Kash Patel sent a letter to subordinates at the FBI prior to being sworn in as FBI Director on Friday afternoon. 

He stated that among his top priorities is to “rebuild the American people’s trust in the FBI.”

“I am honored to have been nominated and confirmed as your new Director,” the letter obtained by Fox reads.

“While I’m new to the Bureau’s ranks, I’ve spent my career in government service and the past decade in national security, working shoulder to shoulder with the FBI and many of its partners throughout the law enforcement and intelligence communities. My commitment has always been — and always will be — to pursuing justice and upholding the rule of law, and I look forward to continuing that commitment alongside all of you.”

Patel reportedly described keeping Americans safe as a “no-fail mission.”

“As I take on this new role, my priorities for our organization are twofold. First is to provide you with the tools and resources you need to keep our communities safe. This will include streamlining our operations at Headquarters while bolstering the presence of field agents across the nation and collaborating even more closely with our essential partners in state and local law enforcement,” he told FBI employees.

“Second is to ensure we rebuild the American people’s trust in the FBI. We’ll do that by committing ourselves to full transparency with the people’s representatives in Congress and by upholding the highest standards in all that we do, ensuring rigorous obedience to the Constitution and a single standard of justice for all.”

“I know that you, the dedicated men and women of the FBI, are courageous warriors of justice,” he continued.

“I will always have your backs, because you have the backs of the American people. I look forward to serving with you in the years to come.”

This will be a huge step up from Biden’s highly politicized FBI and FBI Director Chris Wray’s targeting of innocent Trump supporters, pro-lifers, Christians, and concerned parents at school board meetings. This is perhaps President Trump’s most consequential nomination to be confirmed by the Senate.

Patel made similar remarks during his swearing-in ceremony on Friday.

WATCH:

Patel: To the Senators and the men and women of the United States House of Representatives, you placed an enormous trust in me, an enormous leap of faith, one that I didn’t know that I could possibly earn back, but I’m going to spend every single day on this job doing so. The fact that you placed the confidence you did in me has inspired me to reach new heights at this job. I promise you the following: There will be accountability within the FBI and outside of the FBI, and we will do it through rigorous constitutional oversight starting this weekend.

I know the media’s in here, and if you have a target, that target’s right here. It’s not the men and women at the FBI. You’ve written everything you possibly can about me that’s fake, malicious, slanderous, and defamatory. Keep it coming, bring it on, but leave the men and women at the FBI out of it. They deserve better. 

And for those of you who think that there’s going to be a two-tiered system of justice, not with Attorney General Bondi. There’s a singular system of justice for all Americans, and there will be accountability. And the reason that this mission is so important is simply the following: 100,000 people last year raped, 100,000 people died of CCP fentanyl overdose and heroine, 17,000 homicides. Violent crime is out of control. We cannot have a United States of America where that is acceptable, where someone dies every 30 minutes or someone OD’s every seven, or someone’s raped every six. That cannot be allowed to continue, and it will not be allowed to continue.

Our national security mission is equally as important. Anyone that wishes to do harm to our way of life and our citizens here or abroad will face the full wrath of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And if you seek to hide in any corner of this country or any corner of this planet, we will put on the world’s largest manhunt, and we will find you, and we will decide your end state, not you. We will uphold the Constitution. We will uphold ourselves to the Constitution. The men and women at the FBI, I have your back because you have the backs of the American people.

You will be held to the same high standard. Any deviation from that standard will not be tolerated at this Federal Bureau of Investigation.The men and women at the FBI who make us safe deserve better, and they are going to get it with our leadership and your support. God bless America, and God bless every single one of you. I love this country.

MUST WATCH: Kash Patel’s full statement after being sworn in as FBI Director.

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 21, 2025

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3 people were killed in a shooting outside of a Louisville, Kentucky DMV on Friday afternoon.

The unidentified suspect(s) fled in a vehicle and are still at large.

.@WDRBNews Louisville Metro Police said it happened around noon at the Driver Licensing Regional Office on Dixie Highway just north of Interstate 265. pic.twitter.com/PtUTKBQPvL

— Stephan Johnson (@StephanWDRB) February 21, 2025

Authorities said the killing was a “deliberate act.”

One man was found dead in the parking lot and two other female victims were transported to a nearby hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Fox News reported:

Three people on Friday were shot and killed outside a Louisville, Kentucky motor vehicle office, in what authorities are calling a “deliberate act.”

