Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s current Senior Advisor of National Security and Defense, former Chief of Staff at the United States Department of Defense, rallied a crowd last week at Trump’s campaign event in Las Vegas. During his address, he highlighted the corrupt political actors in Washington DC as “government gangsters” and vowed to “fight every single day” for the state of Nevada.

Partial transcript:

We are up against a behemoth. Just think about it. In the 21st century in the United States of America, did you think a political party would illegally spend campaign dollars to hire a foreign intelligence asset from overseas and funnel fake false information into the Federal Bureau of Investigation only to have them go to a secret surveillance court, lie to a federal judge, just so that they could illegally surveil their political opponent? And as the president says, ‘They’re coming after you. He’s just standing in the way.’

If you think those government gangsters have quieted down, you haven’t been paying attention.

Just last week, what did we hear from the Department of Injustice and Merrick Garland and Chris Wray? It’s ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ all over again. They’ve illegally surveilled 100’s of 1000’s of citizens. The government gangsters in Washington DC have one main operational arm: a two-tier system of justice that they choose to weaponize and politicize because we care more about America than they do. They fear the presidency of Donald J. Trump because during his first term, when I served under him, he was out there wiping out the corruption in Washington DC.

If he comes back, Donald Trump will permanently retire the swamp monster class. We are facing the biggest projection con artists of our lifetime with Harris and the radical left wing. They accuse us of every single thing they are doing.

They try to imprison our great leader illegally, time and time again. They raid our houses of worship. They tell us where our children can go to school and what they should learn. Well, I don’t know about you but I want our future generation know history, math, and economics. I don’t want them to know gender fluidity at the age of 10. We have the greatest leader. Donald J. Trump is our champion. He is our juggernaut of justice.

But, we have to martialize behind him because we have the truth. They don’t have that. Kamala Harris does not have a single national security policy that is better than President Trump’s. If she did, she would have implemented it four years ago instead of stealing his ideas. When it comes to national security, whether I was serving as a Deputy Director of National Intelligence or as Chief of Staff, the mission was simple. When I walked into the oval office, President Trump said, singularly, ‘We are going to kill the emirs of Isis. We’re going to wipe out Al Qaeda senior leadership. We’re going to end the forever wars.’

We will crush the narco traffickers. We will stop the CCP Fentanyl, and we will restore American diplomacy overseas. We will stop sending money to the forever wars. We will take care of our 55,000 homeless veterans first. Our men and women on the thin blue line come first. Our teachers come first. Our first responders come first. Our children come first. Illegal immigrants do not come first in this country. There is a legal way here.

My father fled a genocidal dictatorship and had the American dream for his children. That American dream is alive and well in Donald Trump’s America for each and every one of your children. That American dream is not alive under Kamala Harris. She wants to rob you of that dream, seize the truth from you, and establish a dynasty in Washington DC that tears apart this world.

Well, I want a president that goes overseas and ends the forever wars. I want a president that doesn’t fund the Iranian mullahs and $7,000,000,000 of terrorism-funding activities.

Who do you think the current hostages want? Do you think they want Kamala Harris? Or, do you think they want Donald Trump who rescued who rescued 54 hostages and detainees around the world? That is more than every president before him combined.

We will not allow the government gangsters to leave us a disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan. They desecrated our dead.

Donald J. Trump had an intelligence-based plan where I led the effort to withdraw out of Afghanistan. He said we are not setting a political timeline…our men and women are too important. Donald Trump had zero casualties during his withdrawal plan which we handed off, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lit on fire. Kamala Harris hasn’t even had the decency to call the families of the 13. Do you know how those 13 brave warriors died? Harris-Biden made the political decision to let terrorists out of Bagram Air Force Base and one of them strapped a suicide bomb to his vest and blew up our heroes.

Then they had Millie and Austin come in and thump their chest and drone strike seven children. That is not justice, that is murder.

Our mission is simple, just to do exactly what our brave leader Donald J. Trump has always done and put Americans first, and not to run this country by DEI, white rage and climate change.

I am proud to be an Indian American. I am proud to call Las Vegas my home. I moved out here after our administration ended. You all have welcomed me with open arms, and I cannot thank you enough. I will fight every single day for this great state.

As President Trump said, ‘if we win Nevada, we win the whole damn thing.’ I will take the fight to every state across this country for our great leader because Donald J. Trump deserves our effort, our love, our conviction, and our desire.

I am gonna go on a government gangsters manhunt in Washington DC for our great president. Who’s coming with me?

After his speech, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell told The Globe, “Kash Patel understands the America First movement like very few do. He’s a battle born, courageous leader who has fittingly made Nevada his home. I see him as a future Senator from Nevada.”

The next opportunity for Patel to run would be in 2028 against Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto who narrowly won her last two senate races. In 2022, Cortez-Masto secured her reelection by less than one percent against GOP rival Adam Laxalt, securing less than 50 percent of the vote.