Trump nominates loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Patel joined Trump on the 2024 campaign trail and has promoted his memoir, a film adaptation of the memoir and a line of children's books featuring him as a "wizard" defending "King Donald.
44% : "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.
42% : In addition to Trump proposing that Patel serve as FBI director during his final months in office, Trump suggested that Patel serve as the deputy CIA director.
41% : "During the closing months of Trump's first term, Trump also proposed that Patel run the FBI.
37% : He's arguably the least qualified person ever nominated for a senior position in federal law enforcement," said the former official, who asked not to be named citing fears of retaliation from Trump.
37% : "A former public defender and federal prosecutor who rose to increasingly senior national security posts in the final year of Trump's first term, Patel gained favor with Trump as a congressional staffer during the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
25% : They also argue that any purge of FBI agents deemed disloyal to Trump is designed to intimidate any agent who dares investigate his conduct.
23% : Patel has promoted the falsehood that the 2020 election was "stolen" from Trump as well as the baseless conspiracy theory that federal bureaucrats in the "deep state" tried to overthrow the former president.
19% : William Barr, the attorney general at the time, vehemently objected and Trump dropped his plans.
18% : Trump and his allies first started referring to a "deep state" soon after the 2016 election, viewing the investigation into Russia's interference in the election -- and its outreach to the Trump campaign -- as an attempt to sabotage his presidency.
16% : Patel and some other Trump loyalists suspected there was information hidden away in the intelligence community that could shed more light on bureaucratic plotting against Trump and in favor of Joe Biden, former officials said.

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