BREAKING: Wray Resigns!

The New York Times reports that FBI Christopher Wray has informed FBI employees he is resigning.

That is just too glorious for words to adequately express.

Here is an excerpt from that story:

Where Things Stand

Updated

Dec. 11, 2024, 2:10 p.m. ET7 minutes ago

Adam Goldman and Devlin Barrett

Reporting from Washington

Christopher Wray says he will step down as F.B.I. director.

The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, told bureau employees on Wednesday that he intended to resign in January, bowing to the reality that President-elect Donald J. Trump had publicly declared his desire to replace him.

The announcement comes after Mr. Trump said in late November that he intended to nominate Kash Patel, a longtime loyalist, to run the F.B.I., and more than two years before Mr. Wray’s 10-year term would have expired.

His resignation would likely mean that Paul Abbate, the deputy F.B.I. director, would run the bureau at least until the end of April, when he is set to retire.

Over more than seven years, Mr. Wray oversaw one of the most consequential and tumultuous periods in the bureau’s history, juggling high-profile criminal investigations of political figures, heated congressional inquiries and two attempted assassinations of Mr. Trump.

Even as he fended off Mr. Trump’s relentless criticisms of the F.B.I., Mr. Wray supervised a wide array of national security issues that included terrorism, escalating cyberattacks and threats from geopolitical rivals like China, Iran and Russia. He also had to grapple with a spate of mass shootings and the rise of right-wing extremism while managing an agency with 35,000 employees and a budget of more than $10 billion.

But it was the bureau’s scrutiny of Mr. Trump that almost certainly cut short Mr. Wray’s tenure.

His F.B.I. repeatedly investigated Mr. Trump, including by searching the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022 for classified documents, examining his widespread efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and delving into the possible links between his 2016 campaign and Russian intelligence operatives engaged in election interference.

“He invaded Mar-a-Lago,” Mr. Trump told NBC News in an interview broadcast on Sunday. “I’m very unhappy with the things he’s done.”

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That is all.