CHRIS WRAY/FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was conspicuously absent from the installation ceremony of his handpicked new FBI director Thursday [9-28-17] because the bureau is involved in the special counsel investigation into whether Trump associates colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, a White House official said.
By avoiding the high-profile event for former Justice Department lawyer Christopher Wray — who assumed the director’s post upon being sworn in on Aug. 2 — Trump broke an informal protocol, in which presidents have overseen the largely ceremonial occasion.
An FBI official confirmed that Trump was invited, and that other recent presidents have been invited to, and attended, similar events. A notable exception was George W. Bush, who didn’t attend a ceremony for his FBI chief, Robert Mueller III, in 2001 because there wasn’t one. It was canceled, the White House official said, because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which occurred a week after Mueller started…
For obvious reasons, no one attending was surprised that Comey and Mueller were not present, even though informal FBI protocol has been for former directors to attend.”
-Josh Meyer, “Trump skips ceremony for FBI director amid Russia investigation,” Politico, Sept. 28, 2017 09:06pm