The F.B.I. director said he intended to resign
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| Christopher Wray, the F.B.I. director. Kenny Holston/The New York Times |
The F.B.I. director said he intended to resign
Christopher Wray, the F.B.I. director, said he would step down in January. The decision comes after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to replace Wray with a longtime loyalist, Kash Patel, before the director’s 10-year term expired.
Wray’s F.B.I. repeatedly investigated Trump, which included a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022 for classified documents. “I’m very unhappy with the things he’s done,” Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
Hegseth controversy: Senator Susan Collins of Maine met with Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, and pressed him on a range of issues, including the sexual assault allegations against him and the role of women in the military. She has not made a decision on supporting him yet.
More on the transition: Trump selected Andrew Ferguson, a current Republican member of the Federal Trade Commission, to be its chair, and picked Mark Meador, a former Senate Republican antitrust counsel, to join the agency. The moves effectively squeezed out the current Democratic chair, Lina Khan.
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| Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany with his cabinet yesterday. Clemens Bilan/EPA, via Shutterstock |


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