‘Incredibly harmful’: why Trump’s FBI and DoJ picks scare civil liberties experts
by Peter Stone in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6STRZ)
Ex-DoJ prosecutors fear loyalists Kash Patel and Pam Bondi will pursue Trump's calls for revenge on deep state' foes
By tapping two combative ultra-loyalists to run the FBI and the justice department, Donald Trump has sparked fears they will pursue the president-elect's calls for revenge" against his political foes and sack officials who Trump demonizes as deep state" opponents, say ex-DoJ prosecutors.
Kash Patel and Pam Bondi, who Trump has nominated to run the FBI and DoJ, respectively, have been unswerving loyalists to Trump for years, promoting Trump's false claims that his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden was due to fraud.
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