Trump’s Saturday Night Massacre Is Already Happening

The much-anticipated but much-delayed release of the House intelligence committee memo produced by Representative Devin Nunes produced any number of Beckettian diversions over the last week, and for a good portion of the day on Thursday, attention focused on FBI Director Chris Wray and whether he might resign.

In the wake of the FBI’s highly unusual public statement opposing the release of the memo (and placing it at odds with the White House), The Washington Post’s Matt Zapotosky plucked from the an in which Wray was ready to resign over Bush-era surveillance overreaches, along with—wait for it—James Comey and Robert Mueller. CNN that White House aides were afraid Wray would resign if President Trump released the memo. Then NBC’s highly reliable Pete Williams cold water on it, saying Wray had no intention of stepping down.