FBI Director Chris Wray to resign following Trump nomination of Patel

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FBI Director Chris Wray to resign following Trump nomination of Patel

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FBI Director Christopher Wray will step down from his post early next year, he said on Wednesday (December 11), after Republican President-elect Donald Trump signaled his intent to fire the veteran official and replace him with firebrand Kash Patel.

His resignation makes him the second straight FBI director driven out by Trump, who during his first term in office fired Wray's predecessor James Comey, after souring on him over the FBI's investigations into alleged contacts between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.

Wray will leave before the end of the 10-year term that Trump himself appointed him to in 2017.

"In my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray, while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work," Wray told FBI employees in a town hall meeting.

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“This is not easy for me. I love this place. I love our mission and I love our people. But my focus is and always has been on us and on doing what's right for the FBI,” Wray added.

Trump and his hardline allies turned on Wray, and the FBI more generally, after agents conducted a court-approved search of Trump's Florida resort in 2022 to recover classified documents he had retained after leaving office.

That sparked one of two federal prosecutions Trump faced while out of power, neither of which went to trial. Trump denied wrongdoing and described all the cases against him as politically motivated. Federal prosecutors ended their efforts after his election, citing longstanding Justice Department policy not to prosecute a sitting president.

Trump's Republican allies joined him in alleging that the FBI had become politicized, though there is no evidence that Democratic President Joe Biden interfered with its investigative processes.

On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump called Wray's resignation "a great day for America."

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