1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination
On left:
Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on."
On right:
Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge!
Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”
On left:
Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on."
On right:
Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge!
Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”
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It puts this piece I recently wrote into overdrive. Key GOP Senators may now bulk at idea of his leading FBI.
We've seen this movie before.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi-durbin.html
And thanks to Charlie Savage for publishing Senator Durbin's full letter to the Inspector General, which is here:
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/8c3f97f48409daa8/51efc0bb-full.pdf
That little weasel needs to be contained like the rabid weasel he is ✔️
▶️ On left:
Written responses to questions for the record
@padilla.senate.gov: "Did you approve or have any role in the decision to terminate these senior FBI employees?"
Patel: "No."
▶️ On right:
Ranking Member Sen. Durbin's letter with whistleblower accounts to the contrary.
#1) sexual harassment / assault
#2) embezzlement
#3) assisted or partook in a coup and/or insurrection
#4) shot the family dog in the face
#5) perjury
Yep - Kash is a shoo-in!
SEN BLUMENTHAL: On the evening of January 30, 2025 ... it was reported that several senior F.B.I. officials ... had been told to resign or face dismissal.
At the time of your testimony, were you aware of these personnel decisions?
PATEL: Not that I recall.
SEN BLUMENTHAL: At the time of your testimony, were you aware of any other plans to dismiss any F.B.I. personnel? If so, please describe the personnel plans of which you were aware.
PATEL: Not that I recall.
Kash Patel's written response to Questions for the Record by Ranking Member Senator Durbin.⬇️
Cool.
That makes him exactly like the conservative majority on the supreme court.
Lot of good that policy has done regular Americans.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/kash-patel-trumps-pick-fbi-director-made-26m/story?id=118447126
They don't.
The MAGA Republicans are rubberstamps for Trump.
"Checks and balances" is dead.
(I'd love to be wrong!)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kash-patel-fbi-trump-tucker-carlson-russia-ukraine-putin/
America’s systemic injustice exposed.
Martin Luther King Jr. 🕊️(Civil Rights)
Michael Jackson 🎤(Musician)
Bill Cosby 🎭 (Comedian)
O.J. Simpson 🏈 (Football)
Tiger Woods ⛳ (Golfer)
Afeni Shakur ✊ (Activist)
https://doctorsofcourage.org/robert-schubring-americas-healthcare-caste-system/
I mean, these guys are letting a coup happen right in front of them. They are enabling it. What they have supposedly dedicated their lives to is blowing up, and they refuse to stop it. What leverage is Trump using?
Several SC justices perjured themselves in confirmation hearings. Consequences? “Congratulations you are now a Justice on the highest court in the land.” Zero calls for impeachment. Disgusting.
They are going to confirm him. He will not go to jail and he will collect $200.
Trump’s Manchurian candidate for US FBI director, employed by Russia…
So, this will go nowhere I’m afraid.
I believe I've become cynical.
Eeew
At this point, if Patel devoured a baby live during the confirmation, Repubs would say "Prolly had it coming."
It won't matter.
Just like Susan Collins does.
At this point, does ANYTHING blow up any nomination? Republicans are mindless meat puppets.
Pam Bondi too, remember when she said, no retribution?
Then her first memo and actions WAS retribution, fire the prosecutors.
The Trump Regime is corrupt AF
The GOP are on board with Trump or completely lack any backbone to stand up to a sycophant like #KashPatel .
When testifying to house/senate or even doing tv interviews, the interviewee gets to lie and THEN the story breaks.
Never a another chance for follow up questions
The media has ALWAYS coordinated these timings
1) Nothing
End of list
Say whatever the fk you have to, to get the job
Is it not as many as we want? Sure.
But there are people. And they will have a better chance with support, aid, and amplification.
Do the right thing. Be a beacon. Keep standing. Pull others in.
Do *something*.