FBI senior execs left 'shell-shocked' over Trump victory, 'scrambling to retire ASAP'

Senior executives at the FBI have reportedly been left "stunned" and "shell-shocked" over Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 election, which resulted in him winning all swing states, the electoral votes necessary, and the popular vote over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

One FBI source told the Washington Times in regards to the agency’s fitness requirements, "You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test? Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door."

The sources added that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Director Paul Abbate are unlikely to remain at the agency before Trump is sworn in. Employees at the FBI also recalled when Trump in his first term fired former Director James Comey five months into his presidency.

"It’s a countdown for Wray because [people here] don’t think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey," the first source told the outlet. "Trump will say, ’Yeah, fire his ass. Don’t let him take the plane home," referring to Comey finding out in 2017 about his firing while on the FBI’s plane heading to California. 

Others are concerned about their jobs and likely to flood the private security job market in DC, and the sources said that no one at the FBI at a GS-14 level or higher is safe from losing their jobs once Trump is sworn in. They are expecting Trump to "smash the place to pieces when he gets in," adding that it will be a "bloodbath."

"I have friends still at the Bureau telling me that no less than 50 Senior Executives (SES) are scrambling to retire ASAP," former FBI whistleblower George Hill told the outlet, adding that people in the agency are calling the current state of the FBI "frazzled."

Others raised concerns about X owner and entrepreneur Elon Musk being brought into the Trump administration as head of government efficiency, with one source telling the outlet, "When he tries to do efficiency at headquarters, the place is going to have five people … if he’s talking about a lot of dead weight."

"Try to find a person that’s actually working. That may be the biggest problem there—that there’s no efficiency. So that’s actually the bigger threat. If you’re going to try to make the government efficient, you would start with the FBI, because if you do politics all the time, you’re probably bloated.”