Trump nominates Kash Patel for FBI director

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Committee vote on Kash Patel's nomination to be FBI director delayed after Democrats object​

Democrats say they want to know why he previously invoked the Fifth Amendment.

The move will require the committee to take a one week hold before voting on Patel's nomination but the delay will likely have no bearing on Patel's ability to ultimately be confirmed. [And K$H is unlikely to answer their question in the meantime.]

In a letter to Republican chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, obtained by ABC News, Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, Cory Booker and Adam Schiff wrote...

"We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI," they wrote.

During his hearing before the committee last week, Patel testified that he would be impartial but dodged questions about his comments and associations with far-right groups such as █████.

Calling for a one-week holdover before a vote is allowed under Judiciary Committee rules. Both parties have exercised it regularly when in the minority. The committee will now likely vote on Patel's nomination next Thursday.

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"The mob takes the Fifth" Donald Trump

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Trump PAC reportedly paid legal bills of Mar-a-Lago witnesses​

Political action committee paid bills of former Trump adviser Kash Patel... The payment of witnesses’ legal fees by a political group whose purse strings Trump controls, while not illegal, raises ethical concerns and poses a conflict, the Post says.

“It looks like the Trump political action committee is either paying for the silence of these witnesses, for them to take the fifth [amendment] or for favorable testimony,” he said, referring to the constitutional protection against self-incrimination.

 

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....the company a man keeps.
. In 2021 and 2022, [Patel] made no fewer than six appearances on the show of anti-vaccine maniac Stew Peters, who is widely regarded as a white nationalist.

Peters is one of the foulest and most conspiratorial goons in the alt-right podcast space.

MAGA Pundit Who Hosted Kash Patel, Other Top Republicans on Show Calls For "A Final Solution" to Deport All Jews​

In this new episode of Peters’ show, flagged by Right Wing Watch in the below tweet, Peters railed against President Donald Trump for “changing his motto from ‘Make America Great Again’ to ‘Make Israel Great Again,'” accusing him of abandoning the “America First Agenda” and “not serving the American people” by supporting Israel and following the orders of “his Jewish paymasters” and doing “whatever his AIPAC handlers tell him to do.”

Later in the episode, Peters’ guest Matt Baker commented that he doesn’t agree with the host’s call to “deport all Jewish people” and Peters retorted, “I’m two years ahead of you on that, and in two years, you’ll come back and say, ‘yeah, you were right about that.'”

"We absolutely do need a final solution on that.”

 

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MAGA Pundit Who Hosted Kash Patel, Other Top Republicans on Show Calls For "A Final Solution" to Deport All Jews​

In this new episode of Peters’ show, flagged by Right Wing Watch in the below tweet, Peters railed against President Donald Trump for “changing his motto from ‘Make America Great Again’ to ‘Make Israel Great Again,'” accusing him of abandoning the “America First Agenda” and “not serving the American people” by supporting Israel and following the orders of “his Jewish paymasters” and doing “whatever his AIPAC handlers tell him to do.”

Whether you're a Somali immigrant in Dearborn or <this guy>, I don't know how anybody could've missed Trump's pro-Israel leanings.

 

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Stew Peters sounds, and probably acts, like a very far right extremists who ought not be taken seriously. He probably has a very low amount of relative influence amongst the MAGA crowd.