FILE - Kash Patel speaks to reporters in a park across the street from former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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., Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
FILE - With Kash Patel at background right, former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media with his attorney Todd Blanche at Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday, May 20, 2024 in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - Kash Patel, former chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, speaks at a rally in Minden, Nev., Friday, Oct. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, Pool, File)