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MAGA making excuses for this f-cking goon is just pathetic.
Imagine for a moment James Comey or even Robert Mueller snorkeling over hallowed ground.
Also imagine the outpouring of righteous indignation from Republicans if any Democrat had done the same.
This entire administration is stacked with incompetent, unqualified loyalists who have no business being in positions of power and whose only qualification is that they pledge their undying fealty to Trump.
This is perhaps the only reason why Patel still has a job, because he's willing to go after Trump's opponents.
These sniveling (and snorkeling) sycophants are hand picked because of their willingness to choose Donald Trump over the rule of law.
This is the definition of rampant cronyism.
Remember that Trump and his allies have insisted over and over again that hiring should be based on "merit" while denouncing "DEI" in all its forms.
Their constant attacks against "DEI" are often baseless and there's nothing meritocratic about Patel's appointment.
You say "DEI" hire, I say "DUI" hire.
You say merit, I say favoritism.
And with Patel now paranoid over being the next former Trump agency director, there's no doubt that he's going to ramp up the politically motivated investigations and partisan rhetoric.
It's also not a good look when the FBI director is being outed by his own staff and colleagues as a "national security threat" because of his drinking habits.
People who described Patel as "erratic, suspicious of others, and prone to jumping to conclusions before he has the necessary evidence."
Ya, that's exactly what we want from our country's top cop...
Keep in mind that for Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit to carry any weight, the reporter in question has to admit that the dozens of current and former staff she interviewed were lying, that she KNEW they were lying, and that she chose to publish the story anyways.
What seems more likely? That this is some kind of phony hit piece engineered by dozens of Patel's colleagues who are all trying to undermine him by fabricating stories that all follow a similar pattern, or that Kash Patel is the one lying?
In the meantime, Patel is conducting polygraphs of FBI staff members in order to single out the whistleblowers, which is another example of professional misconduct in itself and deserved its own separate story.
Then there's his firing of counterintelligence agents tasked specifically with monitoring Iranian threats just days before we launched a massive military operation in Iran. And only because some of these agents were part of the classified documents investigation into Trump...
To that point, he's overseen the purge of dozens of career agents who have at one point been involved in investigating Trump or his allies.
These were cases that former FBI agents chose with no political motive, but were nonetheless scrutinized.
After internal probes revealed no misconduct, they were still demoted, put on administrative leave and eventually forced out of the agency.
And it's also been revealed that Trump's new AG (and former personal lawyer) has orchestrated a similar purge of all DOJ staff not sufficiently loyal enough to the president.
These corrupt lackeys prioritize Trump's interests over everything else.
The MAGA regime is consolidating political and prosecutorial power at an alarming rate.
They're firing anyone whose loyalty can be questioned.
We're watching democracy unravel before our eyes as authoritarianism becomes the new norm.
Trump is weaponizing every power and agency of the federal government to target his political opponents, his critics in the media and anyone who has ever wronged him, and Patel was put in power to help Trump see this through.
In a just world, Kash Patel would have never been considered for the position in the first place. If "merit," skill, and competency were truly the basis for hiring, this administration would be staffed with an entirely different group of people.
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