Donald Trump is faced with the choice of a ‘Deep State’ conspiracy to run the FBI

Throughout his career, Patel has been embroiled in controversies related to Trump’s various legal challenges.

He appeared in 2022 before the Washington grand jury investigating Trump’s withholding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, after being granted immunity for his testimony.

The noted conspiracy theorist also testified at a court hearing in Colorado about Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the violent January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Patel, who was chief of staff to the then-secretary of defense at the time of the riot, testified that Trump had preemptively authorized 10,000 to 20,000 troops to deploy days before the attack.

A Colorado court later ruled that Patel was “not a credible witness.”