{"id":2659,"date":"2024-11-19T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-says-trump-is-interviewing-fbi-director-replacements\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:33:10","slug":"vance-says-trump-is-interviewing-fbi-director-replacements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-says-trump-is-interviewing-fbi-director-replacements\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says Trump is interviewing FBI director replacements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s plans to end business-as-usual at the Justice Department apparently include replacing FBI Director Christopher Wray, Vice President-elect JD Vance indicated in a social media post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Vance revealed he and the president-elect were conducting interviews for the crucial FBI position in a since-deleted post on X. The post was responding to criticism the vice president-elect received for missing a Monday Senate vote that confirmed one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees to the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

“When this 11th Circuit vote happened, I was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI Director,” Vance wrote. “I tend to think it’s more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45. But that’s just me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump nominated former federal prosecutor and Justice Department official Christopher Wray as FBI director in 2017 after abruptly firing his predecessor, James Comey.<\/p>\n

However, in recent years, Trump and many in his orbit have soured on Wray, alleging that he hasn\u2019t done enough to root out alleged corruption and political bias at the law enforcement agency. They also fault Wray for allowing his agents to participate in the court-ordered search at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 that led to Trump\u2019s prosecution on charges of hoarding classified documents and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n

In July, after a congressional hearing during which Wray vouched for Biden\u2019s mental acuity, Trump said Wray should step down. \u201cWray has to resign, and NOW, for LYING TO CONGRESS!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wray, whose term runs through 2027, suggested in an interview last spring that he\u2019d like to stay in his job if Trump wins, as long as the FBI is permitted to maintain its longstanding standards to keep investigations apolitical.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as I think I can continue doing that in a way that adheres to all those rules and norms, it\u2019s what I\u2019d like to keep doing,\u201d he told NBC<\/a>. A spokesperson for Wray did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s disclosure about the FBI interviews came as he unleashed fury at Grace Chong, a producer for the daily \u201cWar Room\u201d webcast anchored by former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n

Chong had earlier taken to X to urge Vance and other GOP senators to \u201cshow up and do your one fricken job!!\u201d Although Trump publicly urged a halt<\/a> to all judicial confirmations during the transition, Chong\u2019s tweet prompted the vice president-elect to call her \u201ca mouth breathing imbecile who attacks those of us in the fight rather than make herself useful.\u201d Both Chong and Vance later deleted their posts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s plans to end business-as-usual at the Justice Department apparently include replacing FBI Director Christopher Wray, Vice President-elect JD Vance indicated in a social media post on Tuesday. Vance revealed he and the president-elect were conducting interviews for the crucial FBI position in a since-deleted post on X. The post was responding to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}