FBI investigation into Kash Patel was more extensive than previously reported

This, Elon at the head of DOGE and so many other appointments that are basically blackmail traps for the appointees is how everything has gone off the rails. These aren't piss poor nominations of yes men. These are "Do what we say or we will end you," appointments.

Then you disclose the results and put a warrant out because THAT'S YOUR LITERAL **F******** JOB TO DO SO.

That’s why Patel has that permanent “I fucked up REAL bad” look on his face. What a piece of shit he is.

The US is just a pump and dump at this point, if you wanted the country to be run like a business this is the outcome

EXTENSIVE not expensive.

Kashmeousside, how about that

This was in regards to an investigation in 2022. Kash did not investigate himself, what the article says is far more frightening than a money scheme.

What do you mean a kickback from an investigation?

Maybe he can end up suing himself for $10B

Impressive if he managed that from an investigation in 2022

If we're able to get these fucks out of the white house I truly hope I'm around long enough to see what the future history books say about this period in American history. It truly has to be the dumbest, most malevolent administration we've ever had. I don't know how anyone in the future is gonna be able to look back on this period and understand how it came to be, just pure idiocy. These guys make the Ohio Gang look like saints.

Everything coming out of the Trump admin makes sense if you understand that they see the law backwards. Your actions do not make you a good or bad person. Instead you are already a good or bad person independent of your actions. The law is supposed to put bad people in their place and it is supposed to protect good people. So a "good person" getting prosecuted for his crimes is a violation of the order of things. And a "bad person" getting abused by police even though he has committed no crimes is not a violation of the order of things.

It's almost like fear and intimidation is their main tactic. The moment you stop thinking of this administration's actions in good faith, the more sense it makes. This adminstration hates its citizens and will gladly continue fleecing us.

> It really is bizarro-world that they are able to twist lawful subpoenas, and relatively narrow subpoenas at that, and an investigation into criminal wrongdoing that is following the facts and players as they become aware of them, into some kind of 'weaponization' of the investigational process. It's the Russian playbook, they accuse democrats of weaponizing the DOJ against political enemies then turn around and ACTUALLY do that exact thing because "they do it too"

"accuse your enemy of what you are guilty of"

It only works because the conservative audience is entirely used to embracing their "rules for thee, not for me" sense of morality. Rules for thee = justice Rules for me = weaponization

This is probably one of, if not the most, blatant examples of the projection the regime demonstrates.

This is by design.

Same way other countries helped to get Trump elected. He’s the useful idiot.

He's always looking in 2 directions, but not behind him for that knife of betrayal that is coming.

I wouldn't say I'm worried, no.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he knows this and is doing all the stupid shit he’s been doing on purpose to “live it up” and syphon money while he’s still free.

You’d think these guys would be smart enough to know after the next election they’d be going to prison and Trump would get off Scot free.

Well no, because i already had/have the lowest possible opinion of any of these people. However I am worried that the democrats won't address this because they are a completely worthless party.

Imagine when the FBI agents he terminated sue for discovery in their lawsuits and the truth comes out.

All those points of yours could easily be applied to everyone Trump has appointed.

> Kash Patel is either a pedophile himself, or at the very least is completely OK with helping pedophiles escape justice so they can continue to r*** children. Literally the MO of the entire leadership of the GOP (and conservatism in general). But put more generally, they don't care about anyone other than themselves and their own in group. Any statements about others are performative. They don't actually care about children when they say "think of the children!" They don't actually care about poor Americans when they say "we should help Americans first!" They will do or say anything to achieve their personal selfish goal, whatever that happens to be.

the entire republican party are pedophiles

Kash Patel is just maintaining the tradition of the FBI's complicity in Epstein's child sex trafficking enterprise which was active since the Clinton administration. Presidents in both parties, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden - and dozens of members of Congress - have all been knowingly complicit in covering up the involvement of US intelligence and federal law enforcement with Epstein's child r*** and trafficking enterprise. This has always been about more than just covering Trump's ass. This has and continues to be about covering up the CIA's and FBI's ongoing knowledge, enablement, and complicity in Epstein's child trafficking - which is also a black eye for every Presidential administration since Clinton, which has allowed it to continue without opposition. >I Was Told Epstein ‘Belonged to Intelligence’ And to Leave It Alone. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/i-was-told-epstein-belonged-to-intelligence-and-to-leave-it-alone Alex Acosta, US Prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida who minted the outrageous sweetheart deal for Epstein, did so because US Intelligence (e.g., CIA) and federal law enforcement (e.g., FBI) had been using Epstein for years - effectively making them participants and enablers in his child sex trafficking enterprise. The 2008 deal was made at the end of George W. Bush's second term - meaning this had been going on for the entirety of his Presidency. Obama was no better, more focused on expanding unconstitutional surveillance by federal intelligence and law enforcement than in doing anything to challenge the outrageous Epstein deal. After eight years, Trump came in, and his stooge, Bill Barr, had Epstein dragged in and executed while in federal custody. And then Biden came in, found a complicit judge to invent a reason to seal the case for four more years, and continued to do nothing to reform corrupt US intelligence and law enforcement operations. Robert Maxwell, and then Ghislaine Maxwell, made millions selling Kompromat on US elected officials and their patrons to Israel's Mossad and Russia's GRU. And the GRU and Mossad have ever since used that Kompromat as leverage on US elected officials (both Republican and Democrat) to their own advantage. If you have ever wondered why so many presidential administrations and members of Congress have been so slavishly devoted to Israel and soft on Russia - this is why. Not only Trump and Epstein's clients need to be dragged into court, prosecuted, and put in prison for child r*** and trafficking. But also former and current leadership of the CIA and FBI, for their willful culpability in allowing Epstein to continue his crimes against children for decades. And the ongoing threat to National Security will not be resolved until the totality of the Epstein files are made public - without redaction - and the complicit collaborators in Federal Law Enforcement going back literal decades are arrested, tried, and put in prison.

Well he’s actually gonna be in Valhalla… /s

We could all be rich and worry free if we could only get rid of that pesky little thing, empathy, so we didn't care about who we hurt along the way.

Well...part of the problem is that "we the people" allow, and always have allowed these types to do what they want, instead of banding together to remove them from the society they are purposefully damaging...its hard when approx 1/3 of the people on "the peoples side" are easily manipulated and 1/3 don't do anything....

I really hope this is satire, but I wouldn't be surprised if not.

Grassley is 92 so I wouldn't be surprised if his brain has gone to mush.

Trash Patel

Hopefully there is still money in the banana stand for legal fees

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I'm not sure how he can be less qualified and more corrupt than I imagined, but I'm willing to consider the possibility.

Of course the Democrats voted. But the GOP has a 53 to 47 edge in the Senate. Murkowski and Collins broke party lines and voted against Patel. Every other Republican voted to confirm. All 47 members of the Democratic Party Caucus voted against his confirmation.