Trump taps Kash Patel for FBI director

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Source: NBC

President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday he would pick Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to to the acting secretary of defense during the first Trump administration, to serve as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and “America First” fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People," Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social, arguing Patel would "bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI."

Patel has earned a reputation as the ultimate Trump loyalist who has called for a purge of perceived enemies in the Justice Department and intelligence agencies.

A former public defender who rose to increasingly senior national security posts in the final year of Trump’s first term, Patel has promoted the falsehood that the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump as well as baseless claims that federal bureaucrats in the “deep state” tried to overthrow the former president.

Patel has called for replacing “anti-democratic” civil servants in law enforcement and intelligence with “patriots” who he says will work for the American people, and in his memoir described the current political moment as “a battle between the people and a corrupt ruling class."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-taps-kash-patel-fbi-director-rcna179736

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[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Oh, FFS.

[displacedvermoter]

2. Isn't there already an FBI director in place?

[DoBW]

4. what a freakshow.............nt

[Ocelot II]

5. They have ten-year terms and have to be confirmed by the Senate.

Christoper Wray has held the position since 2017. The FBI Director's boss is the AG but he can be fired by the president.

[displacedvermoter]

7. I know

Just thinking out loud that he is naming a replacement for someone already in place that he has yet to fire.

Bizarre, but get used to it I guess?

[Ocelot II]

11. I'm sure Wray knew his days were numbered.

Trump appointed him in the first place, but he clashed with Trump on several issues, notably Ukraine and Russian election interference. He also called 1/6 domestic terrorism. No way was Trump not going to fire him.

[BOSSHOG]

26. In other words Wray told him the truth

Trump doesn’t want to be told the truth, doesn’t care about the truth. Republicans in Washington know Wray told him the truth, said republicans are in a quandary. Do the right thing or destroy liberty and Justice for all. Hey no big deal for spineless cowards.

[travelingthrulife]

34. I think he stated that he was planning to fire Wray.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Yes, trump will have to fire Wray

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Kash Patel to lead FBI Inmates truly running the asylum

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[D. Spaulding]

6. Trump is clearly telegraphing that there is only one group he's concerned with appealing to

And that is the MAGA audience on alt right media that helped him get elected, and are his most vocal and biggest fans. It's sad really that he hasn't developed any humility or thought about what a second term could mean for a positive legacy. Instead, he's just going to give the middle finger to the rest of us, and cater to the adulation of his intransigent supporters.

[JoseBalow]

19. and cater to the adulation of

his intransigent supporters himself.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. I know the decision was whether it would be CIA or FBI

and here we are.

Hopefully the Senate will do its job and reject this nonsense. All they need is 4 to say no.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Patel is up there as one of trump's worst nominees and that is saying a great deal

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[FakeNoose]

12. Wait ... Chump's daughter Tiffany has a law degree! Why doesn't he name Tiffany?

Cowabunga!

[jvill]

13. With Patel at FBI, every American will need to assume any report out of the FBI is 100% political fabrication.

Without public and validating evidence, everything from the FBI should be assumed to be a lie.
Every. Single. Thing.

[kimbutgar]

14. Lord help us if this monster is confirmed

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Let's go full Nazi shall we? Wonder how rank and file will take this. Hope FBI stands tall and thwarts this asswipe. nt

[amb123]

16. Kash Patel - Trump's Enforcer of Loyalty

[blue blues]

17. WHAT I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO ELIMINATE THE F.B.I.

Well i guess that it still happening

[JoseBalow]

22. But then how would he use it against his enemies?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Welcome to DU

[Sneederbunk]

18. That guy is crazy.

[LeftInTX]

20. Cray-cray

He looks like he's gonna jump out of his skin.

[JoseBalow]

21. Patel?!? Fuck you!

[C0RI0LANUS]

23. Narendra Modi and the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) can't wait for Kash Patel to be D/FBI.

"Kash Patel was raised as a Hindu, and has said that he has always had a "very deep" connection with India."

The RAW have been implicated in killings and attempted killings of Sikhs in North America, so called "enemies of the state."



Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-unseals-indictment-sikh-killings-1.7043428

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/americas/canada-sikh-nijjar-assassination-suspects-intl-latam/index.html

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Government_Gangsters/pvyuEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT15&printsec=frontcover

[choie]

24. As horrible as Larry Sabato has always been

I'm kind of surprised he wants this FUCKER confirmed.

[Dem4life1970]

25. Another corrupt, Trump crony is nominated....

[HereForTheParty]

27. I don't think he's getting confirmed

He's at least as controversial as Matt Gaetz

[womanofthehills]

36. I would be afraid to be a Republican senator voting against

What Trump wants. I think they will threaten to look at the senator’s income & private life with a fine tooth comb.

[HereForTheParty]

37. There were enough to stop Gaetz

so I'm hopeful. Patel is worse.

Grassley and Rounds were iffy earlier and then there's Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, and Curtis, who sunk Gaetz.

[moniss]

28. The guy who appears to have helped

Donald Crumb steal documents and sell them off.

[HUAJIAO]

29. Who was it again who was head of the Gestapo?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Another foreigner?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. Patel is a very dangerous nominee

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[Karasu]

32. This guy is crazy enough to actually push for the executions of Trump's "enemies", like Biden. He cannot be appointed.

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If he is--and he actually does any of the things he's said he'd do--that's a hard line in the sand for me wanting to stay in this country (frankly, that's true of a couple of these nominees). At that point, the writing will be on the wall for the US, spelled out in bold red letters for everyone to see.

[ancianita]

33. Patel has auditioned for this.

Patel said he "funded whistleblowers campaigns," which Democrats on the Republican-controlled House Judiciary weaponization subcommittee said included former FBI employees the FBI claimed endorse "an alarming series of conspiracy theories related to the January 6 Capitol attack ... and the validity of the 2020 election."

During a December 2023 appearance on the Steve Bannon "War Room" podcast, Patel concurred with Bannon's assertions that Donald Trump is "dead serious" about his intent to seek revenge against his political enemies should he be elected in 2024. Patel stated:

"We will go out and find the conspirators — not just in government, but in the media ... we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections ... We're going to come after you. Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out.

But yeah, we're putting you all on notice, and Steve, this is why they hate us. This is why we're tyrannical. This is why we're dictators ... Because we're actually going to use the Constitution to prosecute them for crimes they said we have always been guilty of but never have.[50]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel

Kashyap Patel -- living proof that loons who pervert basic logic in applying rule of law can actually possess college degrees.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

38. bill Barr talks about thwarting Trump's attempt to make Kash Patel the deputy FBI director,

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