A leading Republican senator who is in line to become the Senate Judiciary chairman said that President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the FBI, former national security official Kash Patel, must restore Americans’ confidence in the federal law enforcement bureau.
On Saturday evening, Trump announced nomination of Patel, who has backed the president-elect’s assertions about how government officials weaponized agencies against his administration.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who is set to become the Senate president pro tempore when Republicans take control of the chamber in January, wrote on social platform X that Patel “must prove to Congress he will reform [and] restore public trust in FBI.”…