Witnesses in a House Republican hearing just admitted taking payments from a children’s book author that served as a Trump White House National Security Council staffer.
House Republicans attempting to portray the FBI as “weaponized” during a committee hearing accidentally revealed themselves to be paid shills for Donald Trump.
Kash Patel is the author of “The Plot Against the King: Part 2, 2,000 Mules,” a hideous children’s book based on election lies. The two witnesses at today’s hearing admitted that the current Truth Social board member Patel pays them money, leading to a real grilling.
That’s the plotline of this week’s show from the GOP’s amateur dinner theater group known as the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” put on a pathetically performative political play for an audience of one on Thursday.
Call it The Hardly Boys in ‘The Case of the Missing Whistleblower.’
Committee Chair Rep. Jim “Gym” Jordan (R-Ohio State showers) certainly takes his leading role seriously.
When he’s not trying to scapegoat Hunter Biden because Donald Trump has some kind of blackmail on every Congressional Republican, Jacketless Gym is doing his wind-up monkey routine for peanuts.
Gym really leaned into the “Loud Yelly Steamroller” technique of delivering his manufactured outrage of finding who’s at fault for “weaponizing” the U.S. government.
(Spoiler alert: They could all just save us time by looking in the mirror)
Jordan’s opening monologue of nonsensical MAGA word salad tried to blame a still-unnamed whistleblower whom no one can find.
The flapping wet-mouth released an 80-page manifesto disguised as a report on the FBI ahead of the hearing.
Among the more outrageous propaganda from Jordan is the accusation that the FBI’s “partisan leadership” is currently engaging in a “purge” of agents who hold conservative political beliefs.
Jordan’s biased bs report claims the FBI “dispensed cash bonuses to local field office leadership for meeting certain arbitrary metrics and performance goals.”
“The FBI, under Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken,” the report alleges.
“The leadership at the FBI and Justice Department have weaponized federal law enforcement against everyday Americans, seeking to silence those who dare to have a different viewpoint.”
Except the hearing really didn’t go the way they’d all rehearsed it. Mainly because they forgot about the part where House Democrats get to ask questions.
Enter Rep. Daniel Goldman!
He is the freshman NY Congressman who’s also responsible for the House Ethics complaint against George Santos.
Goldman improvised some very spot-on lawyering after Thomas “Dumb” Massie gave him a perfect “Yes, and” to build on.
I can’t help but imagine Jim Jordan tearing off pieces of his report with his teeth after Goldman got a witness to admit they’d been paid off by Trump aide Kash Patel.
Twitter was serving up the schadenfreude for anyone who wanted to share. Also, can you please hurry up with that Jim Jordan project for HBO, George Clooney?
Gym Jordan has his own rule book
He needs one of these https://t.co/lHxcRtewKr pic.twitter.com/OC5upi8i15
— Badd Company (@BaddCompani) May 18, 2023
Goldman elicits from two of the Republican witnesses that they have been paid by Kash Patel pic.twitter.com/kG6N8OW2qA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2023
Gym Jordan has his own rule book
He needs one of these https://t.co/lHxcRtewKr pic.twitter.com/OC5upi8i15
— Badd Company (@BaddCompani) May 18, 2023
There must be somebody in Washington who can finally shut Jim Jordan’s lying yapping wetmouth instead of waiting for George Clooney to do it 🤬 #GymJordan https://t.co/TkbuE55faS
— Tara Dublin ((isn’t paying for this)) 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻 (@taradublinrocks) May 18, 2023
Kash Patel is a political hack for Donald Trump, under investigation by the DOJ for leaking classified information.
Today’s @Weaponization's witnesses were bought and paid for by Patel.
This committee is simply an arm of Trump’s criminal defense team. pic.twitter.com/nwnhVvtIJl
— Rep. Dan Goldman (@RepDanGoldman) May 18, 2023
Kash Patel gave a “donation” to a “whistleblower.” My friend @AVindman didn’t get any donations. He did his duty. This is all a fraud. https://t.co/us1CZlhQBw
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) May 18, 2023
Amazing. Kash Patel has been a Kremlin asset working for Mike Flynn and Devin Nunes since 2016.
One of the witnesses is represented by the same lawyer suing me for @GenFlynn. How is this real life? https://t.co/nQA8AFFJPb
— Jim Stewartson, Anti-disinfo activist 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙 (@jimstewartson) May 18, 2023
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