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President-elect Donald Trump was wavering in recent days between two candidates to replace FBI Director Christopher Wray: Kash Patel and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, sources told CNN. Trump interviewed both Bailey and Patel at his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this month, and regularly talked to them by phone as he weighed his decision. “It came down to a matter of what Trump wants and what he was looking for in terms of an FBI director. And Bailey didn’t fit that mold, he didn’t have the personality,” one Trump adviser involved in the conversations told CNN. As of late last week, some close to Trump believed it was a “toss up” between Patel and Bailey as to who the president-elect would pick, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

Persons: Donald Trump, Christopher Wray, Kash Patel, Andrew Bailey, Trump, Patel, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Stephen Miller, Bailey, Trump wasn’t, didn’t Organizations: CNN, Department of Justice, FBI, Trump Locations: Missouri, Trump

Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, announced Sunday that he is entering the race to lead the national party. “I’m running for chair of the Democratic National Committee because we need to unite. Wikler joins a competitive — and likely growing — field, including New York State Sen. James Skoufis, former Maryland Gov. and Social Security Administrator Martin O’Malley, and Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin. Though Trump flipped Wisconsin earlier this month, he won by 0.8% — the thinnest margin of any swing state.

Persons: Ben Wikler, Donald Trump’s, “, Donald, Trump’s, ” Wikler, CNN’s Manu Raju, ”, Wikler, New York State Sen, James Skoufis, Martin O’Malley, Ken Martin, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris ’, what’s, CNN’s Antoinette Radford Organizations: Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Democratic National Committee, Democratic, Committee, New York State, Maryland Gov, Social, Minnesota Democratic, Farmer, Labor, Wisconsin Democrats, Trump, CNN Locations: Wisconsin

The popular host, also known as Lenard McKelvey, has millions of followers across digital platforms and “The Breakfast Club” reportedly boasts an estimated 8 million listeners per month, more than half of them Black. Harris will focus in part on the economy and address and identify obstacles to creating intergenerational wealth for Black Americans, a senior Harris campaign official tells CNN. “Our Black men, we gotta get them out to vote, that’s number one. Kamala’s opponent promised a lot of things last time to the Black community that he did not deliver on, and we gotta make sure we help Black men understand that,” Johnson said. Tomorrow, in Atlanta, entertainers Jermaine Dupri, Armani White and Isaac Hayes III will host “Brothas and Brews” to connect with Black men.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Harris ’, Joe Biden’s, Lenard McKelvey, Harris, don’t, Barack Obama, ”, “, ” Obama, Walz, Magic Johnson, ” Johnson, Jermaine Dupri, Armani White, Isaac Hayes, “ Brothas, Brews Organizations: Black Americans, CNN, Black, NBA, Lincoln University, Fort Valley State University Locations: Detroit , Michigan, influencers, Pittsburgh, Georgia , Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Flint , Michigan, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Georgia

For a time, Donald Trump would have made for an unlikely headliner at a cryptocurrency confab. As president, Trump declared bitcoin “not money” and criticized it as “highly volatile and based on thin air.” He cautioned that crypto assets helped facilitate illegal underground markets. “We have only one real currency in the USA, and it is stronger than ever,” Trump wrote on Twitter in 2019. Despite cryptocurrency’s troubling recent history and his own past reservations, Trump has fully embraced the hype and hopes of the nascent industry. The industry, in turn, has embraced Trump.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, bitcoin “, ”, ” Trump, Nashville —, Read Organizations: Twitter, United States, Biden Locations: USA, Nashville, United States, Wisconsin

Former US President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “not to believe the ‘fake news’” that his possible reelection would help Russia, the Ukrainian president’s press secretary said Saturday. The two also talked about the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine and “agreed in principle” to hold a joint meeting, he said. The phone call between Trump and Zelensky marked their first conversation since the former president left the White House, and came the day after Trump formally accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president. Trump’s newly minted running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, is a staunch critic of sending support to Ukraine. Trump on Friday said he “had a very good phone call” with Zelensky, while the Ukrainian president said he wished Trump “strength and absolute safety in the future,” and “noted the vital bipartisan and bicameral” US support for Ukraine.

Persons: Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky “, Serhiy Nikiforov, ”, Trump, —, ” Nikiforov, “, Ohio Sen, JD Vance, Zelensky, Germany — Organizations: Ukrainian, Trump, White, Republican, Ukraine Locations: Russia, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Moscow, Ukraine’s, United States, Germany, Kyiv

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