Maybe you don't know much about this Kash Patel guy, the former chief of staff at the Department of Defense and former deputy director of National Intelligence.
But all you need to do is read this op-ed from John Bolton criticizing the fella, and you'll know he's the right guy to head the FBI.
If John Bolton thinks you're the bad guy, then you're probably the good guy!
Let's see what Mr. Bolton had to say about Patel.
Too many of Mr. Trump's personnel selections evidence his assiduous search for personal fealty, not loyalty to the Constitution. Kash Patel's nomination as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation squarely fits this pattern.
Rep. Devin Nunes pushed Mr. Patel for the National Security Council staff after Republicans lost the House in 2018. Notwithstanding Mr. Patel's lack of policy credentials, the president ordered him hired …
We found he had exaggerated his role in cases he worked on as a Justice Department lawyer before joining Mr. Nunes's committee staff. Given the sensitivity of the NSC's responsibilities, problems of credibility or reliability would ordinarily disqualify any job applicant.
He was unqualified, you see. John Bolton says we need to get this guy out of here, and we all know that means he's the right guy for the job, no doubt about it.
But here's where I find myself totally falling for Patel. Remember before you read this that Trump was impeached for a 2019 phone call with Zelensky regarding Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption in Ukraine.
Fiona Hill, NSC senior director for Europe, testified to Congress during Mr. Trump's first impeachment hearings that Mr. Patel, at that time assigned to the International Organizations Directorate, participated in a May 2019 Oval Office meeting on Ukraine, and that he had engaged in various other Ukraine-related activities. Whatever he did on Ukraine while an NSC staffer, at least during my tenure, was unrestrained freelancing.
So yeah, that's the guy we want heading the FBI. John Bolton tells us so. Well, he tells us the opposite, but he's like Jim Cramer with stock advice, so we know to always do the opposite of what he says.
Mr. Bolton goes on to note how bad he feels that he didn't send out this op-ed earlier:
Mr. Patel is no Ed Levi or Bill Webster. To resolve questions over his integrity and fitness, a full-field FBI investigation, as prior nominees have undergone, is warranted. With more facts available and less rhetoric, the result will be clear. I regret I didn't fully discern Mr. Patel's threat immediately. But we are now all fairly warned. Senators won't escape history's judgment if they vote to confirm him.
I feel bad that you didn't put this op-ed out earlier as well.
If I'd known that you, John Bolton, were anti-Kash Patel, I'd have known right away to embrace the guy!
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