Kash Patel is facing an onslaught of attacks from Democrats.
Fortunately, he has a quick-witted ally on his side.
And John Kennedy dropped the hammer on a top Democrat over one awful attack on Kash Patel.
Kash Patel faces the gauntlet in his Senate confirmation hearing
FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, was nominated by President Donald Trump to clean up the bureau.
Trump battled the FBI during his first term in office after the bureau perpetrated the Russian collusion hoax to undermine his Presidency.
Patel is a reformer who can end the politicization of the FBI and get it focused on its original mission of fighting crime.
That’s why Democrats have been hell-bent on trying to tank his nomination.
Patel had his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee where Democrats tried to discredit him and get him in gotcha situations.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin called Patel a “conspiracy theorist” during the hearing.
U.S. Senator John Kenndey (R-LA) came to the FBI Director nominee’s defense with his trademark brand of humor.
“My colleague and friend Senator Durbin called you a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ You remember that?” Kennedy asked.
Patel said that he did.
“You were instrumental in revealing the Trump-Russia election-collusion hoax was a hoax, weren’t you?” Kennedy wondered.
Patel was a staffer on the House Intelligence Committee under former Chairmen Devin Nunes (R-CA), where he helped expose the Russian collusion hoax in 2018.
He acknowledged that he was the lead investigator for the committee during that investigation.
Kennedy sat silently with a serious look on his face while he nodded his head.
“Sounds to me like we need to get some new conspiracy theories because all the old ones turned out to be true,” Kennedy said.
That prompted laughter from Patel and some of the audience.
“Facts matter, Senator,” Patel replied.
John Kennedy has the Senate hearing in stitches
Kennedy observed that calling something a conspiracy theory is just the Left’s way of trying to discredit the truth these days.
“I mean, conspiracy theorists are up something like 37 to nothing,” Kenndy quipped, which caused the audience to burst into laughter.
Democrats tried to make hay out of Patel’s previous commentary that’s been critical of the politicized leadership of the FBI.
“You’re not saying everybody at the FBI is bad, are you?” Kennedy asked.
“I’ve never said that,” Patel responded. “I’ve overwhelmingly said, multiple times, that 98% of the FBI is courageous, apolitical warriors for justice. They just need better leadership.”
Patel argued during the hearing that his work as a public defender and on the probe into the Russian collusion hoax made him qualified to spot abuses of power by the FBI.
He vowed that he would end the politicization that’s overtaken the FBI in the Trump era.
“I have no interest, no desire and will not, if confirmed, go backwards,” Patel said. “There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken.”
Kash Patel is ready to go into the FBI and clear out the rot that’s festered inside the bureau.
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