FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed Wednesday that he will step down from his post next month, ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, creating a vacancy that the incoming president intends to fill with loyalist Kash Patel.
Wray reportedly told FBI employees at an agency town hall that he would step down in January, nearly two and a half years before the expiration of the 10-year term he was sworn in for in August 2017. The news of his announcement was first reported by The New York Times.
