Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton worries that Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), will seek retribution once he is sworn in.
Trump stripped Bolton of his security clearance on the grounds he profited from the disclosure of sensitive information published in a book he authored.
The President also rescinded Bolton’s taxpayer-funded security detail, which he enjoyed under Joe Biden.
During a recent interview, Bolton said: “Loyalty is a virtue, it’s a good thing. That’s not what Trump wants.”
“He wants fealty to him. He wants submissiveness. He wants yes-men and yes-women,” he added.
“Kash Patel has demonstrated, in his service in Trump’s first term, that he’ll simply do whatever Trump wants.”
“I don’t think he’s qualified. And if there is a retribution campaign, and there certainly seems to be, he would be a central element of it.”
“I think that’s dangerous,” the former White House National Security Advisor added.
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bolton even compared Patel to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s chief of the secret police, Lavrentiy Beria. “Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be his Lavrenty [sic] Beria,” he wrote. “Fortunately, the FBI is not the NKVD [People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs].”
Bolton also claimed that removing his protective details is part of a larger effort to target Trump’s critics.
“There’s only one interpretation that makes any sense. It was political. And this is part of an effort at retribution,” the staunch neoconservative argues.
Last year, Patel said he would “shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one and reopen the next day as a museum of the deep state.”
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