{"id":64117,"date":"2024-12-01T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64117"},"modified":"2024-12-01T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T20:54:13","slug":"trumps-free-press-his-fbi-flunky-kash-patel-threatens-to-come-after-the-people-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64117","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Free Press? His FBI Flunky Kash Patel Threatens to &#8216;Come After the People in the Media&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is becoming more apparent every day that Donald Trump has abandoned any pretense of presidential leadership or responsible governing, He is now fully committed to a juvenile campaign of trolling his perceived enemies, <em>&#8220;owning the libs,&#8221;<\/em> and exacting retribution for wrongs he believes he has suffered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump's Free Press? His FBI Flunky Kash Patel Threatens to 'Come After the People in the Media'%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64117\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-constitution.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Constitution\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42072\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What else could explain the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/who-might-be-in-donald-trump-cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\">collection of crackpots<\/a><\/strong> that Trump has nominated to positions of considerable power in his emerging administration? It is no wonder that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63744\" target=\"_blank\">Trump is refusing to allow his nominees to undergo FBI background checks<\/a><\/strong>. So far the weirdo roster includes a brain-wormed, anti-vax, conspiracy theorist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to run the Department of Health and Human Services, a blatantly unqualified, sexual deviant, Pete Hegseth, as Defense Secretary, and an alleged pedophile with no legal experience, Matt Gaetz, (who has already been dropped for being even too ridiculous for the MAGA-philes) for Attorney General? The only apparent prerequisite for a job in Trump&#8217;s White House is unflinching adoration for Trump and an apprenticeship at Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63709\" target=\"_blank\">Trump is Stacking His Cabinet with Fox News Trump-Fluffers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Trump may have outdone himself with his latest proposed nominee. He is putting the name of Kash Patel up to be the Director of the FBI. As usual, Patel has little to no experience for the job he is being tasked to preform. What he has is an extraordinarily brown nose and a record of performing any evil or illegal stunt that Trump asks of him. That includes being a relentless election denier, covering up Trump&#8217;s theft of classified documents, and being an accomplice in Trump&#8217;s attempts to stage a violent coup on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>There are a multitude of examples of Patel&#8217;s manifest unsuitability to serve in the upper echelon of federal legal affairs. But one particular example stands out. During an appearance on <em>Steve Bannon&#8217;s War Room<\/em>, Patel spoke about what he would do if put in a position of power. And it had nothing to do with fighting crime or making the nation safer. He ranted that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\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. Whether it&#8217;s criminally or civilly, we&#8217;ll figure that out. But, yeah, we&#8217;re putting you all on notice. And this is why they hate us. This is why we&#8217;re tyrannical. This is why we&#8217;re dictators.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kash Patel to Steve Bannon: \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&#8230;This is why we&#39;re tyrannical. This is why we&#39;re dictator.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DMeqVfiO8z\">pic.twitter.com\/DMeqVfiO8z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1863140938094186824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, indeed. That IS why they are tyrannical dictators. Patel&#8217;s first priority is to persecute the free press that accurately reported on Trump&#8217;s serial criminal activities. This would be an implementation of Trump&#8217;s visceral hatred of the free press that he calls <em>&#8220;the enemy of the people.&#8221;<\/em> He has already sought to suppress the media by filing innumerable, meritless lawsuits against a variety of news organizations. He has even <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63255\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threatened to revoke the licenses of the networks<\/a><\/strong>. Licenses that, by the way, do not exist, so therefore, cannot be revoked. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that he can&#8217;t do damage in other petulant ways.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his assaults on the media, Trump intends to retaliate against honorable officers and prosecutors who brought January 6th insurrectionists to justice. He is focused intently on inventing crimes related to Trump&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Big Lie&#8221;<\/em> that the 2020 election was <em>&#8220;rigged.&#8221;<\/em> And he will seek to legally terrorize upstanding FBI operatives who recovered the stolen classified materials that Trump lied about hoarding at his Mar-a-Lago home\/hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted his announcement about Patel on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63819\" target=\"_blank\">his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am proud to announce that Kashyap &#8216;Kash&#8217; Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [&#8230;] He played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, Trump cannot unilaterally announce that Patel <em>&#8220;will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.&#8221;<\/em> Only that he is being nominated. The Senate must confirm the nomination before Patel can assume the post. And due to the highly controversial nature of this nomination, there is some doubt as to whether the narrowly divided Senate will provide their consent.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Trump&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/28404\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a><\/strong> explicitly cites one of the best reasons to block Patel&#8217;s confirmation. The role he played in trying to hide Trump&#8217;s unsavory and well documented associations with Russian officials and operatives was arguably as treasonous as Trump&#8217;s own actions. There was no <em>&#8220;hoax&#8221;<\/em> with regard to Trump and Russia. And Patel didn&#8217;t uncover any wrongdoing. He participated in it.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition to Patel&#8217;s nomination isn&#8217;t coming solely from Democrats. Trump&#8217;s National Security Advisor, John Bolton, said that <em>&#8220;The Senate should reject this nomination 100-0.&#8221;<\/em> And Trump&#8217;s Attorney General Bill Barr wrote in his book that he <em>&#8220;categorically opposed making Patel deputy FBI director,&#8221;<\/em> telling Trump&#8217;s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that it would happen <em>&#8220;over my dead body. Someone with no background as an agent would never be able to command the respect necessary to run the day-to-day operations of the bureau.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is also notable that for Patel to assume the directorship of the FBI, the current Director, Christopher Wray, would have to resign or be fired by Trump. Wray, by the way, was appointed by Trump in 2017, after he fired James Comey for not sufficiently sucking up. A shortcoming that Wray may soon be punished for by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The unmistakable path toward tyranny that Trump is traveling should alarm every American who cherishes the principles this nation was founded on. His flagrant efforts to silence the media is his way of insuring that he gets away with his authoritarian takeover. But with the Patel nomination, he may be overreaching. And that could give a couple of Republicans in the Senate the courage to stand up to him and for democracy. And that&#8217;s all it would take to sink the nomination of Patel.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Trump&#8217;s overreach may actually stiffen the spines of Republican senators after they get a taste of independence by rejecting Gaetz and possibly Patel. They may just have the integrity to also ditch Kennedy, Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and some of the other more reprehensible nominees. That may be a lot to hope for, but if we the people make our voices loud enough, they might actually hear us and do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64103\" target=\"_blank\">YIKES! 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