Adam Schiff says New Orleans attack shows why Kash Patel shouldn’t lead FBI
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Schiff says Trump’s nominee lacks experience needed for FBI role and believes in ‘deep state’ conspiracy thinking. Adam Schiff says the deadly truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day demonstrates why Congress should reject Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, after his second presidency begins.
“Kash Patel should not be confirmed,” the California senator said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “I think the terrorist attack on New Orleans … just underscores again the importance of having someone directing the FBI that has experience, that has judgment, that has character, [and] that will prioritize defending the country against the violence we saw in New Orleans” or that from Trump supporters during the US Capitol attack on 6 January 2021 after he lost the presidency to Joe Biden weeks earlier.
After expressing condolences to loved ones of the 14 victims killed in the New Orleans attack, Schiff added that Patel lacked the experience needed for the role to lead the bureau at the center of the investigation into that case. Patel instead is “someone whose top priority is political vendettas, who believes in ‘deep state’ conspiracy thinking”, said Schiff, who previously served on a US House committee that investigated the Capitol attack.
Patel, a Trump loyalist, has promoted false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from the president-elect who defeated Kamala Harris in November’s election. Patel has also claimed federal bureaucrats working in the “deep state” actually tried to overthrow Trump.
