A fierce attack on the Nomini -nominated director of the FBI Kash Patel Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Ri, pulled out the derision of conservatives on social media on the eve of the expected vote on Patel’s nomination on Thursday afternoon.
“Kash Patel, mark my words, will cause evil in this building behind us, and the Republicans who vote for him will be ruined that day,” said Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Committee on the judiciary, on Thursday morning FBI headquarters.
He spoke hours before the final vote on Patel’s nomination.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Ri) speaks during a press conference after lunch with Democrats of Senate in the US Capitol Building on May 2. 2023. In Washington, DC (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Whitehouse mentioned Patel’s appeal to the fifth amendment before a large jury that examines whether President Donald Trump made a mistake from the secrets of national security.
“You’re so cinge,” Trump said the war room.
“They are terrified,” said the director of the White House for a quick reply Greg Price.
“Did Sheldon Whitehouse conceived this pathetic line of attacks on his completely white beach club?” Asked the conservative commentator and longtime Trump advisor Steve Cortes, referring to Whitehouse membership at an exclusive beach club that has a controversial history. Whitehouse’s office He had previously denied that the club was completely white.
Kash Patel, the election of President Donald Trump to be the director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Justice Committee at a certificate at the Capitol in Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
“Democrat Senator Whitehouse seems terribly scared that Kash Patel was cleaning the FBI …”, said conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
“Senator, evil is already inside the building,” said Republican digital operative Alex Sears.
Whitehouse comments were one of a series of comments about Patel by Democrats on the Committee.
“There is no doubt that he is unqualified and clumsy,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “The only question is whether my Republican colleagues will do the right thing.”
He warned that voting in favor of Patel’s nomination will “persecute” you.
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“You will break the day of this vote if he is advocating for Kasha Patel, because the American people will consider you responsible, and we will make sure that the American people know about this voice,” he concluded.
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According to a senior Patel transition team, the candidate left the capital on the night of hearing, flying home to Las Vegas, where he “sat there waiting for the procedure to be played.”
In addition to his trip home to Vegas, Patel is also a spyT time of hunting from Washington, said the clerk, providing photographic evidence of Patel’s activities.
Fox News’ Breanne Depisch and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
