Vice President-elect JD Vance let slip that Trump is interviewing candidates to take over the FBI before the current director’s term is up during a heated X exchange over Biden judicial nominee confirmations.
The revelation was buried in a response to a now-deleted post by Steve Bannon’s War Room CFO Grace Chong, who had blasted the Ohio senator for missing a vote where a controversial Biden judicial appointee, Embry J. Kidd, had been confirmed.
“You guys better show up and do your one fricken job!! @JDVance @marcorubio,” Chong posted.
Vance shot back that Chong is a “mouth breathing imbecile” before going on to reveal that he and Trump were meeting with potential candidates to lead the bureau.
“When this 11th Circuit vote happened, I was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI Director. I tend to think it’s more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45,” Vance posted.
The agency is currently headed by Christopher Wray, whose ten-year term doesn’t expire until 2027.
Wray was installed in the position by Trump in 2017, but has since invoked the president-elect’s wrath over what he sees as political investigations against him, such as the infamous Mar-a-Lago raid.
In July, Wray questioned whether Trump had truly been struck by a bullet at the Butler Pa. rally where a would-be assassin shot him in the ear.
Vance has since deleted the post.
