{"id":427255,"date":"2024-12-02T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=427255"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Trump-taps-Patel-as-FBI-director-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Trump-taps-Patel-as-FBI-director-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps Patel as FBI director nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kash Patel to be his new FBI director.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Patel will replace President Joe Biden&#8217;s FBI director, Christopher Wray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to announce that Kashyap \u201cKash\u201d Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cKash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and \u2018America First\u2019 fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patel, 44 and a longtime Trump supporter, is an attorney, former U.S. National Security Council advisor, and senior advisor to the director of National Intelligence. He also served as chief of staff to the U.S. Secretary of Defense in the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kash Patel to be his new FBI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}