Newsmax’s role as the Trump Regime Media in touting Donald Trump’s cabinet picks continued with the nomination of Kash Patel as FBI director. Things began with a wire article, followed by MIchael Savage, of all people, dialing back Trump’s words on FBI changes:
Statements made by Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI, that he would shut down the FBI’s Hoover Building and send its employees across America to “go be cops” will never come true, Michael Savage, host of the “Savage Nation” podcast, told Newsmax Sunday.
“That’s a campaign promise that’s never going to happen. You’re not shutting down the FBI building,” Savage said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “It’s actually ridiculous to suggest that every FBI agent is an enemy of the people. That’s not true at all.”
[…]The problem with campaign promises is that people “shouldn’t overexpect too much from any of the folks who are telling them things like this,” Savage added. “You can write this down. If I’m wrong, never have me back on the show. He’s not closing down the FBI building.”
Then came the usual collection of Trump lackeys and talking heads:
- Pete King to Newsmax: Patel’s ‘Bravado’ Needed to Lead FBI
- GOP Sens Support Patel as ‘Type of Change’ Needed at FBI
- Sen. Blackburn Eager to Confirm Patel as FBI Head
- Former FBI Special Agent to Newsmax: Patel Will Fix Broken Agency
- Rep. Van Duyne to Newsmax: Far Left ‘Freaked Out’ by FBI Pick
- Former Special Agent: Patel ‘Right Fix’ for FBI
- National Police Association Endorses Patel for FBI Chief
- UFPO Backs Kash Patel for FBI Director Amid Confirmation Bid
- Jason Miller to Newsmax: Kash Patel ‘Eminently Qualified’ for FBI Director
- Sen. Tuberville to Newsmax: FBI Needs Kash Patel to Shake Things Up
Newsmax did let a couple dissenting voices sneak in:
- Patel Pick Draws Fire From Democrats, Some Republicans
- Former CIA, FBI Head to Senate: Reject Patel, Gabbard
- Sen. Thune: Not Sure All GOP Will OK Trump Picks
Newsmax columnists weighed in too, of course. Michael Letts — he of the pending criminal charges — gushed over Patel in a Dec. 4 column:
Donald Trump is just about fed up with the damage President Joe Biden has done to this country. And that includes the people who have led law enforcement agencies during his tenure.
Last Saturday, Trump announced that he will put Kash Patel in the position of the director of the FBI, replacing Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump appointed to a 10-year term during his first presidency.
Patel previously worked as a national security aide, and Trump considers him “a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People.”
Patel has vowed to make big changes to the FBI — for one, potentially shuttering their headquarters “on day one” and sending employees across the country.
Michael Dorstewitz similarly opined in a Dec. 13 column:
Phil Holloway, a Townhall columnist and host of “Inside the Law,” connected the dots.
“Now we know the real reason Christopher Wray is resigning,” he said.
And that’s why we need an outsider like Kash Patel to run and clean out the bureau.
He’s a former DOJ prosecutor and former deputy to the Director of National Intelligence, so he’s not unfamiliar with Washington. But as an FBI outsider his loyalty would be more to the American people than it would be to the bureau — the exact opposite of Wray.
This week we’ve seen politicians and media figures condemn a young New York subway hero for coming to the aid of his fellow passengers, while celebrating another young man for murdering an insurance executive in cold blood.
Hopefully, an outsider taking over the reins of the bureau will be one step, however small it may be, to restoring decency to the nation.
Dorstewitz began his column, however, by citing conspiracy-obsessed right-wing reporter Julie Kelly complaining that there were a small number of confidential human sources used by the FBI during the Capitol riot, insisting that this is “why we need an outsider like Kash Patel to run and clean out the bureau.”