Here's how the Trump loyalist might try to eliminate the so-called 'deep state.'
Here's how the Trump loyalist might try to eliminate the so-called"deep state."Kash Patel, former chief of staff to the defense secretary, speaks on the day Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally, in Prescott Valley, Arizona, Oct. 13, 2024.
At the time, he had high hopes that a probe by special counsel John Durham, who was appointed under the first Trump administration to scrutinize the Russia investigation, would ultimately produce a wave of indictments. Separately, a law firm working for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign hired a private investigator, former British spy Christopher Steele, to conduct opposition research on Trump, and Steele compiled a series of reports withKash Patel, former chief of staff to the defense secretary, speaks on the day Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally, in Prescott Valley, Arizona, Oct. 13, 2024.
Through its own investigation, the Justice Department's inspector concluded that while there were "fundamental errors" and significant "failures" in the FBI probe, the investigation itself was reasonably opened based on the information the FBI had received. Current FBI Director Cristopher Wray, who was nominated by Trump at the start of his first administration and would now be replaced by Patel, has been frequently mentioned. So have former FBI Director James Comey, who Wray replaced after Trump fired him, and Comey's former deputy, Andy McCabe.
"I don't know that it ever gets to the level of treason singularly with any of them, but what you have is a build-up of so many actions by the deep state that it becomes borderline treasonous," he said of officials from both the Obama and Trump administrations. MORE: Kash Patel tells members of media, government: 'We're going to come after you' in Trump's 2nd term
"We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government but in the media," Patel said on Bannon's podcast last year. "Yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig the presidential election, we're going to come after you." "He has to get more creative," Patel said. A conspiracy case "can be brought anywhere any part of the conspiracy occurred, so if some guy moved through southwest Utah for a split second, you can bring the whole case there," Patel claimed.
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