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Kesh Patel was an adviser to the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense during Trump's first term.
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he plans to appoint a person loyal to him as head of the FBI - former National Security officer Kesh Patel. This is reported by the Reuters news agency.
In this way, the newly elected leader of the country plans to get rid of the current director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, whose mandate should expire only in 2027.
Patel, who served as an adviser to the director of national intelligence and defense secretary during Trump's first term, has previously called for the FBI to be stripped of its intelligence-gathering role and to purge its ranks of any employee who refuses to support Trump.
He also criticized the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Patel also criticizes the actions of government agencies, which are allegedly "unfairly directed against Republicans."
