A confessed criminal who managed to avoid consequence by accepting an unprecedented preemptive pardon from former President Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump’s choice for FBI director, Kash Patel, for exercising his civil right not to bear witness against himself during a secretive Star Chamber inquisition by disgraced ex-special prosecutor Jack Smith.
“Mr. Patel may be, I don’t know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th,” Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., suggested during Thursday’s confirmation hearing.
Senator Adam Schiff torched Kash Patel:
"Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th."
BOOM!
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) January 30, 2025
Schiff—who forced black, female Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., to step aside and make way for him to fill the seat left open by the late Dianne Feinstein—kicked off his career in Congress’s upper chamber last week with the dubious distinction of becoming the first sitting U.S. senator ever to accept a criminal pardon.
Despite efforts by the Biden administration to gaslight the public, a 1915 Supreme Court ruling makes clear that pardon recipients must affirmatively accept them and, in doing so, thereby acknowledge the underlying guilt for which they are receiving clemency.
In the case of Schiff, the pardon is narrowly tailored to his work on then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s partisan Jan. 6 committee. […]
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