Why Kash Patel is Trump’s 'scariest hire yet': report

01 December 2024

One of Donald Trump's staunchest supporters — former chief of staff to the Secretary of Defense and conspiracy theorist Kash Patel — has been nominated by the president-elect to direct the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).

According to a Sunday, December 1 Rolling Stone report, the ex-Trump administration official might just be the MAGA leader's "scariest hire yet."

Per the report, Patel is aiming to "purge the so-called 'Deep State,' and "recently publicly pledged to investigate and prosecute Trump’s enemies in the media and government."

The New York Times reports that the Trump ally's "former colleagues have questioned his qualifications," such as federal public defender Michael Caruso, who said "Patel shied away from filing motions that he was likely to lose."

Patel also launched a nonprofit, The Kash Foundation, that he says "offers financial help to a range of recipients, including the families of people charged for their" participation in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Additionally, Rolling Stone notes, the potential future FBI director "is a hyper-MAGA, vengeance-minded Trump loyalist to the point that even some Trump advisers recognize as an extreme liability — even if those aides and confidants aren’t willing to do much to get in Patel’s way, mostly due to Trump’s protection of the man."

Rolling Stone's full report is available at this link (subscription required). The New York Times' report is here (subscription required).

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