Opponents of President-elect Donald Trump are shocked by his Cabinet picks. Trump choosing Matt Gaetz as the attorney general, Pete Hegset as the secretary of defense and Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence has not gone down well with his critics who accuse the new picks of inexperience besides many other shortcomings.Trump’s short-lived former first-term communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the president-elect’s personnel selections were purposely meant to “own the liberals.” Paraphrasing Trump’s intent, he added: “‘Let’s pick some triggering people.’ And those are the triggering people.” Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman agreed, telling CNN’s Manu Raju of the Gaetz selection: “It’s just kind of like a god-tier, kind of trolling, just to trigger a meltdown.”Trump seems to be choosing his most loyalist persons for top jobs so that he is not undermined by his own associates as it had happened in many cases during his first term. However, many think since Trump projects himself as an outsider who will shake the establishment and "drain the swamp" in Washington, these picks will be helpful to him.The power elite in Washington is wary of another Trump loyalist whose name was being bandied about for the head of the CIA: Kashyap "Kash" Patel. Trump has already named his close ally John Ratcliffe as the CIA head. However, Patel is also said to be in the running for the top job at the FBI. His potential appointment to top intelligence agencies set off alarm bells in the intelligence community, NBC said. Some career officials had feared that Trump would name Patel as the CIA director, CNN reported."A protege of former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) who led efforts to discredit the Russia investigation, Patel came to be viewed as a political mercenary in Trump's war against the intelligence community," Axios has written about him. "The former Pentagon official would be considered for a top national security job in the next administration, possibly even running the CIA or NSC."How Kash Patel caught Trump's attentionA 44-year-old lawyer, Patel's final job in the previous Trump administration was that of the chief of staff to acting secretary of defense Christopher Miller. Before joining the Justice Department, Patel began his career as a public defender, trying scores of complex cases ranging from murder, to narco-trafficking, to complex financial crimes in jury trials in state and federal courts, according to his Penatgon biography.Patel was born in New York to Gujarati-origin parents who had immigrated to the US from East Africa. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Richmond before returning to New York to earn his law degree. He is a life-long ice hockey player, coach, and fan.Three years after he joining the Justice Department, Patel was hired as a staffer for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence led by Rep. Devin Nunes, a fierce Trump ally. Nunes gave Patel a job running the committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. Patel helped author what has become known as the “Nunes Memo,” a four-page report that detailed how it said the Justice Department had erred in obtaining a warrant to surveil a former Trump campaign volunteer.The memo caught Trump’s attention, and soon Patel was working on the National Security Council and would later serve in increasingly important roles. He was briefly the top adviser to the then-acting director of national intelligence and was tapped in November 2020 to be chief of staff to acting defense secretary.At the end of his first term, Trumo had wanted to make Patel the deputy CIA director but the head of the agency, Gian Haspel, reportedly opposed the move for Patel's lack of experience. "Patel had virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency,” Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr wrote in his memoir.Why the intelligence community is scared of PatelPatel has radical views about the intelligence community in the US which he has expressed in a book, "Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy". Trump has said Patel's book will be the blueprint for his next term. “A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People… we will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!” Trump had remarked."A sinister cabal of corrupt law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, and military officials at the highest levels of government plotted to overthrow a president," the blurb of the book says. "Even after they failed, they continue to secretly pull the levers of power without any accountability to the American people. This isn’t the synopsis of a fictional spy thriller. This is what is actually happening in the United States government.""Government Gangsters" calls for a "comprehensive housecleaning" of the Justice Department and an eradication of "government tyranny" within the FBI by firing "the top ranks" and prosecuting "to the fullest extent of the law" anyone who "in any way abused their authority for political ends". "[T]he FBI has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a threat to the people unless drastic measures are taken," Patel claimed in his book.On a podcast two months ago, Patel said anyone involved in "Russiagate" should be stripped of their security clearances, ABC News reported. According to Patel, there is a "massive" list of such government officials, from the FBI and Justice Department to the CIA and U.S. military. "They all still have clearances," including those who left government for private sector jobs, so "everybody" should lose their clearances, Patel said.As per the ABC News report, Patel said he has personally "recommended" to Trump that the new administration also strip any security clearances still held by the 51 then-former intelligence officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA director John Brennan, who in October 2020, just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, signed onto a letter dismissing the public release of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop as part of a "Russian information operation."In another recent podcast, about FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. -- where more than 7,000 agents, analysts, administrative personnel and other employees work -- Patel said that the new Trump administration should "close that building down", ABC News reported. "Open it up the next day as the museum to the Deep State," he added.Patel said the FBI should then leave about 50 people from its staff somewhere in Washington to help keep the agency running, and send the thousands of other employees into the field to join the 16,000 employees already there.During an interview with Steve Bannon in December last year, Patel said he and others “will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media,” over the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden. ”We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” he said. “We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly. We’ll figure that out. But yeah, we’re putting you all on notice.”(With inputs from agencies)