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Christopher Wray’s exit clears the way for a new, better FBI

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Good riddance to FBI Director Chris Wray.

A pretty boy who perfected the art of stonewalling at congressional oversight hearings and treated the FBI airplane like his luxury private jet, he has presided over some of the worst injustices in the bureau’s history.

He sapped public trust and brought the mighty bureau to its knees.

Now he has bowed to the inevitable, announcing last week that he will be stepping down two years and nine months shy of his 10-year term.

He’s getting out before the arrival of Kash Patel, the tough-minded 44-year-old Deep State warrior chosen by Donald Trump to reform the world’s most powerful law enforcement agency, pending Senate approval.

Of course, Wray, 57, was criticized by the likes of disgraced ex-CIA Director John Brennan for resigning early. They wanted him to force a showdown with Trump that would give new ammunition for resistance media.

Wray scurried for the exit two days after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), patron saint of whistleblowers, sent him an excoriating 11-page letter expressing “my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI. . . .

“For the good of the country, it’s time for you and your deputy [Paul Abbate] to move on to the next chapter in your lives.”

Deputy Director Abbate should also have turned in his badge. The alleged leftist personally overrode objections of FBI case agents to the needlessly provocative Mar-a-Lago raid against Trump and has been cited by FBI whistleblowers as the prime driver of retaliation against them.

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