Christopher Wray, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said he will step down as President Donald Trump becomes his boss. Trump has already nominated Kash Patel to lead the F.B.I.
During Wray’s time in office he authorized numerous investigations into Trump, including a raid on Mar-a-Lago, where Trump lives. The agency not only searched Trump’s home there, but included his wife Melania’s closets and his son’s room, looking for classified documents.
Patel has been a critic of the agency that has come to represent the Deep State. Immediately after Trump was shot on July 13, Wray tried to diminish the event by saying that what hit Trump may have been shrapnel.
Also during Wray’s tenure, the F.B.I. participated in a raid on the home of a couple in Homer, Alaska, saying they were searching for Nancy Pelosi’s laptop, which went missing after protesters disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election. They found no laptop, but destroyed the home and took away electronic equipment, as well as their copy of the Constitution, somehow proof that they were lawbreakers.
Some Democrats, such as Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, have said that the F.B.I. director is entitled to serve 10 years and cannot be fired, but that is an intentional misreading of the law. The director may not served longer than 10 years, but has no guarantee of a 10-year term.
