{"id":29981,"date":"2025-02-17T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularnews71.net\/?p=29981"},"modified":"2025-02-17T21:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:04:15","slug":"gops-blackburn-says-schiff-dems-fear-patel-as-fbi-director-over-russiagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popularnews71.net\/?p=29981","title":{"rendered":"GOP\u2019s Blackburn Says Schiff, Dems Fear Patel As FBI Director Over \u2018Russiagate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container fullwidth-featured-area-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Adam-Schiff.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Adam-Schiff.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Adam-Schiff-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Adam-Schiff-1024x552.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Adam-Schiff-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Adam-Schiff-1536x828.jpg 1536w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"863\" data-main-img=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"single-caption-text\">\u00a0Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content container\">\n<div id=\"main-content-row\" class=\"tie-row main-content-row\">\n<div class=\"main-content tie-col-md-8 tie-col-xs-12\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"the-post\" class=\"container-wrapper post-content tie-standard\">\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"ns-buttons ns-inline large ns-no-print\">\n<div class=\"ns-buttons-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) stated on Sunday that Democrats, including California Sen. Adam Schiff, \u201cfear\u201d the possibility of Kash Patel leading the FBI because he is aware of their involvement in Russiagate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, too, they are very fearful of Kash Patel, because Kash Patel knows what Adam Schiff and some of the others did with Russia collusion, and they know that he knows \u2014 the dirt on them, if you will \u2014 and I think they\u2019re fearful of what he\u2019s going to do and what he\u2019s going to reveal,\u201d Blackburn\u00a0told\u00a0\u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that Democrats recognize that \u201cPatel is very devoted to\u00a0bringing transparency to what\u2019s going on in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/video-embed.html?video_id=6367797793112&amp;loc=conservativebrief.com&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativebrief.com%2Fgops-fear-89504%2F&amp;_xcf=\" width=\"466\" height=\"263\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"video embed\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Blackburn also addressed these alleged concerns during remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee late last month after Patel\u2019s confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve listened to my Democratic colleagues in their comments this morning, you can hear the anger and the displeasure with having Kash Patel before us. But I think it\u2019s important to realize why Kash Patel is there and why President Trump chose to nominate Kash Patel,\u201d she\u00a0began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people are sick and tired of two tiers of access, two tiers of treatment, and two tiers of justice. And during the Biden years, this was writ large in the actions of the DOJ and the FBI. We have all seen it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, when Mr. Patel was before us, before I started my questioning, I asked him a question that came from listening to my Democratic colleagues as they were questioning him,\u201d Blackburn continued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it was, why do the Democrats fear him? Why do they fear him? And I think the answer is so very apparent. They fear him because, yes, indeed, he is out of the box. They fear him because of what he knows about Russia collusion, what he knows about some of the activity that has taken place,\u201d she charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they fear him because he is going to return the FBI to its core mission, investigating violent crimes and keeping our nation safe. Now, I\u2019m pleased that he\u2019s going to focus on violent crime. We know that, under President Trump, violent crime was down 17 percent,\u201d Blackburn added.<\/p>\n<p>During his hearings, Patel promised Blackburn that, as FBI director, he would \u201cdo everything\u201d to help her expose Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s files, particularly his client list.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Republican questioned Patel on how he would handle the Epstein case. The disgraced sex-trafficking financier died in 2019 while awaiting trial. Last year, nearly 200 previously redacted names from court documents in a lawsuit against his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, were made public.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn indicated that there is still more to learn, including the identities of those who were on his plane and any accomplices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to talk to you about the Epstein case. I have worked on this for years trying to get those records of who flew on\u00a0Epstein\u2019s plane\u00a0and who helped him build this international human trafficking sex trafficking ring,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, earlier, I urged then-Chairman [Dick] Durbin [D-Ill.] to subpoena those records, and I ended up being blocked by Senator Durbin and Christopher Wray. They stonewalled on this,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I know that breaking up these trafficking rings is important to President Trump. So will you work with me on this issue? So we know who worked with Jeffrey Epstein in building these sex trafficking rings?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, Senator,\u201d Patel responded. \u201cChild sex trafficking has no place in the United States of America. And I will do everything, if confirmed as FBI director, to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened in the past and how we are going to counterman missing children and exploited children going forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Getty Images Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) stated on Sunday that Democrats, including California Sen. 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