Christopher Wray will step down as FBI director before Donald Trump is sworn in next month, yielding to the president-elect’s plan to change the leadership of the top US law enforcement agency.
“After weeks of careful thought, I’ve decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down,” Wray, who was appointed by Trump in 2017 to a term that would have ended in 2027, told FBI staff on Wednesday.
The announcement comes less than two weeks after Trump nominated Kash Patel to lead the FBI, a controversial pick who has pledged to stamp out the “deep state” from US law enforcement agencies and defended far-right QAnon conspiracy theories.
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