Washington – Washington (AP) – Kash PatelThe election of President Donald Trump to direct the FBI, will find a deeply skeptical interrogation of the Democratic senators on Thursday about his loyalty to the president and declared the desire to review the office while facing a high -risk hearing that will help determine his path Towards confirmation.
Patel, a Trump loyal who criticized the FBI about his investigations on the president and said that the protesters of January 6 were mistreated by the Department of Justice, he was elected in November to replace Christopher Wray, who directed the main federal agency for the application of the Law of the Nation for more than seven years.
A former assistant of the Chamber Intelligence Committee and a former Federal Prosecutor who served in the first Trump administration, Patel has alarmed critics with rhetoric, in dozens of podcasts and books that has been an author, in which he has demonstrated Faith to Trump, reduced the decision. -Ancant of the agency has now been asked to lead and identified by the name officials who believe it should be investigated.
In one of those Podcast interviews last year, he said that if he were in charge of the FBI, he would “close” the office of the office of the office in Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, and “would open it again the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state’ “.
“And I would take the seven thousand employees who work in that building and send them through the United States to pursue criminals. Go to be police, “he added.
Patel has been a loyal ally to Trump for years, finding a common cause about his shared skepticism of government surveillance and the “deep state”, a pejorative pinch used by Trump to refer to the government bureaucracy.
It was part of a small group of followers during Trump’s recent criminal trial In New York, which accompanied him to the court, where he told reporters that Trump was the victim of an “unconstitutional circus.”
That close link would be separated from the modern precedent of the FBI directors who seek to keep the presidents at the length of the arm.
Several Democratic senators in the Judicial Committee that have met with Patel, including Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, have issued statements that smile the alarm and indicate their opposition to the selection. Legislators presaged their interest in Patel by directing numerous questions about him Pam Bondi, Trump’s election for the Attorney General, When he had his own confirmation hearing earlier this month.
“I am deeply concerned about his physical condition to serve as director of the FBI. He has neither the experience, the judgment nor the temperament to lead this critical agency, ”Durbin said in a statement.
Trump’s Republican allies, who share the president’s belief that the FBI has politicized, has recovered around Patel and promised to support him, seeing him as someone who can shake the office and provide the necessary change.
Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who will introduce Patel on Thursday, said he had spent hours with him “setting everything I hope to see at the audience.”
“So much so,” he added, “that I have created a bingo card for all the things that I know that the Democrats are going to say about him that I think they are unfair, and I think he is ready to answer.”
Tillis said Patel is ready to answer questions about his book, including the list of enemies and the people mentioned in his glossary.
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