Patel’s appointment as FBI director sparks mixed reactions over possible release of Epstein list

“President Trump will officially fire Christopher Wray as FBI Director and replace him with Kash Patel. Kash Patel is about to expose and dismantle the entire Deep State and I hope he doesn’t stop! Trump border czar Tom Homan wrote. “This is a great victory for the United States!”

Others celebrated what could be Patel’s first step in revealing who had been involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking crimes. Epstein was found dead in his cell of an apparent suicide before he could be found guilty. Epstein’s victims find themselves in the middle of a lawsuit against the FBI for an alleged cover-up.

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“I look forward to working with Kash Patel as FBI Director to release Epstein’s flight logs and black book,” wrote Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). “Under the Trump administration, the American people will get answers.”

Epstein’s case is comparable to that of rapper Sean Combs, who faces similar charges that some have speculated could be in Patel’s sights. It is speculated that a countless group of celebrities are involved.

“Our new FBI Director Kash Patel has promised to release Epstein’s client list and Diddy’s party-goer lists,” the Libs of TikTok account wrote. “No one in Hollywood sleeps peacefully tonight…”

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Others were disappointed with the announcement and disappointed with Patel’s credentials. Among his critics was former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who appeared in CNN Newsroom Saturday night.

“This is a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI and also for the nation that depends on an independent, professional and highly functional Federal Bureau of Investigation. The fact that Kash Patel is deeply unqualified for this job is not even a topic of debate,” McCabe said. “The installation, or appointment, I guess we should say at this point, of Kash Patel as FBI director can only be a plan to disrupt, dismantle, distract the FBI and possibly use it as a tool for the president’s political agenda.”

“It’s very problematic,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) said on the same show. “And in his own words, Mr. Patel has made it very, very clear what he believes he will do to the press and to his political opponents. “It is a very dangerous, very, very dangerous path that Trump is putting us on.”

The Atlantic editor Tom Nichols appeared in Ayman On Saturday he also described the appointment as “dangerous.”

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“When it comes to the danger to our democracy, Patel is as dangerous as they come, not because he is a true believer in anything, but because – and I would recommend that people take a look at an article we had on him in the Atlantic “He doesn’t believe in anything except serving Donald Trump, except, you know, his own self-interest,” Nichols said. “Because the other thing that says putting Patel in there, it says that the FBI is no longer in the law enforcement business. “It is certainly not in the counterintelligence business, something our enemies will be very happy to hear.”

Patel would replace Christopher Wray, who began his role in 2017. FBI directors have a tradition of serving 10-year terms. Patel would be the office’s ninth director.