Meet the unqualified, right-wing sycophant who could soon be in charge of America’s top domestic intelligence and law enforcement agency.
On Saturday, Trump announced that he would appoint Kash Patel to be the next director of the FBI, sending “shockwaves through Washington” (technically, there isn’t even a vacancy as the current FBI director Christopher Wray, appointed by Trump in 2017, has three years left to serve on his 10-year term).
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe told CNN he believes Patel’s nomination is part of “a plan to disrupt, to dismantle, to distract the FBI, and to possibly use it as a tool for the president’s political agenda.” Former national security adviser John Bolton, who was once Patel’s boss in the Trump White House, even called on the Senate to “reject this nomination 100-0.”

