Why Did The FBI Director Resigned? He left Trump a Cherry Bomb

Too ignorant to know (and his people too) he has not realized he can't have his choice of FBI Director,   You know the one who said he will demolish the J.Edgar Hoover building in NYC and make it into aa museum. No experience in law enforcement. Trump hate law enforcement so the guy is perfect for Trump but not the FBI. Adam Gonzalez

 

By David French:

I also wrote a short post about the resignation of Chris Wray, the director of the F.B.I. Was it a capitulation to Donald Trump, or an act of defiance? I believe it was an act of defiance. Here’s why:

According to the Vacancies Reform Act, if a vacancy occurs in a Senate-confirmed position, the president can temporarily replace that appointee (such as the F.B.I. director) only with a person who has already received Senate confirmation or with a person who’s served in a senior capacity in the agency (at the GS-15 pay scale) for at least 90 days in the year before the resignation.

Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s chosen successor at the F.B.I., meets neither of these criteria. He’s not in a Senate-confirmed position, and he’s not been a senior federal employee in the Department of Justice in the last year. That means he can’t walk into the job on Day 1. Trump will have to select someone else to lead the F.B.I. immediately, or the position will default to the “first assistant to the office.”

In this case, that means the position would default to Paul Abbate, who has been the deputy director of the F.B.I. since 2021, unless Trump chooses someone else, and that “someone else” cannot be Patel, at least not right away.