John Bolton compares Kash Patel to Stalin's right-hand man after Trump's FBI nomination
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Former national security adviser John Bolton compared Kash Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's head of the secret Soviet police, in a statement to NBC.
"Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be his Lavrenty [sic] Beria," the statement read. "Fortunately, the FBI is not the NKVD [People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs]." Andrea Margolis is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Readers can send story tips to andrea.margolis@fox.com.
"The Senate should reject this nomination 100-0," Bolton added.
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