Trump says he'll nominate Kash Patel as FBI director to remake the...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Christopher Wray was appointed director by Trump in 2017 and technically has three years left on his 10-year tenure.
43% : In selecting Patel over more conventional contenders, Trump is again testing his ability to get the Senate to bend to his will by confirming some of his more provocative nominees.
39% : "Trump has also raised the prospect of using recess appointments to push his nominees through the Senate.
38% : Trump last week said he intended to nominate former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi to serve as attorney general.
35% : And while Trump may have wanted a loyalist willing to pursue retribution against his perceived adversaries, that perspective is likely to give pause to senators who believe that the FBI and Justice Department should operate free of political influence and not be tasked with carrying out a president´s personal agenda.
32% : But it´s also the case that all FBI directors serve at the pleasure of the president; indeed, Wray was nominated after Trump fired the FBI chief he´d inherited when he took office, James Comey.
23% : But Patel is likely to face deep skepticism during his confirmation hearings over his stated plans to rid the government of "conspirators" against Trump, and his claims that he would shut down the FBI´s Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters in the nation's capital and send the thousands of employees who work there to "chase down criminals" across the country.
12% : (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, File)The announcement means that Wray can either resign from the job, consistent with Trump´s apparent wishes, or wait to be fired once Trump takes office in January.
10% : He´s talked about trying to rid the government of "conspirators" against Trump and of going "after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections," whether criminally or civilly.

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