FBI director calls white supremacist violence a ‘persistent, pervasive threat’

Published April 4, 2019 10:54pm ET



FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Thursday there is a “persistent, pervasive threat” posed by white supremacist violence.

During a hearing on the FBI budget request for fiscal 2020, Wray broke with President Trump, who last month said white nationalism is not a rising threat and called white nationalists “a small group of people.”

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