John Bolton held nothing back in his comparison of Trump's nomination of Patel to Stalin picking Lavrenty Beria as head of the Soviet secret police. The post John Bolton Compares Kash Patel to Stalin’s Secret Police Chief and Urges Senate to Unanimously Reject Him first appeared on Mediaite.

Former national security adviser John Bolton compared Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, to one of the former Soviet Union’s most feared secret police chiefs, Lavrentiy Beria.