An aide to President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that the incoming administration will not select former Rep. Mike Rogers to be the next FBI director.
“Just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI. It’s not happening—in his own words, ‘I have never even given it a thought.’ Not happening,” Trump aide Dan Scavino wrote on social media platform X.
Rogers, former U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman, unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, losing to Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).
Rogers, a former Michigan House representative and FBI official, told Fox News on Friday that the “bureau has lost [the] confidence of the American people,” adding that the FBI should apply resources targeting human trafficking, drug trafficking, crime, and related matters….