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Ignoring Patel’s impressive background, Schiff painted Patel as untrustworthy and warned of dark days ahead. “But here’s the thing. I’ve worked with the FBI for decades, ever since I was a federal prosecutor. They’re the premier law enforcement agency. Only in Trump world, a world in which you pardon hundreds of people for beating police officers, and then you purge the FBI agents that pursued them, only in that kind of world does a Kash Patel become FBI director,” Schiff ranted, conveniently leaving out Biden’s own controversial pardons — including one for Leonard Peltier, a convicted cop killer.
Schiff lamented the current state of affairs, saying, “But that’s the upside-down, terrible world we’re living in at this moment. And Kash Patel has now been given a 10-year term as FBI director. I cannot imagine the damage that he can do if he’s given a decade to do it. And so we find ourselves in really uncharted waters. I think you’d have to go back to Herbert Hoover to find another FBI director so intent on using the powers of that position to go after president’s enemies.”
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The irony was thick. O’Donnell — seemingly forgetting the FBI’s years-long political witch hunt against Trump — warned of politicization under Patel: “And what we’ve also seen here, obviously, is now the politicization of that position, because it is inconceivable, if there’s a Democratic president sworn in four years from now, that that president wouldn’t immediately fire this FBI director.”
Schiff agreed, throwing in another gloomy prediction: “Yes, you know, we’ll — we’ll see whether this 10-year term, which was meant to insulate the office and allow an FBI director to go from one administration, continues serving into the next, a norm and more than a norm of practice that was changed when essentially, Chris Wray decided he needed to resign because it meant ultimate conflict with Donald Trump, and he felt that it was in the best service of the FBI not to continue as director.”
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Looking ahead, Schiff made it clear he sees no future for Patel in a Democrat-run White House: “Look, when Donald Trump is gone, there’s a Democratic president. I can’t imagine they’re going to want to keep on someone as destructive as Kash Patel. But I couldn’t imagine, frankly, that we would be in this place to begin with. So, we’re in uncharted waters.”
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) wasn’t buying Schiff’s act. She pointed out the real reason for Schiff’s meltdown — fear. Blackburn noted that Schiff knows Patel is privy to damning information about Democratic efforts to frame Trump as a Russian agent. With Patel now at the helm of the FBI, the deep state swamp may have good reason to sweat.
