A successor appointed by Donald Trump will have access to some pretty damaging information, and Elizabeth Warren's toady would do almost anything to keep that from happening. But he failed.
Here's what Richard Cordray was trying to hide in his attempted coup at CFPB
I guess it was a mildly clever plan, even if the holes in it are kind of obvious. The law that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - which was basically written by Elizabeth Warren to make the bureau completely unaccountable to just about anyone - says that when the director is unavailable, the deputy director becomes acting director. So director Richard Cordray decided to first appoint leftist fellow traveler Leandra English as deputy director, then make himself "unavailable" by resigning.