Donald Trump wants to put a MAGA fanatic and “deep state” conspiracist named Kash Patel in charge of the entire Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Patel has been brazen in announcing his intention to weaponize the FBI against government officials, journalists, nonprofit groups, and the American people.

He also seems to think we’re all idiots.

In a recent Senate hearing on how he could possibly be fit to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency, Patel claimed not to be familiar with a far-right podcaster who promotes antisemitism and white supremacism — even though he has been on the man’s podcast eight times.

But hold on, we’re just getting started:

• Last week, we found out that Patel has served as a paid agent of the nation of Qatar and failed to identify himself as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

• He also took $25,000 from a Russia-linked firm to appear in anti-FBI propaganda.

• And he admits he owns up to $5 million worth of stock in a gigantic and controversial Chinese company — which he says he will refuse to give up even if he becomes FBI director.

Look, whenever we talk about the FBI, we must acknowledge that as an institution it has a long history of discrimination, corruption, and brutality.

Putting Kash Patel in charge of the FBI would be to double down on that shameful history and would be a direct threat to the American people and our national security.

The Senate will vote on Patel’s nomination very soon.

Many Republican senators — even though they know better — will rubber-stamp Patel’s nomination in groveling fealty to Donald Trump. But the Republican majority in the Senate is wafer thin. We have to try to get 51 senators to reject Kash Patel for FBI director.

To every United States Senator:

Kash Patel’s previously undisclosed work on behalf of the Embassy of Qatar, massive holdings (that he refuses to sell) in a Chinese company, and other foreign entanglements raise even more red flags about his ability to operate ethically and within the best interests of U.S. national security. For the sake of the American people and all of our safety, do not confirm Patel as FBI director.

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- Lisa Gilbert & Robert Weissman, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen

P.S. As we fight to block Trump’s dangerous and unqualified nominees for essential roles throughout the federal government, some people ask what happens if we defeat one person and Trump nominates someone else just as bad or even worse. The answer is simple: we fight that person too, and the one after that, and the one after that. What we don’t do — what we absolutely will not do — is throw up our hands and give in.
 
 
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