FILE - Kash Patel speaks to reporters in a park across the street from former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick to be the director of the FBI, arrives to speak at an Inauguration parade in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

FILE - Kash Patel, former chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, speaks at a rally in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, Pool, File)

FILE - Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the director of the FBI, walks between meetings on Capitol Hill, Dec. 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

FILE - Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick to be the director of the FBI, arrives to speak at an Inauguration parade in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

FILE - Former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)