Wray Will Reportedly Stick Around For Biden’s Term … If Trump Doesn’t Fire Him First

FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee July 12, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Wray will fill the position that has been left behind by former director James Comey who was fired by President Donald Trump about two months ago.
FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee July 12, 2017 on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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FBI Director Christopher Wray reportedly won’t have to job hunt when President-elect Joe Biden takes office — as long as President Trump doesn’t get around to firing Wray first.

According to a New York Times report on Wednesday, a senior adviser to Biden said the President-elect has no plans to remove Wray when the incoming administration is ushered in.

The Biden adviser, however, told the Times that Biden’s team was “not removing the FBI director unless Trump fired him.”

Wray has been rumored to be one of the first heads on the President’s post-election chopping block after refuting Trump’s bogus voter fraud claims and acknowledging that far-right white nationalist-motivated violence is a national security threat to the country.

While Trump in 2017 fired former FBI Director James Comey, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, Senate-confirmed FBI directors are rarely fired and are expected to have 10-year terms.

Following Comey’s firing — which prompted the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to probe possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials in the 2016 campaign — Trump appointed Wray, a Republican who served during President George W. Bush’s presidency.

The sitting president reportedly aired his frustration with Wray to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. According to the Times, Trump wanted to fire Wray when documents related to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn were declassified by other officials. Trump believed Wray delayed declassifying Russia probe-related documents.

Meadows reportedly prevented Wray’s ouster by contacting Attorney General Bill Barr, who dissuaded Trump from firing his FBI director.

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  1. C’mon, trump, fire him. Then Biden can appoint someone who doesn’t have any trump taint on them.

  2. He’s sure to be fired now.

  3. Avatar for rickeu rickeu says:

    The Biden adviser, however, told the Times that Biden’s team was “not removing the FBI director unless Trump fired him.”

    So by saying that to press the idea is to have Trump fire him? I kind a get the logic. Too much tainted by Trump not to wish to wish continue, acted with enough integrity that firing him would have a political cost?

  4. Seems like IMPOTUS firing personnel at this point is little more than vengeance (which he relishes too much). Be it Barr or Wray or whomever, at this point, their replacement can’t make it through the Senate confirmation process and anyone who replaces them have to have had previously been confirmed by the Senate. So, as wackadoodle as they are, not much can or will happen that won’t be challenged in some fashion. Not that it matters to “burn it to the ground” 45.

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