Posted on 02/01/2025 10:10:44 AM PST by Morgana
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'.
Weston Loyd, a spokesman for the Consumer Bankers Association, said in a statement to The Times: 'The longer Director Chopra stays, the harder it will be for this pro-growth administration to undo the politically driven, government-price setting agenda that former President Biden's appointee has engaged in over the last several years.'
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Good. About time it was depoliticized.
PURGE!
The CFPB is Fauxcohontas’ baby. It needs to be assigned to the dustbin of history.
“FBI agents who investigated him are ‘escorted out’”
Not a perp walk but I’ll take it.
I guess cnn was too busy to show up and record it.
Oooh, Lizzie Pocahontas Warren is gonna go full rager after this.
Her pet agency being neutered.
Not tired yet.
They made it existential..
The awakening of a sleeping giant...
No fan of CFPB but the letter on the former director’s X account says his term expired. He wasn’t fired. The letter suggested he was appointed to some board by Trump during his first term. The letter was appreciative of PDJT.
Can the media get anything right?
If they “investigated” Trump, they would have known that he did not do anything illegal. They spent their time CREATING a crime.
Bye Felicia!
“PURGE!”
Naw - this is just pussy footin’ around.
What is really needed is a good old fashion Soviet Style Purge.
Maybe there are some old KGB guys still around that would like to join Elon as consultants. We could work out some kind of special visa for them.
/s
Yep. No homo.
Those people got political and politics got them.
One baby that should receive a post-birth abortion.
The winning isn’t the bit, people are willing to dissolve decades long friendships over this.
They are wrong of course.
Liberty is a concept lost on so many. How, is beyond me. Who votes against their own best interest. Repeatedly?
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If he keeps up this pace, maybe a little homo. LOL
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