Trump announces he intends to replace current FBI director with loyalist Kash Patel

[hedda_foil]

Source: CNN

Updated 7:45 PM EST, Sat November 30, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he intends to nominate Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, in an extraordinary announcement that once in office Trump would move to replace the current director, Christopher Wray, before his term expires.

“I am proud to announce that Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel will serve as the next 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 posted on Truth Social on Saturday evening.

“Kash will work under our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI,” Trump added.

Wray has three years remaining in his 10-year term and would have to resign or be fired to create a vacancy. Trump nominated Wray in 2017 after firing James Comey, but he began to sour on Wray before he left office in 2021. Trump’s view of the FBI only worsened after his Mar-a-Lago resort was searched in August 2022, and Trump was later indicted for allegedly retaining classified documents.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/politics/kash-patel-fbi-director-trump/index.html

[underpants]

1. He's just trolling at this point.

Announcing replacing the FBI Director on Saturday of the Thanksgiving weekend? Jesus.

[SunSeeker]

3. It's not like Thanksgiving has any meaning to Trump.

As far as I can tell, Melania and Baron aren't even at Mar-A-Lago for the holiday. Trump is spooning with Elon.

[a kennedy]

4. No they were there......here's a video of the awesome thanksgiving celebration.....oh and let me just

gag right here:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/donald-trump-elon-musk-spend-thanksgiving-mar-lago-116317554

[SunSeeker]

9. It was Elon and some male Republican douchebag sitting on either side of Trump.

As the camera panned, that may have been Melania sitting on the far right side of the table, but she was not sitting next to her hubby. I didn't see Baron in that video, did you?

[SunSeeker]

2. I hope no Democratic president ever keeps on a Republican FBI Director ever again.

[Ocelot II]

5. Why would that make a difference?

If Biden had replaced Wray with a Democrat, Trump would have fired that person and replaced him with Patel anyhow. Trump almost got rid of Wray during his first term. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/trump-bill-barr-chris-wray/index.html

[SunSeeker]

8. We could have gotten someone who didn't drag his feet like Wray.

We could have had a much more aggressive FBI director with regard to things that matter for the country, like voter suppression, or investigating lawbreaking office holders like Gaetz, etc. Instead, Wray was aggressive with Hunter Biden - a private citizen! And he let Trump play cat and mouse for months with his agents trying to get our classified documents back from Mar-A-Lago.

[Mike Niendorff]

6. ...

And the #MafiaState continues to take shape.


MDN

[no_hypocrisy]

7. If I were Christopher Wray, I'd make triplicate copies of the dossier

I'm certain that he's compiled of Trump and hide them in three different places.

And wait.

The reason that J. Edgar Hoover kept his position for decades was because he had files on everybody and let everybody know that he had files on them.