CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Breaks Scoop About Trump Plan To Fire FBI Chief — Replace With Pro-Trump Ex-Congressman

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins dropped exclusive reporting on President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray and replace the agency’s leadership with loyalists.

Trump nominated Wray to a 10-year term in 2017 after he fired then-FBI Director James Comey — and Wray’s FBI went on to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort under the subsequent administration.

On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins — whose Trump sources are on par with anyone’s — reported from outside the site of that raid that Trump is poised to dump Wray. Collins sources told her pro-Trump ex-Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) is in the lead for the job, with Kash Patel being floated as his deputy:

We’re live from the center of the political universe, near the President-Elect’s Mar-a-Lago Club, where he just announced his new pick for attorney general, hours after Matt Gaetz’s sudden withdrawal.

And I have new reporting, tonight, on who Trump is eyeing for another top job.

I’m Kaitlan Collins, live from West Palm Beach, Florida. And this is THE SOURCE.

We are late into the evening, and there is still a ton of action coming out of Mar-a-Lago, tonight, as Matt Gaetz is out, and Pam Bondi is in, as the President-Elect’s pick for attorney general.

Donald Trump, landing on the former Florida attorney general, just hours after Gaetz withdrew, referring to Bondi, tonight, as, quote, “Smart and tough, and… an AMERICA FIRST Fighter.”

Bondi is a veteran prosecutor, who served as the State’s Attorney General from 2011 to 2019. She was actually the first woman elected to that office, and she is also a longtime Trump loyalist. She served on Trump’s defense team, during his first impeachment. And at one point, during his first term, he considered putting her in his cabinet, after he had fired Jeff Sessions in 2018.

We are told tonight that Bondi’s name started circulating almost immediately after Gaetz withdrew, around lunchtime today. One source saying that Bondi is a solid choice, said that they feel much better about her chances of being confirmed in the Senate.

I also have new reporting, tonight, about Trump’s potential plan to shake up the FBI. We know he has been planning, for months, to fire the FBI Director, Chris Wray, if he were reelected, even though Wray’s 10-year term that Trump appointed him to is not up until 2027.

But I’m told that Trump has been struggling with who to replace him with, someone that can strike the balance of carrying out the agenda that he wants at the FBI, also being able to be someone who can get confirmed by the Senate.

I’m hearing that one idea being floated now is Trump naming Mike Rogers, a former FBI special agent, and former Michigan congressman who recently ran for Senate, as the FBI Director, while also putting in Kash Patel, who is a controversial MAGA loyalist, as the Deputy FBI Director. That would be an attempt to please both camps. Of course, nothing on that front is final, until it is posted on Truth Social.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.