The shooting took place at a driver’s license branch in the 6200 block of Willismore at around noon, the Louisville Metro Police Department (MPD) said.

When police arrived on the scene, they found one man shot dead in the parking lot.

Two women, who were also found with gunshot wounds, were taken to a nearby hospital and later succumbed to their injuries, the MPD said in a statement.

Louisville Metro Police Department Maj. Donald Boeckman told reporters that there was no ongoing threat to the public.

More on this story from KHOU 11:

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President Trump on Friday fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles “CQ” Brown and announced his replacement.

Trump nominated Air Force Lieutenant General Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

President Trump also said he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “to solicit nominations for five additional high level positions, which will be announced soon.”

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social:

I want to thank General Charles “CQ” Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family.

Today, I am honored to announce that I am nominating Air Force Lieutenant General Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Caine is an accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur, and a “warfighter” with significant interagency and special operations experience.

During my first term, Razin was instrumental in the complete annihilation of the ISIS caliphate. It was done in record setting time, a matter of weeks. Many so-called military “geniuses” said it would take years to defeat ISIS. General Caine, on the other hand, said it could be done quickly, and he delivered.

Despite being highly qualified and respected to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the previous administration, General Caine was passed over for promotion by Sleepy Joe Biden. But not anymore! Alongside Secretary Pete Hegseth, General Caine and our military will restore peace through strength, put America First, and rebuild our military. Finally, I have also directed Secretary Hegseth to solicit nominations for five additional high level positions, which will be announced soon. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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The left, with its usual hypocrisy, has once again shown its true face in the

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has a plan to go after Target, alleging its business practices hurt the states’ retirement fund.

Uthmeier posted a video to social media platform X on Thursday explaining why his office decided to take action.

Today, we filed a lawsuit against Target on behalf of the Florida State Board of Administration.

Target’s efforts to sexualize children caused its stock price to plummet, harming Florida’s retirement fund and putting the retirements of our teachers and first responders at risk: pic.twitter.com/UcZq3cSC3p

— James Uthmeier (@JamesUthmeierFL) February 20, 2025

Uthmeier explained his class action lawsuit was “for misleading shareholders and pushing a harmful leftist agenda at the expense of shareholder returners.”

“While Target told their investors, they would keep the company out of controversy to protect the stock price, the retailer engaged in a marketing campaign targeting and sexualizing children,” he said, adding, “You’ll remember Target promoted rainbow sports bras for boys, children’s swimsuits with transgender features, and books for kids that asked them to question their biological reality.”

Uthmeier then explained how this campaign hurt Floridians’ retirements as it caused massive losses for Target.

“This radical campaign predictably caused Target’s stock price to plummet, wiping out ten billion in market value in just ten days. And those losses put the retirement accounts of Florida’s teachers and first responders at unacceptable risk.

“Our public servants should not suffer diminished retirement security because companies focused on leftist virtue signaling rather than shareholder returns.” he stated.

The Orlando Sentinel reported, Florida is the first state to sue Target over its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives that created the “pride” campaign dating to the summer of 2023.

The Palm Beach Post highlighted the following from Florida’s filing:

“Target’s CEO Brian Cornell and its Board of Directors did not oversee or disclose the obvious risks of Target’s 2023 LGBT-Pride Campaign and the ESG/DEI initiatives which it advanced, but they told investors that they did

“In doing so, they deceived Target investors as to the true nature of the risks of their investments and caused them to unknowingly support Target’s board and management in their misuse of investor funds to serve its divisive political and social goals — and ultimately cost investors billions.”

Despite Target backing away from DEI as of last month, along with several other companies, their past is coming back to haunt them.

The New York Post reported at the time of the campaign the exact losses Uthmeier mentioned in his video.

Floridians worked hard to for their pensions and don’t want to see that money sacrificed at the altar of “pride” and DEI.

With the news that Florida is the first state to take action, what sort of precedent does this set for others?

Target is a massive company with plenty of other investors — state pensions or otherwise — that will feel inspired by Uthmeier’s work accompanied by the America First Legal Foundation.

The foundation’s press release can be read here, which includes a link to the lawsuit.

If other states were to take up a similar cause and file suit, Target might be looking at a day of reckoning.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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