Red flag raised over limits Bondi will face in handcuffing Kash Patel at FBI
During an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday morning, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) raised the prospect that Donald Trump's nominee to head up the FBI can easily go rogue on his putative boss if he chooses to persecute the president-elect's enemies.
Speaking with the co-hosts on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Blumenthal was asked about his questioning of attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and he was quick to say he had no faith in her ability to resist any demands Trump would make of her.
Adding to that, he noted that, if Bondi and Kash Patel are both confirmed, she would be his boss but she would also be limited in her ability to rein him in.
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"We should also just note that Pam Bondi yesterday said she wasn't aware of any Kash Patel enemies list," co-host Jonathan Lemire prompted his guest. "Again, he wrote it down, it's actually in his book there in the black and white. So let's let's spin this forward a little bit then: from what you heard from attorney general candidate Bondi, do you have confidence on two things? Do you have confidence that first, she will be able to rein in Kash Patel? And secondly, the question you just posed, would she say no to Donald Trump?"
"I have no confidence whatsoever that she will be able to restrict Kash Patel," Blumenthal shot back. "The position of director is supposed to be independent; she has limited kinds of resources to rein him in, and he can start investigations without even informing her office about beginning them."
"And second, on her independence. I think that's the key question that you've raised, and I have no confidence that she will refuse to put Donald Trump ahead of the American people. She has to be the people's lawyer, she has to tell truth to power," he added.
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