Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will resign next month to serve as a co-deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, signifying the Missouri litigator's rapid ascent in Trump's political orbit.

The move appears to diminish the authority of the current deputy director, Dan Bongino, whose tumultuous tenure has included a pitched argument over files related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Bailey, appointed in 2022 by former Gov. Mike Parson, is the third Missouri Attorney General in six years to leave for a position in Washington, D.C.

Bongino has reportedly been on thin ice at the agency since he clashed with Bondi earlier this year about the Justice Department’s handling of the files related to late convicte