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Cashyab “Cash” Patel spent the choice of President Donald Trump to lead the FBI, his first confirmation session before the Senate in the United States in an attempt to avoid accusations that he would use the local security agency to achieve political gains.
Patel’s appearance was one of three controversial sessions on Thursday, as Trump candidates are seeking high -level government jobs to obtain the approval of the Senate.
Among them was Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a skeptical vaccine seeking to lead the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, and Tolsi Gabbard, who was nominated to be the Director of National Intelligence.
However, while Gabbard and Kennedy are relatively modern from Trump, Patel was examined because of his long -term loyalty to the Republican leader and real estate man.
Patel, 44, was a general defender and a federal prosecutor before joining the Trump administration during his first term as president of 2019.
But after the end of Trump’s first term, reports showed that many officials had strongly objected to the rise of Patel in the ranks. According to Jenna Hasbil, head of the CIA, threatened to resign if Pateel was appointed deputy director of the agency.
However, Patel remained one of Trump’s close advisers and media agents, even a composition of a book for children depicting the sympathy of the Republican leader as a besieged king.
He also made a series of public statements that indicate that it is permissible to prosecute journalists if approved as the FBI director and transfer the office headquarters to the “Deep State Museum”.
These statements were made repeatedly during Thursday’s session, when Democrats pressed it in its qualifications and moral standards. Here are the main meals of the session.
Republicans line up behind Patel
At the beginning of the session, the Republican leaders of the Judicial Committee of the Senate were roaming behind Patel, despite the controversy waving on the horizon about his candidacy.
Chuck Grassley, from Iowa, the head of the committee, put a tone in his opening notes.
Trump’s allegations said that the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office had been armed against Republicans – and the president in particular.
Trump was isolated twice in his first term, and after he left his position in 2021, he became the first American president to face criminal charges, including for falsifying business records, withholding classified documents and seeking to sabotage the elections.
“The confidence of the federal investigation in the FBI. Grassley said only 41 percent of the American people believe that the FBI is doing a good job.” It is not surprising that general confidence in an institution has been afflicted with ill -treatment, lack of transparency and weapons to enforce the law. “
Grassley added that, if confirmed, it will be assigned to restore this confidence.
Senator Dick Dorbin from Illinois, the Democrats of the Committee, answered a Grasley statement with one of him.
“Since 1935, the FBI logo has been” sincerity, courage and integrity. “After meeting with Mr. Patel and reviewing his record, I do not think you meet the standard.”
Democrat added that Trump nominated Patel after the presence of former managers at the FBI who refused to comply with his demands.
“With Mr. Patel, it is clear that the president found loyalty. Durbin said that Mr. Patel’s loyalty includes the manufacture of conspiracy theories and efforts made by President Trump’s enemies.”
Democrats face an arduous battle in preventing Patel confirmation. By the end of the session, Patel’s nomination seemed ready to fully vote in the Senate, with Republicans carrying 53 out of 100, compared to 47 seats for Democrats and independents.
Breaking with Trump during January 6
One of the biggest disclosure of the session appeared early, in an exchange with Deren on rioters who were arrested for their participation in an attack on the American Capitol.
On January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump’s supporters came down to the Capitol while the legislators at home were witnessing the results of the presidential elections for the year 2020.
Payed by false allegations that Trump’s 2020 defeat was a result of fraud on a large scale, they stormed the Capitol, and assaulted the enforcement of the law and the threat of “suspension” of officials such as Vice President Mike Pines.
During the era of former President Joe Biden, an estimated 1583 people were involved in federal criminal charges.
On the first day of Trump’s second state, however, the Republican leader Ease 14 sentences and grant a complete pardon for the rest of the accused.
In line with Trump’s private position, Patel expressed his sympathy for the “hostages” on January 6-even promoting the work of the so-called J6 choir-consisting of imprisoned defendants, to raise money on their behalf.
On Thursday, Durbin Patel asked whether Trump was wrong in issuing a battery pardon for riots.
“I do not agree to reduce any penalty from any individual who committed violence against law enforcement,” Battle answered.
When pressing the cases in which rioters and law enforcement were overpowering in Capitol, Patel repeated his position, as he presented a rare moment of Trump’s policies.
Senator, I have not seen in all 1600 individual cases. I have always been calling for a prison of those who cause law enforcement and civil societies.
Patel denies the desire to politicize the FBI
There was another point of disagreement that the previous Batel’s statements about how the office of the FBI director used the office of the FBI.
Speaking to Trump’s ally Steve Bannon on Podcast in 2023, Patel repeated the Republican leader’s warnings that political competitors may face criminal prosecution upon his return to office.
“We will go out and find the conspirators, not only in the government, but in the media,” Patel said. “We will come after people in the media who lied to American citizens who helped in Joe Biden’s presidential elections.”
These phrases – similar – were a repeated topic in Thursday’s session. Patel tried to reject them, in some cases, arguing that the quotes had been removed from the context.
“I have no interest, no desire and will, if it is confirmed, back. Patel said in an interaction with Senator Chris Konz:” There will be no politicization of the FBI. “There will be no raising procedures by any FBI, If I am confirmed as the FBI director. “
Patel pledged not to do anything unconstitutional or illegal.
Patel replied, “Senator, I will always obey the law,” and it seems that it avoids the question.
Another democratic, Richard Blumentel from Connecticut, sought assurances that Patel would not allow the launch of officials participating in federal investigations from Trump.
During the Trump era, the Ministry of Justice has already launched professional prosecutors in his prosecution on charges of interfering of elections and classified documents.
“Will you be committed to you will not tolerate the release of FBI agents who worked with the Special Advisor Office in these investigations?” He asked Blumentel, asking “Yes” or “No.”
Patel replied: “Every employee of the FBI will be kept on the same absolute criterion, and no person will be completed for cases.”
Then he added, “All FBI employees will be protected against political revenge.”
Law enforcement capabilities
Meanwhile, Patel sought to play one of his points of sale: that he would embody the law enforcement capabilities at the FBI.
He used this goal as a way to defuse criticism about his statements that he will dismantle the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, on the first day of his leadership.
“A third of the Federal Investigation Office works in Washington, DC,” Patel answered. “I am completely committed to the presence of these workforce in the interior of the countries where I live, West Mississippi, and I work with Sharif departments and local employees.”
“The American people deserve resources, not in Washington, DC, but in the rest of the country,” he added.
Trump himself sought to present an aggressive position towards the violent crime police, and Patel placed himself as an enthusiastic ally in that battle.
“The priority of the FBI, if confirmed, will be sure to protect and protect our societies, and have our children to play and not needles for walking,” Patel said.
But the session was heated again and again, as Patel and its Democratic criticism clashed.
“If the best attacks on them are wrong accusations and bad bad meanings, then the only thing that this body is doing is to defeat the credibility of men and women at the FBI,” Patel told Senator Amy Klopuwshar, one of his most enthusiastic critics.
But Klopochar answered that she was simply facing Patel with his own words.
“It is his own words, it is not some conspiracy. This is what Mr. Patel said at all. The facts are important. “
