Kash Patel has previously said, among other things, that Trump’s new administration would use the courts to attack the media.
President-elect Donald Trump announces that he will nominate his creditor By Kash Patel to head the FBI, the United States Federal Police.
Patel is known as a supporter of the deep state conspiracy theory and he wrote a book on the subject. Trump has often accused the deep state of conspiring against him.
– Kash is a brilliant lawyer, researcher and “America First” fighter, whose career has focused on exposing corruption, defending justice and protecting the American people, Trump wrote on his Truth social messaging service.
Patel served in the US National Intelligence Service and the Department of Defense during Trump’s first term as president.
Patel said in September that he wants to strip the FBI of its intelligence-gathering role and fire anyone at the FBI who refuses to follow Trump’s agenda. Patel also said on the conservative Shawn Ryan Show that he plans to close the FBI’s Hoover headquarters in Washington and name it the museum of the deep state the next day.
– I would send all those 7,000 construction workers all over America to chase criminals, he said.
Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon’s in a podcast interview about a year ago, Patel, on the other hand, said that Trump’s new administration would use the courts to attack the media, among other things.
Patel’s appointment may the of the New York Times to face obstacles in the Senate, which should confirm the appointment.
Appointed by the current FBI Director, Trump in 2017 by Christopher Wray there would still be three years left in the term of office. He should therefore either resign from his position or be fired in order for the position to open up, he writes CNN.
The news is updated.