Will the second time be the charm for one-time Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent and former Rep. Mike Rogers?
Rogers, the 2024 Republican Senate nominee in Michigan who lost his election last week by a razor-thin margin, met Thursday with President-elect Trump’s transition team regarding potentially serving as FBI director in the former and future president’s second administration, sources familiar tell Fox News.
The meeting took place at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Rogers worked as a special agent with the FBI in its Chicago office and who served as chair of the House Intelligence Committee during the final four years of his decade-long tenure in Congress, was interviewed in 2017 during Trump’s first administration to serve as FBI director after James Comey was dismissed.
But Trump at the time decided to appoint Christopher Wray to the traditional ten-year term steering the federal law enforcement agency.
Trump, throughout his 2024 White House bid, campaigned in part on cleaning house at the FBI and has repeatedly claimed – without providing proof -that the bureau is chocked full of politically motivated and corrupt executives. And while not as much as others, Wray at times has been a target