What to know about an influential Trump loyalist carving out his own brand within the GOP

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : He frequently cites that experience -- as a defense attorney, federal prosecutor, top House staffer and national security official -- when he pledges to jettison those disloyal to Trump and attacks the very intelligence community he could one day oversee.
44% : But such a role could be in Patel's future should Trump win a second term.
43% : What has he been doing since Trump left office?Patel, 44, is on the board of Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, and has a consulting contract with the company that pays him $120,000 a year.
41% : In his final months in office, Trump unsuccessfully pushed the idea of installing Patel as the deputy director at either the FBI or CIA in an effort to strengthen the president's control of the intelligence community.
33% : He published a memoir last year -- "Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy" -- and has authored two works of children's fiction that lionize Trump.
22% : Shortly after Trump left the White House in January 2021, Patel launched Fight with Kash, an organization that funds defamation lawsuits and sells a wide variety of merchandise, including branded socks and water bottles, sweatshirts and baseball hats, a deck of playing cards with Trump as the cce and a bumbling Joe Biden in a jester costume as the king.
18% : During an interview with Steve Bannon in December, Patel said he and others "will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media," over the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

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