John Bolton, President-elect Trump’s former national security adviser, is warning that Republican senators will be judged harshly by history if they confirm Kash Patel as the next FBI director.
Patel, who has called for shuttering the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and firing its top ranks, is picking up a lot of early Senate Republican support and appears to be cruising toward confirmation.
But Bolton warns that GOP senators would make a huge mistake if they put Patel, a staunch Trump loyalist, atop the nation’s premier law enforcement agency.
Bolton, who was familiar with Patel’s work at the National Security Council (NSC) during Trump’s first term, says he didn’t fully realize years ago how much of a “threat” Patel posed to the Constitution and country because of his willingness to place loyalty to Trump above all else.
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