Timothy Noah/December 3, 2024
The Who’s Who on Kash Patel’s Crazy Enemies List
Trump’s pick to run the FBI has already made it known who he plans to persecute if he gets confirmed.
“We will go out and find the conspirators,” Patel
said last year on Steve Bannon’s podcast, “not just in government, but in the media.… Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out.”
Who are these conspirators? In his 2022 book,
Government Gangsters, Patel names them; they number 60. President Donald Trump has nominated for FBI director someone who compiled and publicized his very own enemies list. As a public service, I append Patel’s entire list to the end of this article.
Patel doesn’t literally call his list, which appears as an appendix in
Government Gangsters, an enemies list; more blandly, he calls it “Members of the Executive Branch Deep State.” But “deep state,” in the context of Trumpworld grievance, is no neutral term. In the book, Patel calls the deep state “a cabal of unelected tyrants” and “the most dangerous threat to our democracy.”
The Who’s Who on Kash Patel’s Crazy Enemies List
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