Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who spent years peddling the phony claim that President Donald Trump is a Russian asset and stooge, took to far-left MSNBC to whine about FBI Director Kash Patel.
In an appearance with host Lawrence O’Donnell, the two commiserated about Patel and suggested that he would politicize the agency that was weaponized by the regime of now-former President Joe Biden against Trump for most of Biden’s term. They also predicted that a future Democratic president would fire Patel upon taking office.
“With all this going on in the Senate floor, you did something that senators have never done before, to actually go out to the street, in this case outside the FBI headquarters today, to protest the confirmation by the Republican senators of an FBI director who was absolutely unimaginable as being qualified for any form of federal service prior to Donald Trump winning the presidency,” O’Donnell said of Patel, who is a former federal prosecutor and national security official.
“Yes, we stood outside the FBI headquarters to make a last plea against this — this terrible choice to be FBI director, Kash Patel. Kash Patel is the guy you go to when everybody else says, ‘No, I won’t do it. It’s too immoral, it’s too unethical, it’s too unlawful.’ He’s the guy. That’s why he was chosen. You rise to the level of your utter sycophancy in the Trump Administration,” Schiff claimed.
“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,” he continued, failing to mention that Biden issued a pre-emptive pardon to him on the former president’s way out the door.
Biden also commuted the sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of fatally shooting two FBI agents execution-style in the head in 1975. Peltier is serving out the remainder of his sentence at home.
“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,” Schiff continued. “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.”
“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,” O’Donnell said with a straight face after the FBI pursued Trump for nearly two years before his November victory.
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“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,” Schiff replied.
“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,” he said.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said that Schiff is frightened by Patel’s position as FBI director because he knows that Patel is aware of potential criminal activity the Democratic senator engaged in when attempting to frame Trump as a Russian agent.
