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In response to Donald Trump tapping Kash Patel as FBI Director, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump is dead set on defunding federal law enforcement and subverting our justice system to exact his agenda of revenge and retribution \u2013 which is why he wants an unfit MAGA loyalist like Kash Patel to run the FBI. Just like so many of Trump\u2019s Project 2025-linked picks, Patel is as dangerous as he is unqualified. Our law enforcement deserves better than an ill-equipped MAGA flunky who will put allegiance to Trump over the safety and security of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Donald Trump picked Project 2025-linked MAGA loyalist Kash Patel to be his FBI Director. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Popielarz, Spectrum News<\/a>: \u201cPresident-elect Trump nominates Kash Patel to be FBI Director, meaning he is looking to push current Director Chris Wray out before the completion of his 10-year term.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cPatel, a longtime Trump loyalist, is currently a fellow at the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank that is working closely with the Trump campaign on preparations for a second-term agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for Renewing America<\/a>: \u201cAuthor: Kash Patel\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025<\/a>: The Center For Renewing America Was A Member Of Project 2025\u2019s Advisory Board<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patel is unfit, unqualified, and a \u201c<\/strong>frightening<\/strong><\/a>\u201d extremist who would focus on Trump\u2019s revenge and retribution while stacking the FBI with loyalists like him instead of keeping Americans safe. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cEven among Trump loyalists, Patel is widely viewed as a controversial figure and relentless self-promoter<\/strong> whose value largely derives from a shared disdain for the so-called deep state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Kash is frightening at the bureau<\/strong>,\u2019 one source familiar with internal deliberations about the role of FBI director.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201c\u2018It\u2019s inconceivable<\/strong> to me that an outsider with no experience in the organization, no knowledge of the work and the scope of authority that\u2019s involved there could perform adequately<\/strong>,\u2019 [said Former Deputy FBI Director) McCabe […]\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on CNN<\/a>: \u201cNo part of the FBI\u2019s mission is safe with Kash Patel in any position of leadership in the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cAs President Donald J. Trump battled public outrage in the summer of 2019 over his effort to enlist Ukraine in digging up dirt on former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., he summoned a small group of top advisers to the Oval Office. Among them was Charles Kupperman, the deputy national security adviser, who was surprised to see a relatively low-level staff member in one of the four chairs arrayed before the president\u2019s desk: Kashyap \u2018Kash\u2019 Patel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018He wanted to make Kash a political executioner, to root out and fire individuals on the White House staff who weren\u2019t being as loyal as he thought they should be,\u2019 Mr. Kupperman said in a recent interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlarmed, Mr. Kupperman pushed back, as did Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, and John Eisenberg, the National Security Council\u2019s legal counsel, who were both there that day. All three said that loyalty tests would create legal and morale problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEventually Mr. Trump stood down. But Mr. Kupperman today sees the incident as a warning of Mr. Trump\u2019s intention to stock a second administration with people like Mr. Patel: valued more for subservience than expertise, and eager to pursue a vengeful president\u2019s whims.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Trump AG Bill Barr<\/a> on Patel in the first Trump administration: \u201cPatel had virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patel has pushed for gutting the FBI and \u201c<\/strong>clos[ing]<\/strong><\/a>\u201d the building during a second Trump administration. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201cLast year, as Donald Trump’s reelection bid was underway, he declared that a new book by his fiercely loyal adviser Kash Patel would serve as a \u2018blueprint\u2019 for his next administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018This is the roadmap to end the Deep State\u2019s reign,\u2019 Trump said of the book on his Truth Social media platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTitled \u2018Government Gangsters,\u2019 it calls for a \u2018comprehensive housecleaning\u2019 of the Justice Department and<\/strong> an eradication of \u2018government tyranny\u2019 within the FBI by firing \u2018the top ranks\u2019 <\/strong>[…]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpeaking on Thursday’s podcast about FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. — where more than 7,000 agents, analysts, administrative personnel and other employees work — Patel said that the new Trump administration should \u2018close that building down.\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Open it up the next day as the museum to the Deep State,\u2019 he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPatel said the FBI should then leave about 50 people from its staff somewhere in Washington<\/strong> to help keep the agency running, and send the thousands of other employees into the field to join the 16,000 employees already there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cPatel has been open about what kind of changes he\u2019d pursue if given the chance. His various proposals include reducing the FBI\u2019s footprint in Washington and \u2018dramatically\u2019 limiting its authority.<\/strong> He hopes to curb the power of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division and jettison a Pentagon office that produces classified assessments of long-term trends and risks, arguing it is just a tool of the \u2018deep state.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patel has threatened the free press and has said he would \u201c<\/strong>come after<\/strong><\/a>\u201d both the media and Trump\u2019s political opponents. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201c\u2018We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media,\u2019 said former Defense Department official Kash Patel during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018We’re going to come after you whether it’s criminally or civilly,\u2019 Patel said of Trump’s political foes. \u2018We’ll figure that out.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cPatel was ultimately denied a role at the pinnacle of the national-security establishment, but Trump has promised to learn from his mistakes. Should he return to the White House, there will be no Milleys, Haspels, or even Barrs to restrain him as he seeks revenge against his political enemies. Instead, there will be Patels\u2014those whose true faith and allegiance belong not to a nation, but to one man.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump wants to defund law enforcement \u2014 just like he tried to do every year in office as murder rates skyrocketed \u2014 and is pressuring his MAGA minions to do the same. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sahil Kapur, NBC News<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump pressures Republicans to defund the (federal) police.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSNBC<\/a>: \u201cTrump joins other Republicans in pushing to \u2018defund the FBI\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Allen, NBC News<\/a>: \u201cWhen Trump was president, he proposed slashing federal funding for local police forces.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Street Journal<\/a>: \u201cThe [Trump] administration\u2019s 2021 budget, like all its previous budgets, recommended eliminating the Community Relations Services and Community Oriented Policing Services and placing their functions under other parts of the department to \u2018improve efficiency.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump is defunding the police\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump has repeatedly proposed cuts in federal funding for police, criticized landmark legislation that boosted financial support for police departments, and is currently involved in blocking legislation that would greatly reduce pressure on local governments to cut police funding. In layman\u2019s terms, he\u2019s been trying to defund the police.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cFBI: 2020 homicides up nearly 30%, largest 1-year jump ever\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>: \u201cThe Council on Criminal Justice, a D.C.-based research group, found that homicides in 21 American cities were up 32% between March and October compared with 2019. And some analysts believe 2020 could record the largest-ever single-year increase in murders in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Trump has repeatedly threatened violence against his political opponents, vowed to go after the \u201cenemy from within,\u201d and pledged to be a dictator on \u201cday one\u201d of his new administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI think the bigger problem is the enemy from within \u2026 totally destroying our country <\/strong>\u2026 [I]n terms of Election Day, I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they\u2019re the big \u2013 and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by [the] National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can\u2019t let that happen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN<\/a>: \u201cMany people have lost American presidential elections over the last 230 years – Trump is the only one to say about violence if he loses \u2018it depends.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says He\u2019ll Be a Dictator on \u2018Day One\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump declines to rule out abusing power to seek retribution if he returns to the White House\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump says he will lock up his political enemies if he is president again.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump says \u2018war hawk\u2019 Liz Cheney should be fired upon in escalation of violent rhetoric against his opponents\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cSomebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don\u2019t mind that<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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