Tag Archives: Kash Patel

CNN reports: Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the FBI, was recently informed by the bureau that he had been targeted as part of an Iranian hack, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Hackers are believed to have accessed at least some of Patel’s communications, according to one of the sources. Trump transition spokesman Alex Pfeiffer …

The Daily Beast reports: During Sunday’s broadcast of a state TV show The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov—a program that Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly watches on a regular basis—host Vladimir Solovyov rejoiced about Trump’s picks. “What an excellent team is coming along with Trump! Not with respect to Ukraine, but as far as everything else goes. If they are allowed …

Mother Jones reports: At the end of Trump’s first presidency, when he was a Pentagon official, he spread the bonkers idea that Italian military satellites had been employed to turn Trump votes to Joe Biden votes in the 2020 election. Moreover, Patel has been supportive of the most loony conspiracy theory in MAGA land: QAnon. In early 2022, when he …

The Hill reports: “Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be his Lavrentiy Beria,” Bolton said in a statement to NBC News’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday. “Fortunately, the FBI is not the NKVD. The Senate should reject this nomination 100-0.” Beria was appointed by former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin as deputy chief of the Soviet secret police. He …

“It’s a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI and also for the nation that depends on a highly functioning, professional, independent Federal Bureau of Investigation. The fact that Kash Patel is profoundly unqualified for this job is not even like a matter for debate. “So I think what we should really be thinking about right now …

CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he intends to nominate Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, in an extraordinary announcement that once in office Trump would move to replace the current director, Christopher Wray, before his term expires. Wray has three years remaining in his 10-year term and would have to resign or be fired to create …

CNN reports: Donald Trump is weighing a push from right-wing allies to nominate Kash Patel to lead the FBI, one of the clearest indications the president-elect plans to stick by his vow to fire Director Christopher Wray before his 10-year term ends and replace him with a loyalist. Even among Trump loyalists, Patel is widely viewed as a controversial figure …

NBC News reports: FBI Director Christopher Wray and Donald Trump’s team are planning for the possibility that the president-elect will replace Wray during the new administration, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News. One person under consideration for Wray’s job is Trump adviser Kash Patel, who is also being considered to lead the CIA, according to two other …

“I saw him most importantly, more than anything, invoke the Constitution when it came to the national command authority and execute the mission, the no fail mission of the United States of America and the Department of Defense to secure our freedom so they can print whatever they want. “And we could talk about the Vanessa Guillén again story. I …

Mediaite reports: Protestors shouted down former President Donald Trump’s gaggle of supporters on Monday as they tried to defend the former president outside his hush money trial. Former Trump Pentagon official turned children’s book author, Kash Patel, could be seen speaking into the microphones set up outside the courthouse while protestors shouted comments like “Stop kissing ass” and loudly blew …

Mediaite reports: Kash Patel, who served as chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense in former President Donald Trump’s administration and is widely expected to be tapped for a national security role in a prospective second term, is hawking pills that claim to reverse the effects of the Covid vaccines. In a Truth Social post over the weekend, …

Mediaite has the transcript: STEVE BANNON: Do you feel highly confident that when as a senior member of this administration – President Trump’s administration starting in the afternoon of the 20th of January of 2025 – do you feel confident that you will be able to deliver the goods that we can have serious prosecutions and accountability? And I want …

The Hill reports: Former Trump administration aide Kash Patel on Wednesday denied claims that President Trump chose not to call up the National Guard during the Jan. 6 attacks or delayed efforts to approve their deployments in testimony he provided in the former president’s 14th Amendment case in Colorado. Patel, who was the chief of staff to acting Defense Secretary …

“You have to have a real committee, like the Watergate Committee, like the Pearl Harbor commissions, like the 9-11, like the financial meltdown of 2008. You have to have a formal one. Like I’m arguing in appeals court that this was not a real committee because you didn’t have a ranking member and you didn’t have minority counsel. I’m gonna …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump’s political action committee is paying legal bills for some key witnesses involved in the Justice Department investigation into whether Trump mishandled classified documents, obstructed the investigation or destroyed government records, according to people familiar with the matter. The witnesses include Kash Patel, who has testified in front of the grand jury and …

The Washington Post reports: Kash Patel, a loyal aide to Donald Trump and former White House deputy, faced questions before a grand jury Thursday as part of a criminal investigation into the former president’s possession of classified records more than 18 months after he left office, according to a person familiar with the matter. National security prosecutors asked Patel about …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Kash Patel, a close associate of former President Donald Trump, is set to soon testify before a federal grand jury probing the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after receiving immunity for his information, people familiar with the matter said. A federal judge recently decided the Justice Department couldn’t force Mr. Patel to testify without …

The Guardian reports: The Justice Department is weighing whether to grant immunity to the Trump adviser Kash Patel and force his testimony about claims that highly sensitive government documents the FBI seized from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort were declassified, according to sources familiar with the matter. The status of the documents has emerged as relevant to the criminal investigation …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE BANNON (HOST): What word of advice would you give to leadership in the House in the next two weeks and then after they take power? KASH PATEL (GUEST): What I’m going to remind these people of that we’re sending to Washington — the Laxalts, the Blakes, the J.D.s, and everybody else — is that …

Fox News reports: The impeachment inquiry against President Trump has triggered a wave of charges, countercharges, court battles, subpoenas and legal threats. Now it has produced its first libel suit. A White House official on Monday sued Politico and one of its reporters over stories and tweets that he says falsely accuse him of “lying, deceit and unethical conduct.” Kash …