'Countdown for Wray': Massive FBI shakeups expected as Trump 2.0 draws closer

11 November 2024

Donald Trump's victory in 2016's presidential election led to a shakeup at the FBI — including Trump's decision to fire then-FBI Director James Comey in 2017.

Now, following Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, new shakeups at the FBI are expected. And FBI Director Christopher Wray and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate, according to Washington Times sources, aren't expected to remain in those positions.

An FBI source, quoted anonymously, told the Times, "It's a countdown for Wray because (people here) don't think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey. Trump will say, 'Yeah, fire his a**. Don't let him take the plane home.'"

In 2017, Comey, the Washington Times' Kerry Picket notes, "learned about his termination while flying to California on the bureau's airplane."

Picket reports, "Sources say others on the seventh floor of the FBI are so concerned about their jobs that they are likely to flood Washington's private security job market. Most of the sources said no one's job in the FBI at a GS-14 level or higher is safe, and they fully expect Mr. Trump to 'smash the place to pieces when he gets in' and that it will be a 'bloodbath.'"

Former FBI whistleblower George Hill described the state of the FBI as "frazzled."

Hill told the Times, "I have friends still at the bureau telling me that no less than 50 senior executives (SES) are scrambling to retire ASAP."

Read the Washington Times' full report at this link (subscription required).

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