Trump taps Kash Patel for FBI director

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-taps-kash-patel-fbi-director-rcna179736

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  2. How much time does the current one have on his 10-year term?

  3. Everyone knew this horrible shit show was coming.

    Kash’s head is so far up Trump’s ass he pretastes all Trumps food for poison.

  4. Patel’s nomination to head the FBI after pleading 5A makes a mockery of the concept of law and order. Isn’t that what 45 said about those who plead the 5th?

    edit: [For context](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-innocent-fifth-amendment/), during his 2016 campaign Trump said about Hillary’s staffers testifying about Benghazi: “If you’re innocent why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” Over the years, Trump has taken the Fifth himself.

  5. This guy is a nutcase. Will be a long four years watching from the outside the fiasco that will unfold in the US. Good luck.

  8. Look, I’m just gonna say it. I’m sorry of this ruffles some feathers but it needs to be said…I don’t think Trump is making very good picks here. Yeah, I said it.

  9. We’re currently watching a coup unfold right in front of our eyes. Holy crap!!!

  10. To quote the guy moving up…

    “I regularly used to tell people that the fastest way to move up in the government is to just screw up, and the bigger the screwup, the bigger the promotion. Every person implicated in your mistakes has an interest in covering up what they did, so they will promote you. That means the people at the very top are usually the most immoral, unethical people in the entire agency.”

    ― Kash Pramod Patel

  11. This guy is a J. Edgar Hoover level sycophant. Hold on to your butts.

  12. The career employees at the FBI need to stand up to what is happening. Whistleblower should go to the press and congress to report on what Trump is doing.

  13. Kash helped Trump cover up the docs case. He was at the center of the insurrection by withholding the national guard. He is the center of Trumps Fascism. Kash is an evil man who has no business leading the FBI. He will turn the FBI into Trumps secret police.

  14. This is a Russian decapitation strike: The ultimate insider threat scenario

  15. He’s not even president yet, and it still gets worse every day. If I was younger/had more money, I’d be out of this country so fast.

  17. Announced today to kill the Mom letter story no doubt. 

  20. “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media — yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’re going to figure that out — but yeah, we’re putting you all on notice,” Patel said.

  21. Pay attention: “It’s ridiculous. He’s arguably the least qualified person ever nominated for a senior position in federal law enforcement,” said a former senior law enforcement official who interacted with Patel. “I don’t know anything significant that he achieved at the DOJ. He was not well regarded as a prosecutor.”

    This is the classic authoritarian playbook: Reward loyalists who would otherwise never have a chance at a position like this. Keep people around you who are incompetent and thus owe all their success to you.

    Trump’s been reading the putin playbook.

  22. Seriously, everyone needs to contact their Senator to vote no.

  24. Trump must have literally laughed out loud with delight when this appointment was suggested to him.

    The next 4 years are going to be as disastrous as they will be amusing. A mixture of Shit and Clown show.

  25. This is very dangerous. Patel over the FBI and Hegseth over the military. Full fascist takeover.

  26. > In his memoir, Patel recounts how after law school he dreamed of landing a job with a law firm and a “sky-high salary” but “nobody would hire me.” Instead, he became a public defender in Miami.

    Oh, good. He’s fucking delusional *and* paranoid.

  27. More rampant cronyism…

    Another unqualified loyalist installed into a position of power where they can do the most damage possible.

    Patel once proposed closing the FBI headquarters and reopening it as a “museum of the deep state.”

    Patel has also proposed making it easier to sue journalists.

    He was aide to Devin Nunes of all people and authored the “Nunes Memo” which tried to discredit the FBI and the Russian investigation. Even though it was regarded as deeply biased, inherently flawed and contained “cherry picked facts,” it became widely accepted by the MAGA community.

    Patel claims that the steele dossier was used to initiate the Russia investigation, it wasn’t. In fact, the dossier appeared after the FBI first began it’s Russian probe. Patel even wrote a book about it titled *The Plot Against the King*.

    He was formerly appointed to the NSC, and it was noted by his colleagues that he was severely under qualified. Patel was accused of being a Ukraine policy back channel for Trump, even though he was assigned to counterterrorism.

    > Fiona Hill told investigators that it seems “Patel was improperly becoming involved in Ukraine policy and was sending information to Mr. Trump.

    Patel once argued that former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, was “disloyal to Trump” because he refused to send military troops to quell protestors.

    > After the November 2020 election, Patel reportedly blocked some Department of Defense officials from helping the Biden administration transition.

    In 2022, when Patel had to testify before a federal grand jury that was investigating the Trump classified documents scandal, he declined to answer every question by invoking the fifth amendment. He was also one of the proponents of the idea that Trump had unilateral powers to declassify all materials.

    That same year:

    > Patel created Fight With Kash, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charity, to raise donations for “helping other people” in need, though more specifically to bring “America First patriots” together and “helping fight the Deep State.”

    Patel has also supported the idea that Trump should seek vengeance against his political enemies.

    During an appearance on Steve Bannon’s podcast, he said the following:

    > We will go out and find the conspirators — not just in government, but in the media … we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections … We’re going to come after you. Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out. But yeah, we’re putting you all on notice, and Steve, this is why they hate us. This is why we’re tyrannical. This is why we’re dictators … Because we’re actually going to use the Constitution to prosecute them for crimes they said we have always been guilty of but never have.

  28. Why aren’t the normal people in government currently to sounding the alarm about all of this?

  29. This reminds of the movie Civil War where one of the things that the Prez did that created a divide in the country was dismantle the FBI. At the end they shot him…

  30. The same Kash Patel who, it has been suggested, went and got all those boxes of the highly classified documents for you to take to Mar-a-lago? That Kash Patel?

  31. Regular reminder: he isn’t even inaugurated yet.
    The shitshow hasn’t even started. You have your tickets, but you’re not even in the foyer, you’re still out in the parking lot finding a spot.

  32. Kash Patel couldn’t pass a standard FBI background check.

  33. I don’t know man if trump and his acolytes can be so verbose, classless and morally corrupt, I’m feeling like what can me and my boys get away with? Then my wife hit me with, honey your black.

  34. We reap what we sowed. Trump should have been in prison long long before he had a chance to try and (successfully) win. This is the timeline we deserve

  37. How the fuck can someone who has never been an FBI agent be in charge of the FBI. This is a giant fuck you to the people who dedicated their lives to the FBI and especially the ones who risk their lives in the field.

    How can any Republican be ok with this.

  38. People need to understand a violent purge is coming. First political enemies, then us. Please take this seriously

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