director Christopher Ray telling the agency workforce that he will resign his position before the

Trump administration takes over in January. These are his words, quote, this is the best way to

avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are

so important to how we do our work. This, of course, clears the way for Trump's pick Cash Patel to be the next director.

If he can get through the confirmation process, he is a man who has signaled massive changes once he takes control.

The FBI's footprint has gotten so freaking big.

And the biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of

its intel shops. I'd break that component out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building

on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state. Because right now he is

the person who Donald Trump says he wants to replace Chris Ray.

And a source familiar with the Trump transition team's thinking just said the following when asked for a response to Ray's resignation.

And this is the quote, the transition team is confident in Cash Patel and confident he will be ready to serve the American people on day one if If he should be confirmed, which seems to be against the odds, David, is there any doubt

he will start taking some of those actions on day one?

Oh, I think there's no doubt.

I mean, he has said the 2020 election was stolen.

He has said the Trump-Russia investigation by Robert Mueller never should have

been carried out. He's talked about, you know, firing large groups of people. I've talked to people

who he cites in his book for allegedly committing these deep state crimes and they don't even

understand what he's talking about. They seem more to be people who he disagrees with

politically or people he's had bad interactions with earlier in his career. So I don't want

to be too harsh here. It's up to the Senate. But I cannot, I just want to emphasize the level

of concern among current and former FBI officials that Cash Patel is the wrong person to run the FBI is very, very high.

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