President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday he would pick Kashyap 'Kash' Patel, a 44-year-old loyalist with little management experience in federal law enforcement, to serve as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
Just one week after Donald Trump won a second White House term, the president-elect announced that he wanted then-Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as the next attorney general. This was, of course, utterly insane: The Florida congressman wasn’t just manifestly unqualified, he was also burdened by devastating scandals and a lengthy criminal investigation into alleged sex trafficking.
While casual observers might see this as somehow routine — presidents get to pick members of their team — the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation isn’t a member of the White House cabinet. On the contrary, FBI directors serve 10-year terms, overlapping presidential administrations, to prevent the kind of politicized abuses that Trump is eager to engage in.
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