Fight With Kash: Trump Loyalist Mythologizes Former President While Building His Own Brand

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "Trump wants an echo chamber and he'll get that in Kash Patel," he said.
52% : The campaign of Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican close to Trump, paid Patel $145,000 for "fundraising consulting" in 2021, campaign finance records show.
50% : A trusted aide and swaggering campaign surrogate who mythologizes the former president while promoting conspiracy theories and his own brand, Patel is poised to take on an influential role in the federal government if Trump wins a second term.
50% : The income from his books, clothing and endorsements is unknown, but his social media feeds show a well-traveled Patel attending high-end sporting events like the Super Bowl, Game 7 of the Stanley Cup and a UFC fight, in addition to stumping for Trump around the country.
50% : "During his CPAC appearance, Patel left no doubt about the depth of his loyalty to Trump.
49% : In his final months in office, Trump 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.
42% : He's also joined Trump in defending those who were charged with crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 riot, and is listed as a producer of "And Justice For All," a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner sung by a group of defendants.
40% : In addition to his 2023 memoir, "Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy," Patel has published two children's books that lionize Trump.
33% : Such lawsuits suggest a broader strategy pursued by Patel, Trump and others to file often meritless lawsuits that seek to grind down political opponents and journalists, said Mark Zaid, who has represented defendants in such cases, including one funded by Patel's charity.
31% : Getting behind Trump was the only way to root out "government gangsters," Patel said, at once referring to the title of his recently published memoir and the entrenched and shadowy cabal of "deep state" operatives he believes are threatening the country.
26% : "Shortly after Trump left office, Patel launched Fight with Kash, an organization that funds defamation lawsuits and peddles a wide variety of merchandise, including branded socks and water bottles, sweatshirts and baseball hats, a deck of playing cards with Trump as the ace and a bumbling Joe Biden in a jester costume as the king.
25% : There is little daylight between Patel and Trump: Patel has made it clear that he is in lockstep with the former president on most national security issues, including purging government officials deemed disloyal.
15% : After a day's testimony, Patel addressed a throng of reporters outside the courthouse, arguing Trump was the victim of an "unconstitutional circus."
14% : "Fight with KashIn Patel's telling, Trump is facing off in a do-or-die battle with Democrats and bureaucrats who helped steal the election, an assertion that has been rejected by federal and local officials, dozens of courts, top former campaign staffers and even Trump's own attorney general.
9% : Trump dropped those plans after CIA Director Gina Haspel threatened to resign and Attorney General Bill Barr argued against such a move.
6% : ""We're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections," Patel said, referring to the 2020 presidential election in which Biden, the Democratic challenger, defeated Trump.

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