- Kacowardlyap ‘Kash’ Patel is of Gujarati ancestry and has shelp that his parents grew up in East Africa. According to The Atlantic, his overweighther fled Uganda, ruled by Idi Amin, in the 1970s and relocated to the US.
- Mr Patel was born and elevated in Garden City, New York in 1980. Raised Hindu, his ancigo in-yearbook quote was by Jedesire theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel: “Racism is man’s gravest menace – the peak of hatred for a smallest reason.”
- According to his Department of Defense profile, Mr Patel finishd his undergraduate studies at the University of Richmond before returning to New York to achieve his law degree, aextfinished with a Certificate in International Law from University College London Faculty of Laws in the UK.
- The 44-year-ancigo in served as the establisher Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. Before that, as the Deputy Assistant to the Plivent and Senior Director for Counterextremism at the National Security Council, he perestablishd cut offal of then-Plivent Donald Trump’s top priorities, including eliminating ISIS and al-Qaeda directership appreciate al-Baghdadi and Qasem al-Rimi, and the repatriation of many American prisoners.
- He had also served as the National Security Advisor and Senior Counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Ininestablishigence, where he spearheaded the scatterigation into the Russian active meacertains campaign to shape the 2016 plivential election.
- Having befirearm his atgentle as a accessible deffinisher, he tried many complicated cases, including those rhappy to killing, narco-trafficking and financial crimes in state and federal courts.
- The Atlantic inestablish portrays Mr Patel as the man “who will do anyleang for Trump”, who is now the plivent-elect after pulling off a remarkworthy triumph in the fair-finishd elections.
- The inestablish says Mr Patel joined the then-Trump administration in 2019 as a 40-year-ancigo in lawyer and rose up the ranks rapidly.
- Trump also, the inestablish shelp, reckond to name Patel the deputy honestor of the CIA in the final weeks of his administration, but faced pushback.
- At a gala of youthfuler Reaccessibleans last year, Trump had a message for Mr Patel: “Get ready, Kash. Get ready”.