FBI Director Wray explains why hes resigning, defends feds raid of Trumps Mar-a-Lago

Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sunday he’s leaving his post when President-elect Donald Trump assumes office to avoid throwing the bureau “deeper in the fray” as he defended the agency’s 2022 raid of the 45th president’s Florida estate.The head of the FBI addressed his impending resignation, the controversial search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and how China is the “defining threat of our generation” in a wide-ranging interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night.Wray, 58, said deciding to step down before completing his 10-year term was “one of the hardest decisions” he’s ever faced.He announced his departure from the post last month.“I care deeply, deeply — about the FBI, about our mission — and in particular about our people.

But you know the president-elect had made clear that he intended to make a change, and the law is that that is something he is able to do for any reason or no reason at all,” Wray told Scott Pelley.“My conclusion was that the thing that was best for the bureau was to try to do this in an orderly way, to not thrust the FBI deeper into the fray.”While Trump appointed Wray to lead the FBI during his first term in office, the Republican was enraged when the federal agents raided Mar-a-Lago in 2022 in search of classified documents the former and now-incoming president was accused of mishandling.Wray, who served as director for more than seven years, also caught heat as the FBI probed alleged attempts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.Trump faced federal charges brought by a special prosecutor before both cases were dropped after he won the election in November.Wray stood up for his agents in both cases, insisting it’s the bureau’s job is to “follow the facts wherever they lead, no matter who likes it.”He argued the search of Trump’s massive property was a last option.“And when we learn that information, classified material, is not being properly stored, we have a ...