Hugh Hewitt Says FBI Director Resigning Would Be ‘Gentlemanly Thing to Do’ Instead of Making Trump Fire Him

FBI Director Christopher Wray is reportedly considering resigning before President-elect Donald Trump can fire him.

Trump appointed Wray to lead the Bureau in 2017 after firing James Comey. FBI directors are appointed to 10-year terms, but the president-elect has said he demands personal “loyalty” and clearly believes Wray is lacking in this respect.

Instead, Trump has nominated Kash Patel, who served in Trump’s Department of Defense, to helm the FBI. Patel is a fierce Trump partisan who in 2022, published a list of 60 people in government he called “corrupt actors.”

On Tuesday’s Special Report on Fox News, Bret Baier asked Hugh Hewitt to weigh in.

“Hugh, obviously the FBI’s going to factor into these nominees with background checks,” the host noted.

“I think Kash Patel is a given,” the pro-Trump pundit said. “He’s going to be confirmed. And therefore, Director Wray is doing the obvious thing. It’s actually a gentlemanly thing to do rather than to make a big drama out of it to step aside ’cause Patel is coming in. He’s got the votes. I don’t think I hear anybody speaking out against him.”

Last December, Patel expressed a desire to go after those who brought criminal prosecutions against Trump and who “rigged” the 2020 election.

“And the one thing we will do that they never

will do is we will follow the facts and the law and go to courts of law and correct these justices and lawyers who have been prosecuting these cases based on politics and actually issuing them as lawfare,” Patel said at the time before falsely claiming the election was stolen. “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media. Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.”

Watch above via Fox News.