FBI Shake-Up: Wray Resigns, Trump’s Loyalist Takes Charge 

United States: FBI Director Christopher Wray announced he will resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month. Wray made this decision after thinking about it for weeks. 

Trump had already nominated Kash Patel, who wants to limit the FBI’s power, to be the new FBI leader. 

Wray, who was appointed by Trump in 2017 for a 10-year term, has faced criticism from Republicans because of the FBI’s investigations into Trump after he left office. 

As reported by the BBC, speaking at the FBI meeting on Wednesday, Wray said: He has decided that what is proper for the bureau is for him to stay in the job until the end of the administration in January, and then resign. 

“In my mind that is the best way to lessen the risk of getting the bureau even further entangled, and to re-state and re-emphasize the values and principles that are so critical to how we do our work,” Wray continued. 

Following his speech he was given a standing ovation, some people in the audience broke into tears said an official who remained anonymous to the AP. 

Wray was appointed to head the FBI after Trump dismissed Comey after the FBI investigations into alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. 

Trump told Wray when appointing him to head the FBI that the man who graduated from Yale Law School was his man of impeccable credentials. 

But in recent years, Wray has become unpopular with the president-elect after the FBI helped a federal probe into Trump’s management of classified documents, a process that has been discontinued. 

This is the claim that Trump made when announcing that Wray had resigned: Trump has said: “Wray is a FOOL and today was a great day for America”. 

report ‘It will end the Weaponization of what has become known as the United States Department of Injustice,’ he said on Truth Social. ”We will now reign the rule for law to put back the American citizens.” 

After winning the elections again Trump mentioned Patel as his choice for the next FBI director, which is actually a loyalist of the incoming Republican president and former Trump’s aide. 

On Wednesday Patel expressed he was “ready for a proper handover and I will be prepared from day one”. 

“The senators have been wonderful to me and others and something that I look forward to regaining senators’ confidence by going through the advice and consent acquaintances and rejuvenating the FBI and its laws,” he said.