Trump says he'll fire FBI Director Christopher Wray, replace him with longtime ally Kash Patel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Patel has been a staunch supporter of Trump for years and served in his first administration under a number of roles.
53% : He's raised money for Jan. 6 defendants and their families, including by promoting the "J6 Prison Choir," featuring Jan. 6 defendants still in jail, and co-producing their fundraising song "Justice for All," which Trump played at some of his campaign rallies.
49% : After news surfaced that the National Archives found some classified documents in boxes previously stored at Mar-a-Lago, Patel called the news "disinformation" and insisted he was there when Trump "declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves.
47% : After Trump left the White House, Patel held a number of jobs including hosting shows on far right media outlets.
47% : Patel said he has personally "recommended" to Trump that the new administration also strip any security clearances still held by the 51 then-former intelligence officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA director John Brennan, who in October 2020, just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, signed onto a letter dismissing the public release of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop as part of a "Russian information operation.
39% : Trump claimed Comey "wasn't doing a good job.
37% : "Four weeks later, Trump named Patel as one of his official representatives to the National Archives, and Patel promised to "march down there" and "identify every single document that they blocked being declassified at the National Archives, and we are going to start putting that information out.
32% : Patel has said he would target journalists, former senior FBI and Department of Justice officials and turn the FBI into a museum for the "deep state" on Day 1.MORE: Trump loyalist Kash Patel's tax-exempt charity raises questions, experts say"This FBI will end the growing crime epidemic in America, dismantle the migrant criminal gangs, and stop the evil scourge of human and drug trafficking across the Border," Trump said in a Truth Social post, announcing his pick.
32% : Trump can not make personnel changes to the FBI until he is sworn in.
31% : That November, after Trump lost the election, Patel was named chief of staff for the Defense Department, despite some critics saying he was unqualified for the role.
27% : Wray, the current agency director, was appointed in 2017 after Trump fired Director James Comey, less than four years into his 10-year term.

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