▲ Kash Patel, former chief of staff of the Secretary of Defense, will be director of the FBI. In the image on the right, Sheriff Chad Chronister, future administrator of the DEA.Photo AFP and social networks
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La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, December 1, 2024, p. 19
Washington. The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, yesterday chose his loyal advisor Kash Patel as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Chad Chronister, former sheriff of Florida, as administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English).
The conservative magnate announced on his Truth Social network the nomination of Patel, a former Pentagon official known for his views on an alleged deep state in the government.
“Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and America First fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption,” Trump wrote. Patel played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia (sic) hoax in reference to the investigation into Moscow’s interference in the 2016 elections, which brought him to the White House.
The current director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, was appointed in 2017 for a 10-year term, meaning he will have to resign or be fired.
His removal is not unexpected, as Trump has long criticized him and the FBI, especially after federal investigations and the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence two years ago. searching for confidential documents that resulted in accusations that are now on the verge of being dismissed.
Son of Indian immigrants and author of a book about deep statePatel held several senior positions during Trump’s first term (2017-2021), including National Security Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense.
Kash will work for End the growing crime epidemic in the United States, dismantle criminal migrant gangs, and stop the evil scourge of cross-border human and drug trafficking. with Mexico. Separately, Trump announced that he has chosen Sheriff Chad Chronister to run the DEA.
Chad will work with our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to secure the border, stop the flow of fentanyl, and other illegal drugs, across the southern border, and SAVE LIVES (sic)wrote the Republican. Bondi will lead the Justice Department.
Trump also nominated his father-in-law, Charles Kushner, to be ambassador to France. Kushner, a real estate businessman, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and other crimes in 2004 and spent two years in prison, a sentence for which he was disqualified in three states, but Trump pardoned him in December 2020.
