FBI pick Kash Patel claims first casualty from his hit list
Donald Trump's pick to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has claimed the first casualty from his hit list of 60 people who he thinks are the main actors of the deep state. FBI Director Christopher Wray will resign at the end of the Biden administration, the agency said on Wednesday. Wray was appointed by Trump in 2017 during his first term after Trump fired then director James Comey.
After Trump's re-election, he announced several appointments among whom was Kash Patel as the next FBI Director. Since Wray had a 10-year term ending in 2027, Trump's announcement of Patel as FBI head left Wray with two options: leave on his own or be fired when Trump takes charge.
Trump and his allies turned on Wray and the FBI after agents conducted a court-approved search of Trump’s Florida resort in 2022 to recover classified documents that he had retained after leaving office. Trump had called it weaponization of the agency which he said was part of a deep state conspiracy aimed at undermining his presidency.
Trump has made it his chief agenda to dismantle the deep state and «drain the swamp» in Washington. In an interview to Time magazine in April, Trump spoke about his plan to dismantle the deep state: «It means we want to get rid of bad people, people that have not done a good job in government. And we look at people like a company would look at people. You know, when you buy a company, you go in and you look at, how do you like the job? Job performance. They have job performance standards. And yeah, we would
