Kash Patel Pick Speaks Volumes About Trump’s Agenda

Tom Nichols: “For Trump, naming Patel to the post serves several purposes. First, Trump is taking his razor-thin election win as a mandate to rule as he pleases, and Patel is the perfect nominee to prove that he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. Even knowing what they know, Americans chose to return Trump to office, and he has taken their decision as a license to do whatever he wants—including giving immense power to someone like Patel.” “Second, Trump wants to show that the objections of senior elected Republicans are of no consequence to him, and that he can politically flatten them at will.

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