FBI Director Christopher Wray has announced that he will step down at the end of the current administration's term. Wray announced his resignation three years before the end of his term to avoid conflict with Donald Trump. The president-elect called this news “a great day for America”.
According to the “NYT” report, Christopher Wray informed about this during a meeting with FBI employees at the agency's headquarters. “I have decided that the right thing to do for the Bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down,” he said. “I believe that this is the best way to prevent the office from becoming more entangled in controversy, while at the same time reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to the way we do our work,” he said. Wray was appointed to a 10-year term in 2017 by Trump, who fired his predecessor amid an investigation into Russian ties to the president's entourage. However, in recent years, Wray has been heavily criticized by the current president-elect for allegedly politicizing the service. The FBI's search of Trump's property in Florida was particularly controversial because of his possession of classified documents.
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Trump: Wray's resignation is a great day for America
“The resignation of Christopher Wray is a great day for America because it will end the weaponization of what has become known as the United States Department of Justice. I just don't know what happened to him. Now we will restore the rule of law for all. .Americans,” Trump said in a post on Social Truth on Wednesday. “Under the leadership of Christopher Wray, the FBI illegally entered my home, worked diligently to impeach and prosecute me, and did everything they could to undermine the success and future of America. They used their enormous power to threaten and destroy many innocent Americans. , and some of them will never recover from what was done to them,” he said.
Trump has previously suggested he plans to fire Wray before his term expires, choosing his close ally Kash Patel to replace him. Patel is a controversial former prosecutor who has won Trump's sympathy by criticizing the service's handling of the president's Russia-related scandal and has repeatedly announced retaliation against political opponents, journalists and representatives of the “deep state” in recent years. who, in his opinion, participated in a conspiracy against Trump.
In an interview with NBC, Trump claimed he had “no intention of going back to the past,” but later added that Patel should open an investigation into his opponents “if they do anything wrong.” “They were after me and I didn't do anything wrong,” he said. Later, he added that members of the congressional investigative committee investigating the events surrounding the January 6 attack on the Capitol should go to prison.
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