Trump makes surprising firing hours after FBI agents who investigated him are 'escorted out'

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Trump makes surprising firing hours after FBI agents who investigated him are 'escorted out'

Daily Mail
By LAUREN ACTON-TAYLOR
1 February 2025

The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been fired by the Trump administration hours after an FBI purge saw agents who investigated the President 'escorted out.'

Rohit Chopra acknowledged in a letter to have 'concluded' his term, according to a person familiar with his ousting, just hours after the President fired a cohort of FBI agents who worked on the Mar-a-Lago and January 6 investigations.

'I swore an oath to a five-year term, and I will keep serving that until I can pass the baton to someone else,' Chopra said in an interview this week, the New York Times reported.

'I totally respect and understand that the President can choose a director of his choice.'

Republicans have been opposed to Chopra since he was appointed in 2021 by former President Joe Biden and sought his removal from the position.

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, said on Tuesday that he anticipates a 'blockbuster announcement sometime soon' of who will take over the consumer bureau, The Times reported.

Scott previously called for Chopra's resignation and said he was 'no ally of consumers'.

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