(1980-02-25) February 25, 1980 (age 44) Garden City, New York, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Education
University of Richmond (BA) Pace University (JD)
Kashyap Pramod "Kash" Patel (born February 25, 1980)[1] is an American attorney and former government official. He served as a U.S. National Security Council official, senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense during the Trump presidency.[2][3][4] A member of the Republican Party, Patel previously worked as a senior aide to congressman Devin Nunes when he chaired the House Intelligence Committee.[5] He was previously a federal public defender, a federal prosecutor working on national security cases, and a legal liaison to the United States Armed Forces.[6]
Patel has widely been described by news organizations as a "Trump loyalist."[7][8][9] As an aide to Congressman Devin Nunes, Patel played a key role in helping Republican attempts to fight the investigations into Donald Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.[10][8]
^Ciralsky, Adam (January 22, 2021). "Embedding with Pentagon Leadership in Trump's Chaotic Last Week". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
^Lippman, Daniel (February 20, 2020). "NSC aide who worked to discredit Russia probe moves to senior ODNI post". Politico.
^"Reports: Trump aide Kash Patel offered immunity in Mar-a-Lago documents probe". USA Today. November 2, 2022.
^Katie Rogers; Matthew Rosenberg (February 2, 2018). "Kashyap Patel, Main Author of Secret Memo, Is No Stranger to Quarrels". The New York Times.
^Shinkman, Paul (November 12, 2020). "Trump's Pentagon Shake-Up Has Implications for Afghanistan". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
^"Trump loyalist Patel limits Biden transition access to Pentagon staff". NBC News. December 5, 2020. Archived from the original on February 19, 2021. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
^ abCite error: The named reference Feldscher_11/24/2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Swan, Jonathan (January 16, 2021). "Gina Haspel threatened to resign over plan to install Trump loyalist Kash Patel as CIA deputy". Axios. Archived from the original on April 15, 2021. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
^Youssef, Warren P. Strobel and Nancy A. (November 10, 2020). "White House National Security Council Aide Is Named to Top Pentagon Post". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on June 6, 2021. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
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