Business Insider (Business Insider) reported on May 10 that sources familiar with the matter revealed that President Trump had considered firing FBI Director Chris Wray last spring, but Attorney General Bill Barr protested by threatening to resign.
The insider said Barr went to the White House for a meeting and was introduced to Bill Evanina, a senior counterintelligence official in the Trump administration who had also worked at the FBI in the past. When Barr realized that someone wanted to replace Director Ray with Evanina, he brushed it off. Later, when he was told of the plan, Barr resigned in protest. The source said this is the closest Director Ray, who is still in office, has ever come to being fired by President Trump.
Director James Comey of the FBI, who made special counsel Robert Mueller conduct the Russia investigation into Trump, was fired by President Trump in 2017, and then Director Ray took office.
However, Director Ray’s rhetoric on the Antifa, election issues and Russian interference in the election often contradicted Trump, and President Trump has publicly expressed his disappointment with Director Ray.
In the run-up to the 2020 election, President Trump pressed Director Ray to address widespread campaign integrity issues, but he disagreed with President Trump, and in September 2020, he claimed that Russia meddled in the election to “create division” and “discredit” presidential candidate Joe Biden, and that President Trump was continuing to downplay Russian interference.
Last October, it was reported that Trump was considering firing Director Ray after the election, but that did not happen. After Biden took office, his administration officials said that Biden had no intention of firing Director Ray, adding that it was normal for the FBI director to serve 10 years before Trump took office.
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