Wray Should Not Aid and Abet Trump’s Effort To Weaponize the FBI By Resigning

December 11, 2024

Wray Should Not Aid and Abet Trump's Effort To Weaponize the FBI By Resigning

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Christopher Wray announced he would resign from his role as FBI Director, two years before his 10-year term is set to end.

Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:

"FBI Director Christopher Wray should stay. He should rethink his decision to resign and finish out his 10-year term.

"FBI directors are given 10-year terms for a reason: to insulate them from political pressure. To defend the vital independence of the FBI, Director Wray should not preemptively resign in face of Donald Trump's bad-faith threats to remove him.

"It is especially important that Wray stays in office in light of Donald Trump's announced intention to appoint Kash Patel to the position. Patel is not only unqualified, he is a danger to America. Patel has already announced his intention to weaponize the FBI against Trump's perceived enemies - threatening a return to the agency's most sinister history, or worse.

"If Donald Trump fires him, so be it. But Wray should not aid and abet the effort to weaponize the FBI by bowing out in advance."