President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former National Security official Kash Patel to takeover the FBI. This could be Trump’s way of telling current FBI director Christopher Wray to pack his bags early, even though he’s not expected to leave for a few more years. Reuters reported on Trump’s nomination of Patel:
Patel, who during Trump’s first term advised both the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense, has previously called for stripping the FBI of its intelligence-gathering role and purging its ranks of any employee who refuses to support Trump’s agenda.
“The biggest problem the FBI has had, has come out of its intel shops. I’d break that component out of it. I’d shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state,” Patel said in a September interview on the conservative Shawn Ryan Show. And I’d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You’re cops. Go be cops.”
