President-elect Trump expressed his discontent with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Sunday, claiming that Wray invaded his space during an interview on Meet the Press. “He invaded my home. I’m suing the country over it. He invaded Mar-a-Lago. I’m very unhappy with the things he’s done. And crime is at an all-time high. Migrants are pouring into the country that are from prisons and from mental institutions, as we’ve discussed. I can’t say I’m thrilled. I don’t want to, again, I don’t want to be Joe Biden and give you an answer and then do the exact opposite,” he told NBC News host Kristen Welker.
Trump appointed Wray as the FBI director during his first term and has recently announced his intention to nominate Kash Patel for the position of FBI director. “What I’m going to say is, I certainly can not be happy with him. Take a look at what’s happened. And then when I was shot in the ear, he said, maybe it was shrapnel. Where’s the shrapnel coming from? Is it coming from heaven? I don’t think so. So we need somebody to – you know, I have a lot of respect for the FBI. But the FBI’s respect has gone way down over the last number of years,” Trump said.
Welker said that Trump would need to fire Wray in order to make room for Patel, Fox News noted. “If Kash gets in, he’ll be taking somebody’s place and that somebody is the man you’re talking about,” Trump said. Wray is currently serving a 10-year term that began in 2017. Wray may choose to voluntarily resign from his position before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, though he has not yet announced his intentions. If Wray does not step down voluntarily, Trump could become the first U.S. president to both fire and appoint two separate FBI directors.
The president-elect also reached out to Americans who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris. “I’m going to treat you every bit as well as I have treated the greatest MAGA supporters,” Trump said, responding to a question about what he wanted to tell the people who didn’t vote for him. “These people are so dedicated to making America great again, it’s very simple. And I’m going to treat them just the same as I treat MAGA. We’ll treat everybody good. We want success for our country, we want safety for our country,” the president-elect added.
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