{"id":63688,"date":"2024-11-09T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63688"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:35:23","slug":"trumps-prospective-cia-director-kash-patel-were-gonna-come-after-the-people-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63688","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Prospective CIA Director [Now FBI Director], Kash Patel: We’re Gonna Come After the People in the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nightmare scenarios that were contemplated prior to Donald Trump prevailing on Tuesday were never given the proper consideration that they deserved. Most politicians and pundits downplayed the most serious consequences of a second occupation of the White house by Trump. And the media engaged in new reality-distorting shenanigans that came to be known as “sanewashing,”<\/em> the practice of cleaning up Trump’s spine-chillingly abhorrent, and mind-numbingly incoherent, commentaries to make them appear to be almost rational.<\/p>\n

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However, the grim truth always emerges eventually. And as Maya Angelou said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”<\/em> Trump showed us who he is repeatedly during his last term in office and throughout this year’s campaign. And who Trump is is a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, financial fraudster, pathological liar, and aspiring dictator. But despite the abundance of evidence, many people managed to gloss over it and vote him in anyway.<\/p>\n

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Among the atrocious concepts that clog Trump’s cranium, are his yearnings to impose on America the visceral animosity he harbors toward the free press that he has maligned, in Stalinist terms, as “the enemy of the people.”<\/em> He has filed innumerable, meritless lawsuits against a variety of news organizations, and threatened to revoke the licenses of the networks<\/a><\/strong>. Licenses that, by the way, do not exist, so therefore, cannot be revoked.<\/p>\n

Given the current state of affairs, this would be a good time to recall what Trump flunky, Kash Patel, articulated in December about what would become the agenda for the press if Trump were to be reelected. In an episode of Steve Bannon’s “War Room”<\/em> plodcast, Bannon and Patel shared the following exchange…<\/p>\n

Bannon:<\/strong> Kash, I know you’re probably gonna be head of the CIA. But do you believe that you can deliver the goods on this in a pretty short order the first couple of months so we can get rolling on prosecutions?
\nPatel:<\/strong> Yes. We got the bench for it Bannon. And you know those guys – I’m not gonna go out there and say their names right now so the radical left-wing media can terrorize them. But the one thing we learned in the Trump administration the first go round is we gotta put in all America patriots, top to bottom. And we got them for law enforcement. We got them for intel collection. We got them for offensive operations. We got them for DOD, CIA, everywhere. […]<\/p>\n

We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes, we’re gonna come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re gonna come after you.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kash Patel, who is poised to serve as a top official in a second Trump administration:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We\u2019re going to come after you.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/C0tvXXrNah<\/a><\/p>\n

— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) July 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n