Trump denies new FBI director threatened to resign under pressure from Sessions
Source: CNN
By Kaitlan Collins and Eli Watkins, CNN
Updated 5:13 PM ET, Tue January 23, 2018
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump denied Tuesday that FBI Director Christopher Wray threatened to resign in the wake of pressure from Attorney General Jeff Sessions to make staffing changes among the senior ranks at the FBI.
Sessions communicated to Wray, who was hand-picked by Trump and sworn in in August, that he needed a fresh start with his senior team at the FBI, a source familiar with the conversation told CNN. Sessions specifically suggested the bureau's deputy director, Andrew McCabe, and its top lawyer, James Baker, should go.
It is not clear if Sessions explicitly told Wray to fire the two men or simply reassign them, according to the source. Wray, in turn, threatened to quit if McCabe was removed or reassigned from his post. Baker was reassigned late last year.
Asked Tuesday about reports of Wray's threat to quit, Trump said: "He didn't at all. He did not even a little bit. Nope. And he's gonna do a good job."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/chris-wray-jeff-sessions/index.html
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Trump does realize that his tweets on McCabe are still available for people to look at?
mpcamb
(2,855 posts)He wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the ass.
Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Confident this was a strategic Mueller leak, meant to go hand in hand with today's Sessions/Mueller news.
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blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)The new FBI Director threatened to resign. No doubt about it.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)resigning, it is sessions following orders from king con.