Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent withdrawal as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general represented a significant early setback for Trump’s nascent effort to wreck shop in American government — and possibly seek his promised retribution against his political foes and the “enemy within.”

Trump has selected Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel can expect scrutiny not only over his professed fealty to Trump but also for his belief that the century-old FBI should be radically overhauled.

President-elect Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel to take over as FBI director — effectively firing current FBI Director Christopher Wray, who still has three years left in his 10-year term — has set off a firestorm on Capitol Hill.