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Feb. 24, 2025 - The David Knight Show
13:24
Patel: Angel of Vengeance or FBI Savior?
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We've got a lot of criminal actions that were conducted under the Biden administration, weaponized against Trump, against his supporters.
And the question is, is he going to do something about it?
Well, I hope so.
But it's very important that when he does something about it, that it be seen as reform and not as revenge.
But I said, and I still believe this, I said, Trump will go out of his way to make even reform look like revenge.
Because that makes him personally powerful.
He's about making himself powerful, not the Constitution, folks.
That's the key difference.
And so, for all the people who think that I'm going to come around to Trump, even if he does the right reform, if he's doing it and it's perceived as revenge, and he can't help himself from doing that, that's a negative thing.
Because now what we are moving towards is a situation where after each election, you lock up your opponent.
That's a precedent that Biden started, and Trump needs to push back on that in a principled way, Trump and his other people.
So reason is saying, well, is that what Kash Patel is going to do?
Which is he going to do?
Because he's been talking about nothing but revenge, just like Trump.
They said before last fall's election, Kash Patel assured Trump's supporters that the former and future president's enemies would get their comeuppance once he was back in power.
Patel, a former federal prosecutor who held various national security positions during Trump's first term, said a second Trump administration would, quote, come after, unquote, the deep state, quote, unquote, agents, including journalists.
As well as former federal officials who supposedly had conspired to undermine democracy by opposing the president's agenda.
You see, when he's coming after journalists, there's a lot of different ways they can come after journalists.
You take a look at CBS. Can people not distinguish what CBS is saying is false or not?
And so Trump, out of personal revenge, decided that he was going to sue them because he didn't like the way they did the Lala Harris interview.
He said, you edited that to make her look good.
Because they had two different clips of one answer that she gave.
And when they got the records that he demanded in the lawsuit, when they got the records, you could see that she gave this long answer.
They used part of the long meandering answer in promo and then the other one for the program.
But as Reason said, neither of these things...
She didn't say anything in either of them.
One of them was more succinct nonsense, saying nothing.
And the other one was rambling nonsense, saying nothing.
But she said nothing in either of them.
And that's the kind of editing that people always do for conciseness and for time limits.
And so there wasn't any intention of deception.
But it was Trump's ego.
And so as a result, he...
Put a big lawsuit against them for tens of billions of dollars.
He doubled it just recently.
And then he weaponized the FCC against CBS and said, we need to get their license.
And you've got all of the MAGA people saying, we need to get their license.
We need to get their license.
How are you going to feel about it when the next Democrat gets in and shuts down Fox News or Newsmax or whatever?
Take their license.
Can't we distinguish what is true and what's not true?
You see, that's what J.D. Vance is lecturing the European government on, and yet Trump doesn't support free speech.
He doesn't support the First Amendment.
He doesn't support the Second Amendment.
Not at all.
When it's about his personal issue.
And when I look at this lawsuit, what is the harm that was done?
First of all, if they tried to do something for Lala Harris, that would not be an FCC issue.
That would be like a campaign contribution, an FEC issue.
Except that we have to be able to be free to discuss these things and to air our opinions.
And if you want to go back and say, well, the news needs to be completely non-biased, that's absolute nonsense.
There's no such thing as non-biased news.
And you go back and you look at the fairness doctrine that was put in.
When that was removed, oh, we've got to be balanced, we've got to be fair, and all the rest of this stuff.
Which meant that you had to...
To whatever the conventional wisdom was and the conventional narrative was at the time.
And the rise of conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest of this stuff was based on the fact that during the Reagan administration, they got rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
So, no, you can have an opinion.
It's okay to have an opinion in America.
Imagine that.
You can have a First Amendment opinion in America?
After Trump picked Patel to run the FBI. Patel repudiated his threats of retaliation.
Presenting himself as a sober and conscientious public servant who would never take retributive action or allow politics to affect decisions of the country's leading law enforcement agency.
And they said the Republican-controlled Senate, which narrowly confirmed him as FBI director on Thursday, evidently bought that transformation.
And they said soon we will know which Patel is running the FBI. The one that showed up for the Senate confirmation hearings or the one that we've seen?
Talking on podcasts and publishing books for the last couple of years.
In his podcast interviews, he comes across as a reckless partisan whose overriding concern is his loyalty to Trump.
Even all of his confirmation hearings, he could not bring himself to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.
If he were to do that, it wouldn't matter what the Senate voted on.
Trump would have him out of there.
Because, again, it's about his ego, his image.
Patel's dedication to Trump pervades even his children's books.
I didn't know that he wrote children's books.
Which recount the travails of King Donald.
The plot against the king.
Look at that.
Scroll up a little bit, Whistler.
Yeah, King Donald.
Wow.
Yeah, these people keep wanting to make him a king, a czar.
