Trump Reportedly Eyes Kash Patel for DEPUTY FBI Director, Sparking Conservative Backlash Over Mike Rogers as Potential FBI Director | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft


Trump Reportedly Eyes Kash Patel for DEPUTY FBI Director, Sparking Conservative Backlash Over Mike Rogers as Potential FBI Director

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Rumored Deputy FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Director Mike Rogers

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering Kash Patel, a staunch MAGA loyalist, for the role of Deputy FBI Director.

This comes amid rumors that Mike Rogers, a NEVER-Trumper former Republican congressman from Michigan and ex-FBI special agent, is being floated as a contender for FBI Director—a choice drawing significant pushback from Trump’s conservative supporters.

The current FBI Director, Christopher Wray, is expected to be replaced as President-elect Donald Trump and his team interviewed candidates who align more closely with his vision for the agency.

Vice President-elect JD Vance revealed in a now-deleted post on X that he missed a Senate vote on one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees because he was meeting with former President Trump to discuss filling key government positions, including the role of FBI Director.

“I tend to think it’s more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45. But that’s just me,” Vance wrote.

High on the list of potential replacements are figures such as Kash Patel, former Trump administration aide; Mike Rogers, former Republican Representative and ex-FBI agent; and Ken Paxton, the current Texas Attorney General, according to Newsweek.

However, recent reports from far-left CNN suggest that Trump is considering appointing Mike Rogers as the FBI Director and Kash Patel as the Deputy FBI Director.

The far-left news outlet reported:

Trump has considered one potential option: naming Mike Rogers, a former FBI special agent and former Michigan congressman who just narrowly lost a Senate race, as the FBI director, while putting Kash Patel, a controversial MAGA loyalist, in as the deputy FBI director, according to several familiar with Trump’s thinking.

The plan could please Senate Republicans concerned about Trump’s plans to disrupt the FBI — while also appeasing the MAGA orbit that has been frustrated about why more of their allies haven’t been placed into top jobs, sources told CNN.

Former Trump FBI deputy director and CNN senior law enforcement analyst Andrew McCabe said Thursday that Rogers would be a “totally reasonable, logical selection” to nominate to lead the agency, pointing to his knowledge of the intelligence community and his experience at the FBI. But McCabe cautioned against empowering Patel, saying on CNN’s “The Source” that “no part of the FBI’s mission is safe with Kash Patel in any position of leadership in the FBI. And certainly not in the deputy director’s job.”

“It’s inconceivable to me that an outsider with no experience in the organization, no knowledge of the work and the scope of authority that’s involved there could perform adequately,” McCabe, who Trump fired from his post hours before his retirement in 2018, said.

As his advisers know best, nothing is final with Trump until it is posted in his own words on Truth Social.

The MAGA base, which has been instrumental in Trump’s political resurgence, is making it clear that they view Mike Rogers as part of the establishment—and an unfit choice to lead the FBI.

Trump confidant Roger Stone strongly opposed the idea of Rogers’ appointment, stating, “The fact that corrupt former FBI official Andrew McCabe is for Mike Rogers for FBI Director tells you exactly why Donald Trump must NOT appoint Rogers. Only Kash Patel will clean house at the epically corrupt FBI,” Stone wrote.

Catturd, a widely-followed MAGA influencer, declared, “Make no mistake about it—if POS deep state Mike Rogers (Christopher Wray 2.0) gets any job in the Trump administration, I will go absolutely ballistic. If this happens, everything we worked so hard for and sacrificed so hard for is gone.”

Jesse Kelly, a conservative radio host, warned, “Putting Mike Rogers at the head of the FBI wouldn’t be bad. It would be catastrophic. The Cheka must be cleaned out by the next director, and Mike Rogers would view his role as protecting it.”

The Hodgetwins, prominent conservative commentators, stated, “If Trump picks Mike Rogers, we are screwed and our country will still be controlled by the deep state. If Trump picks Kash Patel, then we will have real accountability and our country will start to heal.”

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As TGP’s investigative reporter Patty McMurray reported earlier, this isn’t the first time Rogers has been considered for the top position at the FBI. In 2017, President Trump considered hiring Mike Rogers to replace the disgraced, fired FBI Director James Comey.

Instead of choosing the anti-Trump Rogers, he chose Christopher Wray, another Trump-hater. At the time, Rogers was endorsed by the FBI Agents Association.

In 2020, Rogers mocked President Trump for questioning the election results.

“By attempting to use the trappings of the Oval Office to influence state officials, he is violating norms of behavior and setting a dangerous precedent for the future — not just here, but internationally. American democracy must be about more than one person or one party, and right now the president should honor the office by acting accordingly,” Rogers wrote in an op-ed in Detroit News. 

He continued, “The reality for Trump is that he lost the election, and not just in Michigan. The 2020 election was perhaps the mostly closely watched in history.”

Recently, shocking comments by Rogers have resurfaced, exposing his allegiance to the security state.

Here is Mike Rogers joking about having Eric Snowden assassinated for exposing deep-state operations.

In this 2017 Harvard panel clip, is seen praising James Clapper, stating that Clapper “brought such gravitas to the job.”

Here is Rogers defending the warrantless surveillance of Americans.

Here is a compilation of Mike Rogers defending the warrantless of surveillance. Imagine, if he became our FBI Director.

Here is a video compilation of Mike Rogers trashing Trump for years.

I am at a loss for words that Mike Rogers is even being considered for the role of FBI Director.

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Jim Hᴏft
Jim Hᴏft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.

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