If anyone wanted a glimpse of the incompetence and chaos in the previous administration, the FBI’s top leadership just put on a master class over the last few days.
Last month, Christopher Wray made his intention public to resign as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Donald Trump had already announced Kash Patel as his replacement, which meant that Trump would fire Wray at the first opportunity. (Trump had repeatedly pledged to do just that.) Wray planned to resign on Sunday and leave his deputy director Paul Abbate to assume the role of Acting Director, presumably to ensure continuity until a new FBI Director could win Senate confirmation.
Did Wray even bother to check with Abbate? It sure doesn’t look like it, because Abbate quit almost as soon as he took the reins at the FBI:
FBI’s longtime deputy director, who had been expected to…
