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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Kashyap “Kash” Patel as the next Director of the FBI. Democrats and FBI bureaucrats are terrified because Patel is considered someone who will perform deep reforms at the FBI. Matthew Rice reports at The New York Sun:
President Trump’s choice to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, has a storied history with the America First movement and the long-running conservative crusade against the so-called “Deep State.” His promises for retribution in the second Trump administration have many Democrats worried about the prospect of prominent officials being arrested in swift fashion.
Trump nominated Mr. Patel on Saturday night in a surprising move, and many are already predicting that the nomination will die swiftly in the Senate. It would take only four GOP senators to sink the FBI director nomination.
On Sunday morning, Trump’s team released a series of quotes from either incoming or former national security officials who will serve under the president-elect, in an apparent effort to blunt negative stories about the new FBI director nominee.
Congressman Michael Waltz, who will take the helm as national security advisor in January, said the FBI is desperately in need of “reform,” and that Mr. Patel “is the man to drive that agenda!”
Trump’s new deputy chief of staff for policy, who will handle immigration and the border, Stephen Miller, called the nominee “a warrior, a patriot, a man of unquestioned integrity, who will tirelessly defend our democracy, end the abuse and corruption of government power, and restore the faith and trust of Americans in the Bureau.”
Trump’s final national security advisor during the first administration, Robert O’Brien, said he could count on [Mr. Patel] to get any job done no matter how complex or difficult the task.”
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