President Donald Trump’s candidate for running the Federal Investigation Bureau has collected the support of a key Republican senator on his way to confirmation.
Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La, said on Tuesday that he would vote to confirm Kasha Patel to perform the duty of the FBI director for a 10-year term.
“I talked to more people I respect About Kash Patela This weekend – both against and against, “Cassidy, Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Work and Pensions, wrote on X.
“Those who worked closely with Kasha were moaning. I’ll vote for his confirmation,” Cassidy said.
Grotesque mistakes Kash Patel Hammers from Dems in the middle of a fiery hearing to confirm the FBI
File – Kash Patel, election of President Donald Trump to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Justice Committee at a certificate hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, January 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
Senate prevailed by a procedural obstacle On Tuesday, the Patel nomination is 48-45 voting, placing a final voice on his nomination on Thursday.
The Senate Judicial Committee improved Patel’s nomination in Voting from 12-10 parties to be considered by the entire Kongres Chamber of Kotar last Thursday. After the Senate Committee on the Democrats of Democrats held the Patel nomination in seven days, the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, defended Patela last week before the vote.
Grassley said that he spent his entire career fighting for just causes “and” he was a public defender, presenting the accused against the power of the state. “
Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La, watches Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He testifies during his Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension on January 30, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
4 of the greatest conflicts between Patel, Senate Dems at his hearing
“He was a congress officer, investigating the partisan weapon of our legal system. He served in key roles of national security, protecting Americans from foreign enemies,” Grassly said to the Committee. “He received the support of former FBI agents, former federal and state prosecutors and organizations representing more than 680,000 law officials. But Mr. Patel’s biography, his achievements and his support are not the reason why he is the best man for work.”
Grassly said the patel “should be our next director of the FBI because the FBI is infected with political bias and weapons against the American people.”
Kash Patel swore during the hearing of the Senate Committee on the judiciary on his nomination for the director of the FBI, on the Capitol hill on January 30, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
“Mr. Patel knows that, he exposed him and was aim of that,” he said, describing how the patel was “instrumental in Exposing a branch of cross -fire, “ and “showed that the Democratic National Committee funded false accusations against President Trump, that they hid and the FBI hid information from the FIS Court to eavesdrop on the presidential campaign and that the FBI lawyer lied in the process.”
“As a reward for his efforts to discover the truth, he was attacked by the media, and the impression secretly called on his records,” Grassley said. “I know something or two about this type of retaliation.”
At his hearing for a certificate last month, Patel clashed with the Democrats of the Committee after refusing to share his testimony of a large jury in the event of discarded classified documents against Trump, as well as through Patel’s defense against clutter on January 6th and criticism of “Deep State.” Democrats are Democrats. They asked for a second hearing to confirm the patella, but Grassley rejected that request.
Trump nominated the patela in November, moving to replace the former FBI director Chris Wray. Trump eavesdropped on Wray to run the FBI in his first administration, but later accused him of the agency’s weapon.
Two Republican senators, Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, did not confirm whether they would vote in support of the patella.
Both Collins and Murkowski voted in particular against the Defense Minister Peteo Hegsetha’s confirmation, for which Vice President JD Vance gave a vote.
