According to Kash Patel, an Indian-American lawyer who granted an interview, the priorities of the president-elect, Donald Trump, include border security, the fight against terrorism, bringing home hostages, and ending the "forever wars.".
"He is the only president in modern history not to start a new one. If the initial indications after the election are any indication of how it's going to be, it's going to be a very peaceful process. He had a phone call with Vladimir Zelensky and already talked about winding down the Ukraine war. He has already discussed had phone calls with multiple world leaders," Kash Patel told Fox News in an interview.
An American attorney and former government official, Patel is the US National Security Council official, a senior adviser to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and the chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defence in the first Trump presidency. He is one of the closest confidants of Trump on national security and foreign policy.
He was answering a series of questions on the next Trump administration.
But what you have to do is what President Trump already did. It's no secret. Prioritise the collection of intelligence against our adversaries to make sure that we defeat the threats, which is the Iranian mullahs and the number one state sponsor of terror, and also make sure we keep in check the CCP (Communist Party of China) and our Russian adversaries from attacking our cyber infrastructure, said Patel.
But you can't do that if your intelligence communities are prioritized against climate change and DEI. President Trump made it clear the priorities are the border, terrorists, bringing home hostages and ending the forever wars, he said. I believe that mandate will carry.
I'll tell you what worked. I think it was a multitude of things. These full-on sanctions programs against the Iranian economy to suffocate the mullahs from making money. I don't think the president's going to fork over another seven billion dollars like Harris did to them so they can start another world war," he said.
"He is also going to meet with enemies on trade with Iran and organize a global coalition because we cannot do it alone to tackle Iran and make sure they do not do something we cannot allow them to do and that is to achieve a nuclear bomb, which they are perilously close to under the Biden-Harris administration, he said.".
These next 75 days are all crucial. Because Iran is going to hyperspeed what they're working on currently, knowing that Trump's coming in and knowing that his around-the-world are going to put Iran in check. "I think you're going to see that playbook again," he added.
Responding to a question, Patel said people lined up to serve this president as their commander-in-chief because they saw the power and wasp of him on the world stage without igniting the whole world into another world war. "He's not the war hawk that these people made him out to be. Proof is in the pudding. He had world peace. I think he'll do it again fast," he said.
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