'Gum up the works': Trump backers furious over Christopher Wray's last action out the door
Donald Trump's allies are furious at outgoing FBI director Christopher Wray's final actions overseeing the law enforcement agency.
The Trump-appointed Wray announced he would resign at the end of president Joe Biden's administration, but in the meantime he has reportedly begun promoting employees among the senior executive service – which has set off howls from the MAGA world.
"Mr. Wray has already begun promoting employees among the senior executive service, those who serve within the bureau’s leadership, according to sources within the bureau who described it as an effort to burrow establishment figures deeper within the FBI," said Kerry Picket, senior congressional reporter for the Washington Times. "According to the sources, a plan is being formulated to slow-walk the new FBI director’s entry at the agency for three to four months. Such a strategy by the agency is risky given the long, tense history the FBI and Mr. Trump have had since the 2016 presidential campaign."
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Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official whose law license was suspended earlier this year over his efforts to cast doubt on Trump's 2020 election loss, complained that Wray's actions were unfair to the president-elect.
"This is a clear attempt to gum up the works of the FBI to frustrate Kash Patel’s takeover of the Bureau," Clark said. "Why aren’t we hearing condemnations of such conduct from the Left? It is conduct contrary to 'democracy.'"
"This is a government wide effort to put sand in the gears of the incoming Trump Administration," said X user Steve Ferguson.
"Do you think the FBI can be saved at this point?" added self-identified Trump supporter Mary Adams. "Always the same playbook, same as they did to Trump 2017 have people embedded everywhere. Fire them all, start with new people."
"Just fire them all or scatter them across the country," said self-described "GenX Constitutionalist" Angel Fawn.