[guest post by Dana]

He’ll fit right in:

Kash Patel, a longtime loyalist to President Donald Trump, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — an agency he has talked about drastically restructuring while echoing Trump’s claims of the “weaponization” of the bureau’s powers in its Capitol riot investigations and other recent cases.

Patel was opposed by a pair of Republican senators: Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins. But he won support from every other Republican, including Sen. Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, who had opposed some of Trump’s other nominees. The final vote was 51-49, with all Senate Democrats opposing Patel.

McConnell, who earlier today announced that he would not be seeking re-election, shamed himself with his “yes” vote. How disappointing that he was unwilling to – I’ll quote Nancy Mace here – hold the line for the most qualified candidate. Warnings about Patel’s lack of integrity, lack of qualification, and his repeated claim that the 2020 election was stolen, have informed us as to what type of individual he is, and what he’ll be bringing to the position.

Moreover, there is also this. I wouldn’t trust anything coming out of her mouth, let alone a personal reference for a very powerful position in Washington:

Julie Kelly, a conservative commentator who described herself as a friend of Patel’s, predicted that Patel would “do what needs to be done” at the FBI, “which is not just dismantle this agency from the top headquarters down to 56 FBI field offices, but also hold accountable those agents who have used their unaccountable power to weaponize the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country against the political foes of the regime.”

Birds of a feather flock together, and so far the Trump administration/cabinet all look the same as they prostrate themselves before their leader. And that is not a good look.

P.S.

I predicted that all of Donald Trump’s picks would be confirmed–including Matt Gaetz. When Gaetz withdrew, people laughed at me. So be it.

Many of the same people said Kash Patel could not be confirmed.

Today, Gaetz is probably livid that he was made to withdraw.

My rationale was: senators are too cowardly to oppose these nominees in public, in numbers great enough to defeat any single nomination. That rationale has not been disproved.

My error on Gaetz was thinking that Trump would push the issue. I’m still not sure why he didn’t.

—Dana