Wray would replace former FBI Director James Comey, whom the president fired a month ago, resulting in a political firestorm, because the FBI boss was in the midst of an investigation into Russia's relationship with members of Trump's administration, notably national-security adviser Michael Flynn.
Trump called Wray "a man of impeccable credentials" and offered no more information about the selection, except to end the tweet with "Details to follow".
Wray, now a partner at King & Spalding, led the Justice Department's Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005, and his firm biography says that he "helped lead the Department's efforts to address the wave of corporate fraud scandals and restore integrity to USA financial markets".
Comey, during his upcoming appearance before the Senate Intelligence committee, is expected to describe his encounters with Trump in the weeks before his May 9 firing.
Wray works in private practice for the King & Spalding law firm. He noted that Wray was confirmed unanimously by voice vote to lead the Justice Department's criminal division in 2003.
Wray came to the Department of Justice in 2001, first serving as associate deputy attorney general and rising to principal associate deputy attorney general in the same year.
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He reportedly met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein two weeks ago for an interview.
"I have the utmost confidence in Chris". The other was John S. Pistole, an Federal Bureau of Investigation veteran and former Transportation Security Administration director who is now the president of Anderson University.
Less than a year later, Wray was reportedly among the top officials at the Justice Department - along with embattled former FBI Director James Comey and now special counsel Robert Mueller - who planned to resign after White House officials tried to persuade a hospitalized Ashcroft to sign off on a warrantless domestic surveillance program in 2004.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons says Christopher Wray "is a serious and experienced attorney" - and Coons notes Wray's experience at the Justice Department during the George W. Bush administration.
The story cited as sources four current and former United States officials, who cited "phone records" and "intercepted calls" as sources. "Chris Wray is tough, qualified and principled", Republican Senator Ben Sasse, a frequent Trump critic, said in a statement.
Wray attended Yale University and Yale Law School, where he served as a research assistant to a well-known expert on law and religion: Professor Stephen Carter.
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