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F.B.I. Pick Pushed False and Misleading Claims About Trump Investigations [1]

['Charlie Savage', 'Adam Goldman', 'Alan Feuer']

Date: 2025-01-23

Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I., has repeatedly undercut the work of the very agency he is set to lead by making false statements related to its criminal and counterintelligence inquiries into the president.

His demonstrably spurious claims, shared in podcasts and in his book, “Government Gangsters,” served to delegitimize the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, stoke baseless suspicions that the F.B.I. helped instigate the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol and muddy the waters of the inquiry into Mr. Trump’s refusal to return classified documents after leaving office.

Mr. Patel’s pattern of peddling misinformation is at sharp odds with Mr. Trump’s proposal to put him in charge of the nation’s premier agency charged with figuring out what is true.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Patel, Erica Knight, took issue with the basic thrust of this article, while making some further misstatements on his behalf.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/kash-patel-trump-fbi-inquiries.html

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