During his confirmation hearing, Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, defended himself against questions regarding Trump’s pardoning of January 6 rioters.
Senator Dick Durbin pressed Patel on whether America is safer after the commutation of sentences for those involved in the January 6 riots, to which Patel referenced Biden’s decision to free far-left activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murdering two FBI agents.
“Senator, I have not reviewed all 1600 individual cases,” Patel replied.
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Dem Sen. Dick Durbin (Left) and FBI Director nominee Kash Patel (Right) (AP/Reuters)
“I have always advocated for imprisoning those that cause harm to our law enforcement and civilian communities. I also believe America is not safer because President Biden’s commutation of a man who murdered two FBI agents. Agent Coler and Williams family deserve better than to have the man that point blank range fired a shotgun into their heads and murdered them, released from prison. So it goes both ways.”
Durbin responded by downplaying the comparison between Peltier and January 6 rioters.
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