Trump taps Kash Patel for 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.
43% : "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.
30% : Trump ended up dropping his plans.
19% : During the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, Patel gained favor with Trump as a congressional staffer after drafting a memo that accused the FBI of making mistakes in how it obtained a warrant to conduct surveillance of a former Trump campaign volunteer.
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.
17% : 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.
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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