All through his profession, Patel has been embroiled in controversies associated to Trump’s numerous authorized challenges.
He appeared in 2022 earlier than the Washington grand jury investigating Trump’s withholding of labeled paperwork at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida after receiving immunity for his testimony.
The well-known conspiracy theorist additionally testified at a Colorado court docket listening to associated to Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election within the run-up to the violent January 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
Patel, who on the time of the riot was chief of employees to the then-acting protection secretary, testified that Trump had pre-emptively approved 10,000 to twenty,000 troops to deploy days earlier than the assault.
A Colorado court docket later discovered that Patel was “not a reputable witness”.