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   Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:19 JST Jonathan

   Kash Patel thread 🧵

   Ah, Kash Patel was a board member of Truth Social before Trump announced he would be head of the FBI.

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:16 JST Jonathan

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     Oh good he just disclosed he received money from Russians.

     https://www.newsweek.com/kash-patel-fbi-russia-film-payment-2028232

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:17 JST Jonathan

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     ... According to the Atlantic, Patel was never asked to join the trial team. And the New York Times reports that it’s simply not true that the Justice Department only pursued a single prosecution related to the attack. As early as 2013, according to the Times, the Justice Department had already filed sealed complaints against about a dozen militants."
     https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-patel-dossier

     They're all liars, all the time, about everything.

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:17 JST Jonathan

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     "Bolton describes his reluctance to hire Patel, even at Trump’s urging, citing his “utter lack of policy credential,” his “puffery,” and his proclivity for “resume inflation.”"

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:17 JST Jonathan

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     He sounds like he has issues of paranoia.

     "We were actually supportive and sympathetic,” one former colleague recalled. “But he had a conspiracy theory that the US attorney’s office had set him up and he wanted us to get vengeance.”

     https://abc17news.com/politics/national-politics/cnn-us-politics/2024/12/09/someone-who-sees-enemies-everywhere-how-kash-patels-years-as-a-government-lawyer-fueled-his-disdain-for-washington-elites/

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:18 JST Jonathan

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     Trump said this about Kash's book

     "A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People…we will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!”
     - Donald J Trump

     The book is on Amazon you can see the review there.

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:18 JST Jonathan

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     "According to reporting published in multiple media outlets, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, and MotherJones, Patel exaggerated his role in the Benghazi investigation and misrepresented the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute individuals involved in the attacks. While Patel did work on the Benghazi investigation, the prosecution was led by representatives from the U.S. Attorney’s Office—not Main Justice, where Patel worked. ...

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:19 JST Jonathan

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     Government gangsters

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 05:09:19 JST Jonathan

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     As in, he wrote a book called government gangsters which listed all the people he will presumably go after.

     Every accusation is a confession with these people.

     Here is Kash's Truth Social profile page