hearing on Threats to the Homeland.”

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