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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today questioned Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), at his Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing.
On the politicization of the FBI:
- GRAHAM: “The reason you’re here is because most of the public, almost every Republican, believes that the FBI has been used continuously in a political fashion, ignoring evidence, making up evidence, lying to get Donald Trump. And when it came to the Hunter Biden laptop, [the FBI] told every social media company, ‘oh that’s Russian disinformation.’ That was BS too… do you promise all of us those days are over at the FBI?”
PATEL: “Yes Senator, they are.”
GRAHAM: “…Do you think that’s why you’re here today, to make sure that never happens again?”
PATEL: “The American people deserve just that.” https://youtu.be/KoHclcynkNI?si=r_ApugOzK0pYwJe8&t=388
- GRAHAM: “[Former FBI agent Lisa Page] responds [to former FBI agent Peter Strzok] a couple months later, ‘[Trump] is not ever going to be president, right?’ …Strzok [responded]: ‘No. No he won’t. We’ll stop him.’ Is it fair to say that the people in charge of investigating Crossfire Hurricane hated Trump’s guts?”
PATEL: “Well you don’t have to take my word for it…”
GRAHAM: “Are those days over in the FBI, you hope?”
PATEL: “Well if they’re not, they will be.” https://youtu.be/KoHclcynkNI?si=PP-2Ok7o7yitp9jw&t=174
- GRAHAM: “Do you believe that Crossfire Hurricane was one of the most disgusting episodes in FBI history of a corrupt investigation led by corrupt people who wanted to take Donald Trump down?”
PATEL: “Yes, sir.”
GRAHAM: “Do you think that's why you’re here in this chair today? To fix that?”
PATEL: “I think that’s a big reason.”
GRAHAM: “Without Crossfire Hurricane, this guy wouldn’t be here.” https://youtu.be/KoHclcynkNI?si=SwQfd9Tq_KsraTh8&t=298
On Democrats’ attacks on Patel’s character:
- GRAHAM: “Have you ever been subject to racism as an individual?”
PATEL: “Unfortunately, Senator, yes. I don’t want to get into those details with my family here.”
GRAHAM: “Let’s get into a few of them. Tell me about it.”
PATEL: “Well, if you look at the record from January 6th, where I testified before that committee, because of my personal information being released by Congress, I was subjected to a direct and significant threat on my life. And I put that information in the record. I had to move. In that threat, I was called a detestable, and I apologize if I don’t get it all right, but it’s in the record, a detestable [expletive] who had no right being in this country. ‘You should go back to where you came from. You belong with your terrorist home friends.’ That’s what was sent to me. That’s just the piece of it, but that’s nothing compared to what the men and women in law enforcement face every day, and that’s why they have my support.” https://youtu.be/KoHclcynkNI?si=RkOg1tDKXzfFDO8_&t=7
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