See, I have a real problem with that.
I have a real problem with the MAGA people wanting to do that.
So, King Donald and Patel's children's books, and of course he knows his audience, doesn't he?
The childish mentality of the MAGA cult.
He defeats his evil enemies with the help of a wizard called Cash.
He even spells it the same way, with a K. Cash.
The distinguished discoverer.
An investigator, quote, known far and wide as the one person who could discover anything about anything.
Oh, well, is that the kind of person who went running the FBI? That was kind of what J. Edgar Hoover did.
He discovered everything about everyone, especially in Washington.
He had files on everyone in Washington, so he could blackmail them.
Democrats and Republicans, from Truman to Nixon, they all said that the FBI was a Gestapo and that J. Edgar Hoover was blackmailing people left and right because he could discover anything about anyone.
That's who you want.
Somebody who writes books about himself being that person, Cash, the distinguished discoverer.
The same basic narrative underlies another book that he wrote in 2023. He called that one Government Gangsters, which describes a deep state conspiracy against Trump that Patel equates with a conspiracy to subvert democracy in the Constitution.
The book lists 60 former executive branch officials who crossed Trump in one way or the other, all of whom Patel identifies as members of this cabal, a children's book.
Yeah, it's like Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travel as a...
He's a satire, kind of an adventure.
They didn't have the genre of science fiction.
It was magic fiction back then.
But he did that because he didn't want to run afoul of the government, so he kind of quasi-disguised it.
But Kash Patel is not so subtle with his metaphors.
He doesn't even bother with metaphors.
He goes straight for the person.
He goes straight for the ad hominem.
He dispenses with similes and metaphors and goes straight ad hominem.
So, he lists all the 60 former executive branch officials who crossed Trump in one way or the other, all of them members of the cabal.
He lists Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and then Trump appointees, such as Attorney General Bill Barr, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.
Patel said, this list is not exhaustive.
It does not, for example, include other corrupt actors of the First Order, such as Congressman Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell.
Nor does it include the fake news media, which Patel also portrays as part of this conspiracy.
During his confirmation hearing, he implausibly insisted that his catalog of corrupt actors did not amount to an enemy's list, even though he put them in by name.
He said he called that a mischaracterization.
Yeah.
In case there was any doubt about his attitude toward those alleged malefactors, Patel clarified what he thought should happen to them during a December 2023 interview with Steve Bannon, who asked Patel if he could promise that there would, quote, be serious prosecutions and accountability for these deep staters.
Absolutely, Patel said.
We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media.
Yes, we're going to come after people in the media.
A war on the press as well, which we're seeing with CBS. And look, CBS has lost all credibility with me.
I don't believe a thing they say.
But I absolutely would fight to the death against Trump shutting them down and taking their license.
Don't you realize what a precedent that sets, MAGA? So what he's saying is now...
One of the other things he wants to do, he wants to move the FBI people out of Washington, D.C. because he said, I want to avoid institutional capture and put agents where they belong in everyday America, rooting out crime and securing our communities.
Will the John Birch Society come out and oppose this idea?
This is a horrible idea.
Law enforcement is not the duty of the federal government, but he wants to make it the duty of the federal government and put them at the local level, even.
And what it's going to do is going to be an institutional capture of your local sheriff is what it's going to do.
It's going to corrupt local law enforcement.
It's going to preempt local law enforcement because these people have unlimited amounts of money.
And everybody is so enamored with somebody that's got an agency.
It's got federal in the name.
And so he's going to institutionally capture local law enforcement.
Now, the John Birch Society, you know, going back to the 1950s and 60s, was on spot on.
Support your local sheriff and try to keep law enforcement local.
It's dangerous enough when it's local because we have a lot of bad sheriffs, but you have the opportunity to at least vote for them.
And it's not as bad as if you've got everything centralized.
And so they have taken the lead on that.
But now, like most conservatives...
They seem to be afraid to criticize Donald Trump.
Will they criticize at least Kash Patel for wanting to federalize all local law enforcement?
That's what we're talking about here!
Federalizing all local law enforcement.
I hope that they come out of their slumber.
On the face of it, putting a harsh FBI critic in charge of the agency is a welcome development.
But this particular critic also has a history of advocating politically motivated...
Investigations, even as he condemns them.
And you see, that's the key.
What Trump is doing on the face of it, on the face of it, looks like good stuff.
The devil's in the details.
The devil is to come, the details are coming later.
Stay at arm's length with these people.
Don't embrace them.
Don't fall at Trump's feet.
Don't fall at any...
That's right, boys and girls.
There's a post-election sale on silver and gold.
Trump euphoria has caused a dip in silver and gold.
It's time to buy some medals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense is.
Go to davidknight.gold to get in touch with the wise wolf himself, Tony Arterburn.
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