FACT SHEET: Information on Kash Patel Ahead of Senate Confirmation Hearing for the Position of Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 

President Trump has nominated Kash Patel—a political activist with no relevant law enforcement experience—to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A fierce Trump loyalist, Patel has pledged to annihilate the so-called “Deep State” (i.e., Trump’s political opponents and civil servants who opposed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election). His pledge, if put into action, would be an unprecedented, dangerous, and disturbing departure from the FBI’s core mission “to protect the American people and uphold the U.S. Constitution” but in keeping with Trump’s threat of retribution against his perceived enemies.