If President Trump wins re-election, he'll move to immediately fire FBI Director Christopher Wray and also expects to replace CIA Director Gina Haspel and Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
Wray and Haspel are despised and distrusted almost universally in Trump's inner circle.
While Trump has also privately vented about Attorney General Bill Barr, he hasn't made any formal plans to replace him, an official said.
Trump is furious that Barr isn't releasing before the election what Trump hoped would be a bombshell report by U.S. Attorney John Durham on the Obama administration's handling of the Trump-Russia investigation.
Trump is also increasingly frustrated with Haspel for opposing the declassification of documents that would help the Justice Department's Durham report.
As for Wray, whose expected firing was first reported by The Daily Beast, Trump is angry his second FBI chief didn't launch a formal investigation into Hunter Biden's foreign business connections - and didn't purge more officials Trump believes abused power to investigate his 2016 campaign's ties to Russia.
Trump also grew incensed when Wray testified in September that the FBI has not seen widespread election fraud, including with mail-in ballots.
Monday, October 26, 2020
‘If Trump wins, Chris Wray and Gina Haspel will immediately be fired'…
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