President-elect Donald Trump’s late-Saturday announcement he will replace the current FBI Director with agency outsider Kash Patel was mostly met with signals of support from leading Republicans, while those at odds with the former president voiced concern over the Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s top law enforcement and counterterrorism agency.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, turning to a fierce ally to upend America’s premier law enforcement agency and rid the government of perceived “conspirators.

“He’s absolutely unqualified for this job," Charles Kupperman, a deputy national security adviser during Trump's first term, told the Wall Street Journal. Patel is "untrustworthy," he said, and his nomination an insult. “It’s an absolute disgrace to American citizens to even consider an individual of this nature."