Trump picks loyalist Kash Patel to run FBI

President-elect Donald Trump wants the author of the book Government Gangsters' to bring the FBI to heel'

Donald Trump has tapped Kashyap Kash" Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist and deep state" critic to lead the federal law enforcement agency that the president-elect has long slammed as corrupt.

Patel, 44, has worked as a federal prosecutor and a public defender but rose to prominence in Trump circles after expressing outrage over the agency's investigation into whether Trump's campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. He has called for the FBI leadership to be fired as part of a drive to bring federal law enforcement to heel."