President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he chose Kash Patel to serve as his next FBI director, signaling that he plans to terminate current FBI Director Christopher Wray’s 10-year term early.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised Patel, a Trump loyalist, former senior adviser to the director of national intelligence, and a favorite of the MAGA base, as a “brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter.”