Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Democratic lawmakers and members of the FBI “deep state” are in a panic mode over President-elect Donald Trump nominating Kash Patel to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) due to Patel’s past callings for the full release of major classified documents, including the manifesto left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale and the client list once kept by disgraced financier-turned-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Noting that while most are “excited” to see Patel nominated for the position, Pappert said “institutional Democrats and the other members of the FBI deep state” are “so upset” about Patel’s nomination specifically due to his calls for such information to be released.
“Nobody could honestly make the argument that he is not qualified for the position,” Pappert explained on Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Pappert went on to detail Patel’s background in government, explaining how the former Trump official’s remarkable work has been awarded for years and how, once the Trump administration ended, Patel remained true to his work and continued to expose the corruption in government.
“Kash Patel is a very unique person in that he is a sort of lifelong or at least career long government employee. He was receiving awards in 2014 under the Obama-Biden administration for his work in counterterrorism. He, of course, supported Trump and was brought into the first Trump administration where he worked in three different roles in the administration,” Pappert said.
“When President Trump left office, Kash Patel went on, essentially, a crusade against the, what he calls, ‘government gangsters’ in the deep state who make it impossible to have a government formed by the people. So he’s now been essentially auditioning for this job for four years – going on interviews, writing books, and saying exactly what he would do to fix the intelligence apparatus of the U.S. and make it so it cannot ever be in weaponized against, say, a presidential candidate named Donald Trump again,” Pappert added.
Noting how Democrats are not likely to press Patel on his calls for the Covenant manifesto and Epstein client list to be released during his confirmation hearings, Pappert said it would be “brilliant” for Republicans to bring up Patel’s intent to release such information.
“I think it would be a brilliant master stroke for a Republican to bring it up and essentially turn the confirmation hearings back on to the Democrats and say, ‘Either you confirm Kash Patel and you allow him to fix the FBI and make this agency respectable again, or else you’re forever going to be known as the people who covered up the transgender killer’s manifesto and the sex trafficker’s black book.’ Congratulations, Democrats. That will be your legacy,” Pappert said.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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