During the confirmation hearing for Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC ) criticized the Steele dossier, a discredited document crucial to the Russia investigation of President Donald Trump.
On Thursday, Patel appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Republicans and Democrats pressed him for a challenging question and he received a comfortable welcome.
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In his opening remarks, Patel alleged that he was a victim of the justice system’s use of weapons and promised to make sure that no one has to face a politically inspired research or prosecutors if it is proven otherwise.
Graham repeatedly asked Patel if he was acquainted with the knowledge society’s investigations into possible links between Trump and the Russian state during his 2016 presidential campaign, and he constantly hit on that topic during his first line of questioning.
Are you aware that the FBI had a lot of information about the Steele report being a bunch of cows ***, and no one ever told anyone at the bottom? Graham said in one change.
Channels of the receiving failed to delete Graham’s use of profanity.
Graham wasn’t the only senator to pray during the Patel experiencing. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA ) dropped an emphatic f-bomb while reading an email sent by Peter Strzok, a former FBI agent overseeing the 2016 Trump-Russia investigations.
” Do you recall when the IG revealed another message by Mr. Strzok to his partner”?, Kennedy read. ” Mr. Strzok said, quotation,’ I am riled up. Trump is a stupid idiot. He’s unable to provide a clear truth.’ Close of quote”.
Trump’s White House press briefing, which details the federal response to Wednesday night’s dangerous aircraft crash outside Washington, D.C., good spooked Federal Communications Commission moderators on Thursday.
” Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a true winner”, the senator said, wile attempting to shift responsible for the fall onto the past president’s policies. ” Do you know how hard things work since he’s run the Department of Transportation? He’s a crisis. He was a crisis as a president. He ran a capital into the earth, and he’s a crisis today. He’s only got a nice collection of nonsense”.
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You can watch Patel’s reading in complete below.
