Exasperating Senate Confirmation Hearings Confirm Why Americans Re-Elected Donald Trump

To call the Senate confirmation hearings exasperating is an understatement. President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees are not being grilled on background, policy and experience; they are being put through the wringer to make them suffer.

Senate Democrats are trying to break them. Senate Democrats are trying to destroy them. And not just destroy them personally and professionally, but to crush them, annihilate them. And in doing so, Senators have exposed just how ineffectual and unqualified they are.

They are making a mockery of the process, and much of it is cringe-worthy.

We certainly aren’t watching the best and brightest politicians at work.

After character attacks by Democrat Senators Maize Hirono, Bernie Sanders, Raphael Warnock, Richard Blumenthal, Dick Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Maria Cantwell, Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Mark Warner, et al., Trump FBI Director nominee Kash Patel said, “If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI.”

Responding to Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Patel said:

“The only thing that will matter if confirmed is a deweaponized, depoliticized system of law enforcement, completely devoted to rigorous obedience to the Constitution and a singular standard of justice.”

Trump’s nominees and Republican Senators have had to refute ridiculous accusations, and character assignations.

Senator Dick Durbin intimated that Patel is a racist. Here is Patel’s response: “I certainly don’t believe that an individual who is the the first minority to serve as the Deputy Director of National Security is a racist and detest any conjecture to the contrary.”

This is the entire Confirmation Hearing process summarized:

HIRONO: “You refuse to answer the question.”
KASH PATEL: “I answered 13,000 pages of the question.”
HIRONO: “No answer to the question and yet you spread dangerous misinformation.”

I shared this with a political friend who replied, “She would be dumb even in a world of Idiocracy.”

And as Senator Ted Cruz pointed out, “The Democrats’ performance today at Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing reminded me of a line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: ‘It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’ They stomped their feet and yelled but offered nothing of substance.”

Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) had a toddler melt down as she questioned Kash Patel. “Did you say that the FBI headquarters should be shut down and reopened as a museum of the deep state?” Klobuchar demanded to know, waving her arms and raising her voice.

“If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility the men and women at the FBI,” Patel said. “I stood with them here in this country, in every theater of war we have. I was on the ground in service of this nation, and any accusations leveled against me — that I would somehow put political bias before the Constitution — are grotesquely unfair,” he added.

Patel continued:

“And I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI,” he said. “Let’s ask them.”

Waving her arms even more dramatically and raising her voice even higher, Klobuchar demanded the answer she wanted. “Mr. Chairman, I am quoting his own words from September of 2024. It is his own words. It is not some conspiracy. It is what Mr. Patel actually said himself. Facts matter,” she said, pounding the desk.

Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal claimed Kash Patel is not qualified to serve as Director of the FBI. Yet, most of us remember the video of Richard Blumenthal claiming that he served in Vietnam… when he never served in Vietnam. “He is a LYING political HACK, who violated the Stolen Valor Act.”

Senate Democrats only succeeded in demonstrating how terrified they are that President Trump’s nominees, when confirmed, will expose the left’s crimes and abuse of government, from the highest office in the land, through weaponizing agencies to haul Americans into phony court proceedings, to unthinkable sex trafficking children via the open border, to censoring Americans, to cover ups, treason, and the worst behavior imaginable.

As Josh Hawley said, “Kash Patel pledged to open the books on assassination attempts against Trump and all corruption within the FBI That’s the real reason Democrats want to sink his nomination They know they won’t be able to use the FBI as their personal prosecutor anymore.”

Kash Patel comported himself laudably, providing no doubt that he is qualified to be FBI Director.