The report claimed that Trump and White House aides have confided to allies that the president is weighing to remove Patel from the top post and considering top FBI official
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Leavitt said Trump and Patel were in a meeting when the report came out and that the president reacted to it by laughing.
The White House on Tuesday denied a report by MS Now which claimed that US President Donald Trump was considering removing Kash Patel as director of the FBI in the coming months. The report, based on inputs from three unidentified people, stated that Trump and his administration officials had grown increasingly frustrated by the unflattering headlines Patel has generated, Reuters reported.
The report claimed that Trump and White House aides have confided to allies that the president is weighing to remove Patel from the top post and considering top FBI official Andrew Bailey as his replacement.
