Since the heavily redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit was released on Aug. 26, Trump loyalist Kashyap “Kash” Patel has been fuming that his name has not been concealed. The Indian American has taken to Trump’s Truth Social to blast the Department of Justice and declare that “Brown Lives Matter.”

According to news reports in The Daily Beast and Newsweek, Patel, former Pentagon official and longtime House Intelligence Committee aide, wrote that the inclusion of his name in the affidavit “marks another vicious attack from DOJ/FBI who intentionally jeopardized my safety by un-redacting my name in the most reviewed search warrant in the history of the United States,” he wrote, adding that the department is “on the line” for his security with their “dangerous” actions. “This same FBI has been investigating death threats made against me due to baseless political overreach by government gangsters and in their greed for political vengeance, have threatened my safety again,” he continued. “These gangsters are on notice.”

The affidavit cites statements Patel made to Breitbart in early May. “I am aware of an article published in Breitbart…which states that Kash Patel…characterized as ‘misleading’ reports in other news organizations that NARA [National Archives and Records Administration] had found classified materials among records that FPOTUS provided to NARA from Mar-a-Lago,” an FBI special agent on the case wrote in the affidavit. “Patel alleged that such reports were misleading because FPOTUS had declassified the materials at issue.”

Patel has emerged as a key figure in Trump’s transfer gate saga. He has been on every right-wing television and other broadcast media making the case for his former boss’s right to hold on to the documents. In an April 2021 profile in The Washington Post, columnist David Ignatius described Patel as an “almost a ‘Zelig’ figure in Trump’s campaign against the deep state.”

As noted in the affidavit, months before the subpoenas or reach warrants were issued, Patel was publicly making claims that Trump had the unilateral right to declassify material as president.

On June 19, Trump designated Patel to be one of his official representatives to the National Archives. In an Aug. 11 podcast with conservative journalist John Solomon, Patel also disclosed that he had led an effort to obtain documents through the National Archives months before the FBI’s raid. He said he and Solomon both have “been on a mission” as “the president’s representatives to the National Archives” to prove Trump had declassified the documents seized by the FBI

In several recent interviews, and in an episode of “Kash’s Corner” released on Aug. 14, he accused bureaucrats at the DOJ of blocking Trump’s attempt to declassify federal records. “The timing is interesting, that now all of a sudden there’s a National Archives issue related to this raid at Mar-a-Lago.” Patel has contended that among the seized files at Mar-a-Lago were documents connected to the FBI and DOJ’s investigation of contacts between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.

In June, Patel released a children’s book titled “The Plot Against the King,” which claims that “King Donald” was wrongly accused of cheating by a slug Keeper Komey and Hillary Queenton, and was saved by “wizard Patel” and “Duke Devin.”

Through the book, Patel perpetuates the lie about the FBI investigation into Trump-Russia collusion, blaming the probe on the so-called Steele Dossier. He refers to himself as “the wizard” who saved “King Donald” along with “Duke Devin” (Devin Nunes, former congressman, currently chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group).