FROM DAILY MAIL: FBI Director Kash Patel has secured public backing from the White House and the Justice Department, but insiders admit tensions were high in the early hours of the manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s assassin.
And, as former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey begins a new role Monday as co-Deputy FBI Director alongside Dan Bongino, those same insiders tell the Daily Mail that the unprecedented move is less about shoring up Patel and more about signaling Bongino’s days are numbered.
‘Do I think Dan is going to stay? No,’ one government insider told the Daily Mail. ‘But Kash isn’t going anywhere.’
The decision to create a new deputy slot and install Bailey — a onetime contender for the FBI’s top job — has fueled chatter that he may be primed for an eventual promotion.
Daily Mail news sources say that the real story is that Bongino is ‘halfway out the door’.
Meanwhile, both the White House and DOJ say they have no plan to fire Patel and that Bailey was hired to bring on new leadership at the FBI.
Any suggestion that I was brought in to replace anyone in leadership at the FBI or spin my appointment into a sign of division, is simply false,” Bailey said.
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