Kash Patel: how Trump's FBI pick went from public defender to provocateur

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Trump would have to oust the current FBI director, Christopher Wray, whom he appointed in 2017 and who was supposed to remain in the post until 2027.
44% : Patel also played a role in several legal investigations into Trump.
43% : He wrote a book called Government Gangsters, part memoir and part screed against the deep state, and children's books that lionise Trump.
37% : He denied allegations that he ran a clandestine backchannel to Trump regarding Ukraine.
37% : What worries me most is his blind allegiance to Trump and willingness to do anything for him.
33% : Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI who served there for 25 years, said: "I am getting calls from people primarily at headquarters who are saying as soon as Trump won the election, they realised they were in for a destructive period for the institution regardless of who got nominated.
29% : She was far from alone in raising concerns over Patel's inexperience, extremism and subservience to Trump.
27% : Trump has appointed as the head of the FBI someone whose agenda is to destroy the FBI.
26% : "If Trump gets his way, crazy will now be coming to the FBI, the 116-year-old national security and law enforcement agency charged with protecting the US from terrorism, cybercrime and other threats.
22% : "Trump, who will be sworn in next month, has teed up a cabinet of disrupters and extremists tainted by scandal.
11% : He was part of a small group of supporters during Trump's recent criminal trial in New York who accompanied him to the courthouse, telling reporters that Trump was the victim of an "unconstitutional circus".
9% : The former attorney general William Barr wrote in his memoir that, when Trump tried to appoint Patel as deputy director of the FBI, Barr told another official that it would only happen "over my dead body".

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