12/01/2024

Trump Says He Will Replace FBI Director Wray with Loyalist Kash Patel

Patel possesses no law enforcement experience

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he planned to replace FBI Director Christopher A. Wray with Kash Patel, a move that would install a staunch loyalist atop an agency Trump has repeatedly criticized.

This pick — which cannot happen unless Trump fires Wray or the FBI director steps down before the end of his 10-year term — comes as the president-elect has rolled out appointments and proposed nominations that appear aimed at putting his political allies in key positions where officials and agencies had contradicted or angered him in the past.

The FBI has long been a target of Trump's anger. While in office and afterward, Trump derided the country's premier law enforcement agency as "badly broken" and said it "lost the confidence of America." Trump has also singled out Wray, whom he picked to be the FBI director during his first term, for criticism over the years.

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