Senate confirms new FBI chief

WASHINGTON—The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI on Tuesday. President Donald Trump’s selection to head the bureau won broad bipartisan support after pledging to remain impartial to political pressure. Wray, 50, a former corporate lawyer and Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, told the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing no one at the White House ever asked him for a pledge of loyalty to the president. He said if Trump or anyone else had made that demand, he would have declined the offer because no one is above the law. The Judiciary Committee cleared him unanimously, and the full Senate confirmed him 92-5. All five no votes came from Democrats. Trump fired Wray’s predecessor, James Comey, because he said the FBI no longer had trust in its leader. Comey later testified on Capitol Hill that Trump lied about the reasons he let him go and the president repeatedly asked him for loyalty in exchange for keeping his job. The Justice Department’s probe into Russia’s alleged election meddling and possible ties to the Trump campaign will continue under the direction of Special Counsel Robert Mueller—outside of Wray’s purview.