FBI Director Kash Patel’s Senate hearing on Tuesday was dominated by several shouting matches with Senate Democrats, including tense back-and-forths with Sens. Adam Schiff and Cory Booker.
The tiff with Schiff began when the California Democrat asked Patel why convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a lower-security prison after meeting with the Justice Department in early August. In a follow-up question, Schiff asked Patel whether he thought the American public was “stupid” enough to believe that the Bureau of Prisons decided alone to move Maxwell, independent of political pressure.
“What I am doing is protecting this country … and combating the weaponization of intelligence by the likes of you,” Patel replied, interrupting Schiff. “We have countlessly proven you to be a liar in Russiagate, in Jan. 6. You are the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate.”