Vice President-elect JD Vance said in a now-deleted post on social media platform X that he and President-elect Donald Trump were interviewing candidates for a new FBI director.
The post, quoted by several media outlets and widely shared across social media in the form of screenshots, appears to primarily react to the Senate’s Nov. 19 vote confirming one of President Joe Biden’s judicial appointments to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“When this 11th Circuit vote happened, I was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI Director,” Vance wrote in the Nov.19 post. “I tend to think it’s more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49–46 rather than 49–45. But that’s just me.”…
