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A fierce onslaught connected FBI manager nominee Kash Patel by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, drew mockery from conservatives connected societal media up of an expected ballot connected Patel’s information Thursday afternoon.
"Kash Patel, people my words, volition origin evil successful this gathering down us, and Republicans who ballot for him volition rue that day," Whitehouse, a subordinate of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said connected Thursday greeting extracurricular the FBI headquarters.
He spoke hours earlier the last ballot connected Patel’s nomination.
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Whitehouse mentioned Patel’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment earlier a expansive assemblage examining whether President Donald Trump mishandled nationalist information secrets.
"You are truthful cringe," the Trump War Room said.
"They are terrified," White House accelerated effect manager Greg Price said.
"Did Sheldon Whitehouse travel up with this pathetic enactment of onslaught astatine his all-white formation club?" asked blimpish commentator and longtime Trump advisor Steve Cortes, referencing Whitehouse's rank successful an exclusive formation nine that has a arguable history. Whitehouse’s office antecedently denied that the nine was all-White.
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"Democrat Sen. Whitehouse seems awfully frightened of Kash Patel cleaning up the FBI…," blimpish commentator Benny Johnson said.
"Senator, the evil is already wrong the building," Republican integer operative Alex Sears said.
Whitehouse’s comments were 1 of a fig of comments made astir Patel by Democrats connected the committee.
"There's nary question present helium is unqualified and unprepared," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said. "The lone question is whether my Republican colleagues volition bash the close thing."
He warned that a ballot successful favour of Patel's information "will haunt you."
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"You volition rue the time of this ballot if it's successful favour of Kash Patel, due to the fact that the American radical volition clasp you accountable, and we volition marque definite that the American radical cognize astir this vote," helium concluded.
According to a elder modulation squad authoritative for Patel, the nominee had departed the superior the nighttime of his hearing, flying location to Las Vegas, wherever helium had "been sitting determination waiting for the process to play out."
In summation to his travel location to Vegas, Patel has besides spent clip hunting distant from Washington, the authoritative said, providing photographic grounds of Patel's activities.
Fox News’ Breanne Deppisch and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
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