Fact Check Analysis:

Reasoning:

• Kash Patel, Trump's nominee for FBI Director, received a $25,000 payment in 2024 from Global Tree Pictures, a film company run by pro-Kremlin filmmaker Igor Lopatonok¹²³.
• The payment was disclosed in financial documents submitted as part of Patel's nomination process for the FBI director position³².
• Lopatonok is a Ukrainian-born filmmaker with US-Russian dual citizenship who has produced numerous projects advancing pro-Kremlin narratives³¹.
• The payment was for Patel's participation in a six-part documentary series titled "All the President's Men: The Conspiracy Against Trump," which aired on Tucker Carlson's online network³²¹.
• In the documentary, Patel made statements including that Russia is not among the "true enemies" of the U.S. and promised to "shut down the FBI headquarters building and open it up as a museum to the deep state"³.
• Lopatonok has been associated with pro-Russian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of Vladimir Putin who was detained by Ukrainian authorities on treason charges³¹.

Overall validity: 95%

1. Kash Patel's ties to a Russian operation - by Olga Lautman
2. Kash Patel, From Russia With Love…and Cash - Mother Jones
3. Trump's pick for FBI chief took money from Russian propagandist, WP reports