Trump Announces Kash Patel as FBI Director

• US President-elect Donald Trump plans to appoint Kash Patel as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

• Patel, a former advisor and Pentagon official, has been critical of the bureau and has controversial views on a government “deep state.”

• The FBI’s current director, Christopher Wray, was appointed in 2017, and has been investigating the incoming President.

• Trump praised Patel’s career for exposing corruption, defending justice, and protecting the American People.

• Patel supports the Republican idea of an anti-Trump “deep state” of biased government bureaucrats.

• Patel served in high-level posts during Trump’s first term, including as a National Security Advisor and Chief of Staff to the acting Defence Secretary.