(Congress Report) – New reports indicate that current FBI Director Christopher Wray is making preparations to resign from his position ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking office in January. This is obviously a pre-emptive move because Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be Wray’s replacement. Due to the fact that Wray helped Attorney General Merrick Garland transform the bureau and the Justice Department into a political weapon against the president-elect, it’s a guarantee he would be removed from the spot.
The swamp is now draining itself, ladies and gentlemen.
And this all comes as Wray himself has three years left in his 10-year appointment as the FBI’s top dog. Wray, who was actually nominated for the job by Trump during his first term, replaced the extremely toxic James Comey. He did next to nothing to improve the general view of the agency among the American people. In fact, he may have made it worse, with the way the FBI treated those tossed in jail due to the Jan. 6 debacle and the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
However, as per writer C. Douglas Golden with The Western Journal, reports are emerging that Wray isn’t going down without a fight.
“Days after Trump announced Kash Patel as his nominee for FBI director and hours after a blistering 11-page Monday letter from incoming Senate Judiciary Chair Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, reports indicate that Wray is preparing to leave either before or when Donald Trump takes office for the second time,” Golden wrote for the publication.
“He’s going to be gone at the inauguration — on or before the inauguration,” a source divulged to The Washington Times.
“Mr. Wray is calling it quits because he doesn’t want to get fired by President-elect Donald Trump, according to sources inside the bureau who are familiar with the director’s thinking,” the outlet went on to disclose. “Following Mr. Wray’s departure, Deputy Director Paul Abbate will become acting director and appoint an acting deputy director. Mr. Abbate’s original plan was to stay until May or June, so he could help with the transition to a new FBI director.”
Patel, like many of Trump’s cabinet picks, will have to be confirmed by the Senate. More than a few individuals have called this choice one of the most difficult for the current administration to get pushed through the confirmation process.
However, a letter penned by Grassley, which slams Wray for the poor job he did as the director of the FBI for the six years he’s occupied the office, makes it crystal clear that the Republican Party most definitely wanted someone else for the job and weren’t going to do anything to try and convince the president-elect not to fire the director.
Among the many “failures” Grassley cited in the letter to Wray were the several acts that he says were politically motivated against both Trump and the GOP.
“The Senate confirmed you to your current position in hopes you’d bring needed change to the FBI after the politicization and scandal presided over by your predecessor, Director James Comey. While I sincerely congratulated you on your nomination, I reminded you that an FBI Director’s ten-year term is a ceiling, not a floor, and laid down my expectations for your service,” Grassley stated in the letter. “These included foremost the prompt and thorough compliance with congressional oversight requests and the protection of whistleblowers, whom I’ve spent my career defending. As we stand at the threshold of a new Congress and a new administration, with seven years of water under the bridge, you’ve failed in these fundamental duties as director.”
“Even President Biden, who denied weaponizing his administration against President-elect Trump, has finally admitted that political bias has indeed infected law enforcement,” he explained further. “These failures are serious enough and their pattern widespread enough to have shattered my confidence in your leadership and the confidence and hope many others in Congress placed in you. Rather than turn over a new leaf at the FBI, you’ve continued to read from the old playbook of weaponization, double standards, and a relentless game of hide-and-seek with the Congress.”
Talking about the raid on the president-elect’s Florida estate, Grassley said, “This raid occurred despite serious questions about the need for it. President Trump apparently was cooperating with the investigation, notwithstanding liberal press reports. He voluntarily turned over 15 boxes of documents months before the FBI’s drastic escalation.”
Grassley pointed out that Trump’s former opponent, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, was never subjected to such a raid after she, along with members of her staff were found to have mishandled classified documents while using a non-government email server during the 2016 election.
Grassley then alleged that the bureau, under the leadership of Wray, was an “accomplice to the Democrats’ false information campaign designed to undermine my investigation of alleged Biden-family corruption.”
“On August 6, 2020, as Senator Ron Johnson and I were finishing our report on the Biden family’s financial connections to foreign governments and questionable foreign nationals, you succumbed to pressure from Democrats in Congress and provided an unnecessary briefing that Democratic leadership requested in an effort to falsely label our investigation as Russian disinformation,” the letter continued. “That briefing consisted of information we already knew and information that wasn’t connected to our Biden investigation. We made clear at the time our concern that the briefing would be subject to a leak that would shed false light on the focus of our investigation. Predictably, on May 1, 2021, the Washington Post did just that, falsely labeling our investigation as Russian disinformation.”
Let’s hope this goes beyond getting Wray out of office and also includes Patel being successfully confirmed. If that happens, we might just see some redemption for the agency.
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