FBI Director Christopher Wray says he'll resign as Donald Trump takes office

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : "Trump said on Truth Social that he has "great respect for the rank-and-file of the FBI, and they have great respect for me.
50% : Republican confidence in the FBI has plummeted in the near-decade since Trump came down the golden escalator in 2015 and announced his run for president of the United States.
45% : While most of the FBI's work takes place far afield of daily politics, much of the public discussion of the bureau's work in recent years has centered on political cases, many of them involving Trump.
43% : Trump indicated in a recent interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press" that he wasn't "thrilled" with Wray, saying that Wray "invaded Mar-a-Lago" -- a reference to the 2022 FBI search for classified documents that led to Trump's 2023 indictment on seven criminal charges -- and that he wanted someone in place to "straighten" out the bureau.
41% : While the bureau has traditionally been a generally conservative-leaning organization filled with law enforcement and military veterans (who have an advantage in the FBI hiring process), Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill and in the conservative media have portrayed the FBI as a hotbed of liberalism and the home of the "deep state" determined to take him down.
39% : "Trump has already said he will nominate Kash Patel for the position of FBI director, which typically is for a 10-year term, part of a post-Watergate reform intended to make FBI directors less beholden to the whims of presidents.
29% : Trump wrote on his social media website that Wray's departure would be "a great day for America as it will end the Weaponization of what has become known as the United States Department of Injustice.""I just don't know what happened to him," Trump wrote about the man he chose to become FBI director after he fired Comey.
23% : Wray, a Republican, was appointed by Trump in 2017 after the then-president fired James Comey as FBI director.
17% : Trump said, responding to a question about whether he would fire Wray if he didn't resign on his own.

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