Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi’s Wednesday confirmation hearing could be seen in several ways as a precursor to how the Senate will approach Kash Patel, whom President-elect Donald Trump tapped to lead the FBI as director.
Since Trump announced Patel’s nomination, Democrats have been wringing their hands at the prospect of Patel leading the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), during the proceedings, brought up Patel’s supposed comments about the QAnon conspiracy theory cult, an issue that most people likely haven’t thought about in years.
Democratic senators discussed comments Patel made in media appearances and expressed concerns that he has a supposed “enemies list” of people he will target if he becomes FBI Director.
During Bondi’s confirmation hearing, the fixation on Patel prompted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to jokingly say, “If they’re asking about Kash Patel, it must be going pretty well.”
Even before Bondi’s hearing, leftists ranted about Patel’s nomination on the airwaves and interwebs, painting him as a J. Edgar Hoover-like figure who would weaponize the FBI against those who opposed the president-elect.
Shortly after the terrorist attack in New Orleans, Sen. Adam Schiff took the opportunity to exploit the carnage to argue that Patel is not qualified for the position.
I think the terrorist attack in New Orleans…underscores, again, the importance of having someone directing the FBI that has experience, that has judgment, that has character that will prioritize defending the country against the violence we saw in New Orleans or the violence we saw on January 6, not someone whose top priority is political vendettas, who believes in deep state conspiracy thinking, not someone who is as unqualified as Kash Patel.
As if anything out of Schiff’s mouth isn’t aimed at saving his party and making America more vulnerable.