President Donald Trump is expected to appoint the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, as an actor in the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, said familiar sources with the ABC News affair .
An official of the Ministry of Justice told ABC News that Patel should be sworn as an acting director at the start of next week.
The candidate of the director of the FBI Kash Patel makes gestures as he goes on stage to speak during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.
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The White House did not respond to a request for comments.
This decision comes after the Atfi Pam Bondi prosecutor dismissed the ATF lawyer General Pamela Hicks at the end of last week. Bondi said on Friday, said in an interview with Fox News that it was because the agency’s main lawyer “was targeting firearms owners”.
Kash Patel is sworn in as director of the FBI by the Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Indian Treaty Hall in the building of the Eisenhower Executive Office on the White House campus in Washington, on February 21, 2025.
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ABC News contacted Hicks to comment.
The ATF, which is responsible for regulating sales and recordings of firearms in the United States, has long been a target of the Republicans on what they support is the encroachment of the government on the rights of the second amendment.
The Attorney General Pam Bondi goes to the west wing of the White House, on February 21, 2025, in Washington.
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Earlier this month, Trump published an executive decree asking Bondi to examine the actions to resolve the right to keep and carry arms and present a plan in the White House after 30 days. In one of its first service notes signed after its confirmation, Bondi asked the ATF to move the resources of its alcohol and tobacco weapons to help the efforts of the Doj to fight against illegal immigration and the transnational criminal groups.
