Kash Patel

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kash Patel

• His parents belong to the Gujarati ancestry who grew up in East Africa.

• They moved to America through Canada in the 1970s due to the brutal regime of Idi Amin in Uganda.

• He wanted to become a doctor while growing up.

• During high school, he worked as a caddy at the Garden City Country Club in Long Island, New York.

• He met many lawyers while working as a caddie and found the profession interesting.

• According to him, a guidance counsellor in college informed him about the difficult and long path towards becoming a doctor which made him interested in becoming a lawyer.

• After completing law school, he worked as a public defender in Florida’s Miami-Dade County and later as a federal public defender.

• He worked on various cases ranging from murder and narco-trafficking to complex financial crimes as a public defender.

• He has worked as a federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and led investigations which resulted in the prosecution of members of various terrorist organisations including Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

• He has worked with several counterterrorism units in America as a Liaison Officer for the DOJ to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to conduct operations against several terrorists.

• He withdrew his participation from the ‘Singles for Switchboard Annual Bachelor Auction’ after his expired bar license was noted by a blogger in 2014.

• In 2016, he helped Republicans during the FBI’s investigations into a connection between Donald Trump‘s campaign and Russia.

• In 2018, the American daily newspaper, The New York Times claimed that Kash Patel was the main author of the ‘Nunes memo,’ a memo written for U.S. Representative Devin Nunes by his staff accusing the FBI of being politically motivated to obtain an arrest warrant against Donald Trump’s advisor, Carter Page.

• In 2020, American newspaper The Wall Street Journal claimed that Kash Patel led a negotiation mission secretly in Syria for the release of psychotherapist Majd Kamalmaz and journalist Austin Tice.

• In November 2020, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper was fired after Kash Patel claimed that he had betrayed Donald Trump by not deploying military troops to end protests caused by the murder of George Floyd.

• During the investigation of the 6 January United States Capitol attack, he claimed that Donald Trump had authorised 10,000 to 20,000 troops to deploy days before the attack. The Colorado court later found him as not a reliable witness.

• In 2021, American President Donald Trump proposed the name of Kash Patel for his appointment as a leader of either the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) or CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).

• He believes in deep state conspiracy theory which claims that some members of the federal government and members of financial and industrial sectors work together with the American government to exercise their powers.

• In 2022, he started a tax-exempt charity, ‘Fight With Kash’ to help people in need and to fight the ‘Deep State.’

• On 22 March 2022, he published a children’s picture book, ‘The Plot Against the King’ in which he represented himself as a wizard trying to save ‘King Donald’ from ‘Hillary Queenton.’

  

• In the book, he claimed that a controversial and unverified report titled ‘Steele dossier’ was used to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election in America.

• He signed 10 copies of the book ‘WWG1WGA’ (where we go one, we go all), the motto of QAnon, an American far-right political conspiracy theory and movement.

• He has served as a member of the board of directors in the Trump Media & Technology Group which owns the ‘Truth Social,’ a social media platform since April 2022.

• In October 2022, he was summoned by a federal jury to testify against Donald Trump and his act of taking presidential documents with him and not returning them after his term as President was over.

• In response, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and was granted immunity from testifying on 4 November 2022.

• On 24 January 2023, he published the book, ‘Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.’

  

• The book was praised by Donald Trump who called it a blueprint to end the reign of the Deep State.

• He produced the song, ‘And Justice For All,’ a rendition of the American national anthem which was released in March 2023.

• The song consists of Donald Trump reciting the pledge of allegiance to the American flag and the J6 Prison Choir, which is a group of about 20 people imprisoned for the attack on the Capitol on 6 January 2021, singing the national anthem of America.

• He appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast titled ‘War Room’ on December 2023 and claimed that if Donald Trump gets elected as president in 2024, he will prosecute people who helped Joe Biden ‘rig the presidential elections’ of 2020.

• In 2024, he promoted COVID-19 anti-vaccine pills that claim to be effective in reversing the effects of the Covid-19 vaccine.

• In 2024, he appeared on ‘The Shawn Ryan Show’ and claimed that he would shut down the FBI headquarters and reopen it the next day as a museum of the Deep State if Donald Trump came to power.

  

• In February 2025, he was appointed director of the FBI after winning the in-Senate elections 51-49.