{"id":28246,"date":"2024-12-11T19:27:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/fbi-director-christopher-wray-expected-to-resign\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T19:27:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:27:44","slug":"fbi-director-christopher-wray-expected-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/fbi-director-christopher-wray-expected-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Christopher Wray expected to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/topics\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI Director<\/a> Christopher Wray is expected to announce his resignation any moment, to step down from his post.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News learned Wray will make the announcement during an FBI town hall in Washington, D.C., during which thousands of FBI employees are expected to join virtually across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Wray was 7 years into his 10-year term.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/grassley-rips-wrays-failed-leadership-fbi-11-pages-examples-blistering-no-confidence-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GRASSLEY RIPS WRAY&#8217;S \u2018FAILED\u2019 LEADERSHIP AT FBI WITH 11 PAGES OF EXAMPLES IN BLISTERING \u2018NO CONFIDENCE\u2019 LETTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Republican lawyer in D.C. was hired by then President Trump in 2017 after he fired former Director James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>Since being re-elected to a second term in the Oval Office, Trump has nominated Kash Patel to succeed Wray, giving the current director two options: leave on his own or be fired.<\/p>\n<p>While Wray\u2019s last day is still undecided, it is expected to be in January before Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>The moment Wray officially leaves, Deputy Director Paul Abbate will become acting director until a new director \u2013 Patel if confirmed \u2013 is in place. Abbate is a career official who is eligible to retire from the bureau very soon. He planned months ago to retire in the new year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray is expected to announce his resignation any moment, to step down from his post. Fox News learned Wray will make the announcement during an FBI town hall in Washington, D.C., during which thousands of FBI employees are expected to join virtually across the country. Wray was 7 years into his 10-year &#8230; <a title=\"FBI Director Christopher Wray expected to resign\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/fbi-director-christopher-wray-expected-to-resign\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FBI Director Christopher Wray expected to resign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}