Kash Patel, President Trump's nominee for FBI director, arrives to speak during an inauguration event at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shake hands during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, last August.

With Pete Hegseth confirmed by the narrowest of margins as this nation’s secretary of defense, President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to stock his cabinet with fringe conspiracists kicks into high gear this week as the U.S. Senate holds hearings on the nominations of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next secretary of health and human services, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, and — last but certainly least in quality — Kash Patel as FBI director.

This editorial board has weighed in on Mr. Kennedy’s potential next chapter, noting that his affection for junk science makes him uniquely unfit to lead an agency that protects lives through the formation and........

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