The choice of Kash Patel for FBI Director by President-elect Donald Trump certainly has people on the left/anti-Trump folks flipping out, and maybe panicking.
Disgraced former FBI official Andrew McCabe threw a fit about it on CNN shortly after the nomination was announced. John Bolton lost his mind trying to bizarrely compare Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, one of Joseph Stalin’s chiefs of the Secret Police. Nate Sullivan humorously claimed that Joe Biden kept the FBI “insulated” from politics.
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John Bolton’s Slam of Kash Patel Proves That President Trump Picked the Right Man to Lead the FBI
When all the right people are attacking him, you know that he’s the right pick. The bottom line is they don’t want the reform hammer that Kash Patel would bring into the Bureau. Patel wouldn’t just sit on his hands, but will clean up the FBI and stop the weaponization.
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The meltdowns are glorious. During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was also not a happy camper.
🚨NEW: Jamie Raskin is not happy about the nomination of Kash Patel to head FBI —
— says ‘Deep State’ is made up — “just means anybody who doesn’t do the will of Donald Trump.”
“Apparently [Wray] has demonstrated too much independence and objectivity in the job for Donald… pic.twitter.com/lob05HZtnC
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 1, 2024
He claimed that the present FBI Director Christopher Wray had “demonstrated too much independence and objectivity in the job for Donald Trump,” and contended that Trump wanted more of a “personal loyalist in the position.”
CNN’s Kasie Hunt asked him about the concerns regarding weaponization. While Raskin admitted that the FBI had been weaponized in the past against Martin Luther King Jr., for example. But Raskin acted like there was no ongoing or more recent weaponization.
He said the Biden DOJ had gone after Democrats from New Jersey (Sen. Bob Menendez) and Texas (Rep. Henry Cuellar), as though that was an excuse. “I mean, the deep state. Nobody’s ever defined it, apparently. Just means anybody who doesn’t do the will of Donald Trump,” Raskin said.
So, any weaponization you thought you were seeing is just all in your mind, kids. The last several years didn’t happen. The Russia collusion and the lawfare against Trump never happened, nor did the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop.
But if what he’s saying is right, then he has no real reason to object to Patel.
If Patel wants to exorcise the “Deep State” and it isn’t there, no harm, no foul. What is he worried about?
The fact that Raskin supports Wray tells you why Wray should be gone. But further, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) explained the problem with Wray wasn’t his “independence” but that he was a failure, including in complying with oversight. He called for charting a new course for transparency and accountability.
Chris Wray has failed at fundamental duties of FBI Dir He’s showed disdain for cong oversight & hasn’t lived up to his promises It’s time 2 chart a new course 4 TRANSPARENCY +ACCOUNTABILITY at FBI
Kash Patel must prove to Congress he will reform &restore public trust in FBI
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 1, 2024
Democrats want someone like Wray who they’re cool with and who won’t do anything.
That isn’t Patel. Democrats are now finding out a new day is dawning and they aren’t going to stop it.
