Give Dick Durbin the Brass Neck Award for making this a topic of questioning at all in the Senate confirmation hearing for Kash Patel. Democrats want to use these hearings to shriek about January 6, much as they have spent the last four years shrieking about it, even after a national election when it became crystal clear that Americans aren’t terribly concerned about it. And it comes after a sequence of corrupt and incompetent blanket pardons from Joe Biden that had even Democrats demanding answers.
Give credit to the nominee for FBI Director for preparation, too. Patel took Durbin’s question and shoved it right back down his throat, making himself the champion for the FBI’s rank and file:
Durbin: Do you think that America is safer because the J6 defendants have been pardoned?
Kash Patel: America is not safe because of President Biden’s commutation of a man…
