Donald Trump Picks Indian-American Kash Patel As FBI Director. Here's What May Happen Next
Kash Patel is a controversial figure even among Trump loyalists and has proposed a set of radical reforms in the FBI.
US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Indian-American Kash Patel as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, positioning a loyalist in one of the most important offices in his push against illegal immigration as he assumes the presidency next month.
Trump praised Patel as the “America First fighter" and said that he would stop the rising human and drug trafficking across the US borders. Patel, a former National Security Council staffer, would replace Christopher Wray as FBI chief, who was appointed by Trump in 2017, however, fell out of favour with the president before his 10-year term.
Patel, 44, has been vocal about his ambition to reform the FBI. In an interview on the conservative Shawn Ryan Show, he outlined bold proposals, including dismantling the agency’s intelligence-gathering operations and repurposing its headquarters.
Who is Kash Patel?
Kashyap Pramod Patel, also known as Kash Patel, was born in New York on February 25, 1980, to Gujarati immigrant parents from East Africa and pursued a career in law. In the first Trump administration, he held key positions at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Defence Department and has called for a “comprehensive housecleaning" of the Justice Department and the FBI.
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