Washington (AP) In the most blatant sign yet that the next administration is seeking to replace current director Christopher Wray, incoming Vice President JD Vance announced Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is evaluating applicants for the position of FBI director.
Vance justified his absence from a Senate vote that confirmed President Joe Biden’s judicial nominee in a social media post that was later removed. He claimed that at the time of the vote, he was meeting with President Trump to interview for several government jobs, including the FBI Director position.
On X, the website that was once known as Twitter, he said, “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.”
Vance was alluding to the Senate vote that he and a number of other Republican senators did not attend on Monday, which confirmed Embry J. Kidd, a Biden nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
A request for comment from the Trump transition team was not immediately answered, and an FBI representative declined to comment.
Wray’s replacement would not be shocking considering Trump’s long-standing hatred of the director he chose when he was president seven years ago, even though the FBI director job has a 10-year term. For example, Trump used social media this past summer to demand that Wray step down when Wray seemed to attest to Biden’s mental clarity.
Conservative strategist Steve Bannon and other Trump allies have been pushing Trump supporter Kash Patel for the job, but Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent and chairman of the House intelligence committee who recently lost his bid for the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Michigan, is also considered a possible candidate.
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