Kash Patel´s podcast persona: staunch Trump defender and fierce...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The vast catalog of provocative public statements, sometimes made in the company of like-minded FBI antagonists, provides an unusually extensive record of a nominee´s unvarnished and controversial worldviews.
49% : (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)FILE - Kash Patel, former chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, speaks at a rally in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8, 2022.
41% : "What will a Director Patel say if Democrats push to limit funding for his flights on FBI jets?"Once President Trump hopefully gets back in power, there´ll be an investigation into members of Congress who destroyed and withheld evidence from law enforcement agencies," Patel said in March 2024 on "In the Litter Box w/ Jewels and Catturd.
38% : Days after Trump´s June 2023 indictment on charges of hoarding the documents, Patel insisted to listeners of his "Kash´s Corner" podcast that Trump was permitted under a law known as the Presidential Records Act to take classified records with him when he left the White House.
34% : He has also threatened reporters with serious consequences for crossing Trump.
33% : The pardons, sentence commutations and indictment dismissals upended the largest investigation in Justice Department history, benefiting even those found guilty of violent attacks on police, along with leaders of far-right extremist groups who plotted to keep Trump in power.
31% : Trump faced felony charges in the two cases, but the indictments were abandoned by prosecutors after he won the November election because of Justice Department policy prohibiting the federal prosecution of a sitting president.
27% : An Associated Press review of more than 100 podcasts that Patel hosted or on which he was interviewed over the last four years reveals how Patel has habitually denigrated the investigations into Trump, sowed doubt in the criminal justice system, criticized the decision-making of the institution he´s been asked to lead and professed sympathy for jailed Jan 6.
26% : He's boasted about having helped produce a song, "Justice for All," that was recorded over a prison phone line, sung by a group of Jan. 6 defendants and overlaid with Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
23% : Like Trump, Patel has channeled particular ire toward the House committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol.
17% : The recently departed FBI director, Christopher Wray, bluntly labeled the violence as "domestic terrorism" and has called the attack emblematic of a rapidly growing threat of homegrown extremism.Patel, like Trump, has taken a different view, saying the rioters have been mistreated by the criminal justice system.
15% : "We´re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections," Patel told Steve Bannon, a Trump ally who served four months in prison for defying a congressional subpoena and who has also warned about retribution against Trump adversaries, in December 2023.

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