Christopher Wray is resigning as FBI director, multiple news outlets are reporting. Wray, who President Donald Trump appointed in 2017, had three years left in his term. However, the move isn’t as a surprise as now President-elect Trump announced he would nominate Kash Patel to be the new FBI director. JUST IN: FBI Director Chris Wray has resigned — making way for President Trump's nominee @Kash_Patel pic.twitter.com/328JgpoDlR— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) December 11, 2024 Wray presided over the FBI’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022. He also butted heads with Republicans in Congress–including Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio—over the bureau’s monitoring of traditional Catholics as well as parents speaking at public school board meetings. On Monday, Grassley wrote a letter to Wray about the bureau’s many failures. This included a failure to investigate potential corruption of President Joe Biden and his family; and refusing to provide information to Congress about conduct at the FBI.  “These failures are serious enough and their pattern widespread enough to have shattered my confidence in your leadership and the confidence and hope many others in Congress placed in you,” Grassley wrote to Wray.  Reports FBI Dir Wray is resigning after my letter on Monday outlining his failures Reform is badly needed at FBI American ppl deserve TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 11, 2024 Wray has reportedly said he would resign before Trump takes office. Under Wray’s watch, the FBI faced numerous controversies.  This included alleged targeting of FBI whistleblowers, who are supposed to have legal protection. Earlier this year, the FBI reinstated bureau employee Marcus Allen and agreed to back pay after initially placing him on a two-year unpaid suspension and revoking his security clearance. Allen had challenged Wray’s narrative on the Jan. 6, 2021 protest.  Also during Wray’s tenure, the FBI raided the home of pro-life activist Mark Houck.  On the left is Catholic father of seven Mark Houck pushing a Planned Parenthood volunteer threatening his son.On the right is the early morning FBI raid that arrested him for it in front of his family (he was acquitted of FACE Act charges).This is Chris Wray's legacy. pic.twitter.com/X9pmf7RqgD— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 11, 2024 The House Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report last year about an FBI Richmond field office memo that suggested infiltrating the churches of “radical traditional Catholics” for “threat mitigation.”  The FBI also investigated 25 parents who spoke at public school board meetings, according to the subcommittee’s findings.  On Wednesday, The Heritage Foundation posted on X that Wray was “one of the worst FBI Directors in American history.” Flashback to Christopher Wray pretending he was unaware of the extent of the FBI’s FISA abuses under his leadership.Today, he resigns in disgrace as one of the worst FBI Directors in American history. His tenure is defined by the blatant weaponization of the FBI against… pic.twitter.com/eTRlrQ9RWZ— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) December 11, 2024 “His tenure is defined by the blatant weaponization of the FBI against Americans to suppress free speech and religious liberty, intimidate and harass law-abiding Americans for dissenting political opinions, and abusing FISA surveillance to spy on law-abiding Americans,” the Heritage post says. This is a breaking news article and it will be updated. The post Wray Exiting as FBI Director appeared first on The Daily Signal.