Donald Trump chooses Kash Patel for the FBI and Chad Chronister for the DEA

US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former aide Kash Patel to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency that Patel often criticizes.

A former chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Defense in the first Trump administration, Patel has been a steadfast supporter of the incoming Republican president.

For Patel to take the job, current FBI director Christopher Wray would have to resign or be fired — even though Trump did not call for him to do so in his office.

Additionally, Trump said he plans to nominate Chad Chronister, the sheriff of Florida’s Hillsborough County, to head the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Patel and Chronoster join Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi in filling out Trump’s law enforcement picks.

Also on Saturday, Trump announced he had chosen Charles Kushner as ambassador to France.

Mr. Kushner is a real estate developer and the father of Jared Kushner, the husband of his daughter Ivanka Trump.

The nomination appears to be the first administration position Trump has officially offered to a relative since being re-elected.

All three options will have to be confirmed by a majority vote in the US Senate.

Patel is a Trump loyalist who shares the president-elect’s distrust of government institutions.

“Kash was an outstanding attorney, investigator and ‘America First’ warrior who spent his career exposing corruption, upholding justice and protecting the American people,” Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform, adding that Patel is “an advocate for truth, accountability and the constitution”.

His previous proposals include “significantly” limiting the powers of the FBI. In his memoir, Government Gangsters, Patel called for eliminating what he called “government tyranny” in the FBI by firing “the highest ranks.”

Patel will replace current FBI director Christopher Wray, who Trump appointed in 2017 to a 10-year term.

But Wray did not support the president-elect when the FBI supported the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified records, One case was dismissed.

In a statement after Trump’s announcement, the FBI said: “Every day, FBI agents continue to work to protect Americans from an ever-evolving array of threats.

“Director Wray’s focus remains on the men and women of the FBI, the people we work with and with whom we work.”

The son of Indian immigrants, Patel is a former defense attorney and federal prosecutor who caught Trump’s eye after he became senior adviser to the House intelligence committee in year 2017.

He was hired by Trump as a national security assistant in 2019 and a year later was appointed chief of staff to the Pentagon chief.

In addition to his 2023 memoir, he has published two pro-Trump children’s books.

One of the titles, The Plot Against the King, is about a villain, Hillary Queenton, trying to bring down King Donald, who is aided by a witch named Kash, the brilliant Explorer.

According to the book’s blurb, another villain is named Keeper Komey – a reference to former FBI Director James Comey – and his “spy slugs”.

Patel has frequently criticized the so-called “deep state,” which some Americans believe is an unelected bureaucracy that secretly runs the country for sinister purposes.

Patel also criticized the media, which he called “the most powerful enemy the United States has ever seen.”

He also sits on the board of Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns the incoming president’s social media platform Truth Social.

Patel reportedly had a consulting contract with the company that paid him at least $120,000 a year.

Chronoster also has a long background in law enforcement.

According to his official biography, he has worked in law enforcement in Florida for 32 years and has served as the top law enforcement official in Hillsborough County, Florida, since 2017.

On social media, Trump praised Chronoster’s experience and reiterated his focus on drugs and the US border.

“As DEA Administrator, Chad will work with our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to secure the border, stopping the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs,” Trump wrote. across the southern border and SAVE LIVES.”

Writing on social media, Chronicle said being nominated by Trump was “the honor of a lifetime.”

“I am deeply humbled by the opportunity to serve our country.”