Andrew McCabe the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s deputy director, whom US President Donald Trump repeatedly accused of political bias, has resigned.
News of his departure was broken by NBC Monday and comes a week after a report that Mr Trump wanted him out.
McCabe will be on the Bureau payroll until March (his official retirement date), when he will retire with full benefits.
He reportedly played a part in the tensions between the FBI and White House over the continued investigations into alleged collusion between Trump’s election campaign and Russia.
Raj Shah the principal deputy white house press secretary has stated that new director Christopher Wray, appointed after Trump sacked James Comey in May, would ‘clean up the misconduct at the highest levels of the FBI.’
It was also reported last week that the president had asked Mr McCabe during an Oval Office meeting whom he voted for in the 2016 election.
He also attacked McCabe over his Democrat wife and money paid to her by a Hilary Clinton committee for a failed 2015 Senate bid.