Wray's resignation makes installation of Patel as FBI Dir much easier

[Dennis Donovan]

Garrett M. Graff
‪@vermontgmg.bsky.social‬
This is an unbelievable abdication by Wray and makes it so much easier for Trump to install a corrupt leadership under Kash Patel and weaponize the FBI. Wray is doing a huge disservice to the FBI past, present, and future.

‪Ellen Nakashima‬ ‪
@ellenwapo.bsky.social‬
21m
BREAKING: FBI Director Christopher Wray says he will resign before Trump takes office wapo.st/4fgeG7E

December 11, 2024 at 2:28 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/vermontgmg.bsky.social/post/3ld2ihkheok22

[tritsofme]

1. That doesn't make sense. Trump was going to fire him on day one.

Why give him the opportunity?

How does it make anything easier?

[2naSalit]

4. Probably to avoid...

Losing his pension and all the shit the last guy had to do to get his back.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. Because you don't obey fascism in advance.

But Trump fucking selected Wray -- while he may not have been as MAGA as some, he certainly was never someone that a Democrat should have willingly selected for the position. Biden should have gotten rid of him when he took office as part of cleaning up Trump holdovers, but he acquiesced to """tradition""" and let him stay on.

If anticipatory obedience to fascism wasn't enough for you to dislike this move by Wray, I fully believe that he is resigning in advance so that Trump doesn't have to fire him, meaning when/if a Democratic president tries to fire Patel or whichever MAGA holdover inevitably remains on after their inauguration, they will claim that it violates precedent and that Patel should be allowed to keep his position and I'm sure it will be happily taken up by the Republican-hijacked courts.

[uponit7771]

2. Grifting clowns who'll do what Benedict Donald wants them to do

[dsc]

3. Because firing the FBI director for no reason other than we have a new President

isn't how this is supposed to work. Some GOP members might have voted against Patel for that reason alone.

[Frasier Balzov]

7. Your response makes the most sense to me.

With the possible exception of "no other reason" for firing.

Trump's main justification for firing seems to be that Wray is to blame for the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Having a warrant to do so still left some discretion in the FBI whether or not to execute on it.

Of course it was the National Archives which initiated the whole recovery effort, and Wray had a duty to them to proceed.

[yaesu]

5. Does it really surprise anyone that the FBI has and will "assume the position" for tRump. nt

[John Farmer]

8. Usually I'm pleased that a Trump appointee has resigned.