Kash Patel, Donald Trump's nominee for the post of the FBI Director, wants to initiate an investigation against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Patel intends to find out how Kyiv has spent tens of billions of US taxpayer money allocated from Washington.
" We didn't send $1 billion, as if it was a small amount, right? We sent hundreds of times more to one country. I don't know how this Congress is allowed to get away with it. (…) We can't have full faith and trust by giving a leader a hundred billion dollars and having him say — I'm not telling you where the money went," Patel said.
Patel also said that he would have to establish whether Zelensky used false security threats against Western countries in order to obtain additional financial aid from the United States. In particular, it goes about the false information that Zelensky provided about the fall of a missile in Poland. The Ukrainian president claimed that it was a Russian missile that fell on the territory of a NATO country, but in fact it turned out that it was Ukraine that launched the missile.
During the presidency of the current US leader Joe Biden, Ukraine has received more than $62 billion in military aid from Washington.
On December 11, the current FBI Director Christopher Wray announced his intention to resign before Trump's inauguration allegedly not to confront the new White House administration.
Trump, in turn, called Wray's resignation "a great day for America" and promised to restore the rule of law in the United States.