In a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, foolish Democrat senators tried to portray Kash Patel as a Trump lieutenant bent on scheming after all the bad things the FBI had caused for Trump and British citizens.
Progressives don’t want it pointed at them, so it’s no wonder they are concerned because the country has seen how the FBI has been used as a political tool.
The Federalist has written extensively about corruption at the FBI under the view of Democrats, including the gun-toting sun attacks on violent residents ‘ houses, the overreaching conquest of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house, and the tampering with the national election by hiding Hunter Biden’s incriminating computer.
Patel was referred to as a conspiracy theory and a Trump supporter by Democrats. They repeatedly asked him who he intended to do on Trump’s behalf and whether he would always say he did not follow a case, suggesting that it is both Trump’s and Patel’s intention to use the FBI.
” Any complaints made against me that I had apparently put political bias before the Constitution are hideously unjust,” Patel said. I will remind you that over 300,000 law enforcement officers have approved me to become the next FBI producer.
They had not mouth this much-repeated solution.
Whatever the circumstances, Democrat lawmakers put pressure on Patel to promise to keep the work of FBI agents who were tasked with the attempted Trump takedown.  ,
For instance, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., asked for specific privileges for those involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified records event, which was behind the Mar-a-Lago attack.
” You’ve committed that the FBI will not be politicized, but how’s your first check. Did you declare your intention to not allow the FBI agents to leave these studies while working with the special counsel’s business?
” Every FBI staff may be held to the overall similar regular, and no one will be terminated for event assignments”, Patel started to say.
Blumenthal abruptly interrupted a tough-guy present that he undoubtedly hoped would be aired in social media videos.
” I’m not going to take that truth, because if you can’t undertake that those FBI agents may be protected from political vengeance, we didn’t take you as FBI producer”.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Md., went three minutes over her allotted time, reading Patel’s words— usually out-of-context — from social media posts, his book, and media appearances, becoming increasingly frustrated and apparently near to upset tears.
Fully showboating, Klobuchar insisted on extra time, claiming her question was of great importance.
” Could he just answer the question”? Klobuchar said. ” If he said that the FBI headquarters, where they investigate cybercrime and terrorism, should shut down and open as a deep state — as a museum. Did he suggest shutting down the headquarters? I deserve an answer to that question. He has stated that the FBI’s headquarters should be shut down, and that he is requesting that position.
In later testimony, Patel was able to put this ridiculous claim about his statement into context.
It was intended to highlight the much stronger point I was actually making, which has been repeatedly proven. 38, 000 FBI employees. 7 to 500 FBI personnel are employed solely at the Washington Field Office in the Hoover Building. 11, 000 FBI employees work in the national capital region, according to Patel, if you slightly expand that area to include the national capital region.
” A third of the workforce for the FBI works in Washington, D. C.”, Patel continued. ” I am fully committed to having that workforce go out into the interior of the country, where I live, west of the Mississippi, and work with sheriff’s departments and local officers. And having one agent prevent one homicide, and having one agent in Washington prevent one rape, and I will do that over and over and over again, because the American people deserve the resources, not in Washington, D. C., but in the rest of the country”.
Patel repeatedly responded to questions and was promptly retorted with the words” You are not answering the question”!
Senators refused to accept the answers of a sworn witness and were among the highest elected officials in the country ( some with degrees in law and a command of the language ). By utilizing this time for their desperate attempts to flex their suddenly muted political power, they wasted the resources of the American people.
Maybe they can do some real work tomorrow.
Beth Brelje covers The Federalist’s elections coverage. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
