Patel, a former DOJ lawyer and Hill staffer, served in top roles at end of Trump's first term. Lately he's vowed to go after 'deep state' bureaucrats

Donald Trump tapped Kash Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist to lead the chief US law enforcement agency — which the president-elect has long derided as corrupt.

Kash Patel, former chief of staff to the defense secretary speaks on the day Republican presidential candidae and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally, in Prescott Valley, Arizona,

WASHINGTON—Donald Trump has chosen Kash Patel to be Federal Bureau of Investigation director, moving to force out the bureau’s current leader, Christopher Wray, before the end of his 10-year-term in favor of a fierce loyalist who has promised to upend the nation’s premier law-enforcement agency.

US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a former aide, Kash Patel, to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency the nominee has often criticised. A former US defence department chief of staff in the first Trump administration,

Patel is known as a diehard Trump loyalist who has echoed the president-elect’s grievances — and his threats — against the intelligence community.

President-elect Trump named Kash Patel to serve as director of the FBI in his new administration. In a statement, Trump called Patel a "brilliant lawyer."