Washington-Kash Patel, nominated for President Donald Trump for a period of 10 years as director of the Federal Investigation Office, was distanced on Thursday for the broad forgiveness of Trump of the protesters of January 6, telling the Judicial Committee of the Senate that He did not think of the violent uproar that the assaulted police deserved a break.
“I have always rejected any violence against the application of the law, and I have included in that group specifically about any violence against the police on January 6,” Patel said during his confirmation hearing. “I do not agree with the switching of any judgment of any person who committed violence against the application of the law.”
Patel’s comments highlighted a fissure within the Republican party, and even within Trump’s own administration, about the decision of forgive practically all the defendants of January 6, except a handful whose prayers were switched. Those who obtained pellets included people who assaulted the officers and those who were armed with firearms, stunned guns, flags, canes, bear spray and much more.
Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., said during the hearing that he did not agree with Trump’s forgives of violent uproarist of January 6, and that he had been telling the officers he found in the security tickets around the Capitol In the same way.
“I have been thanking these Capitol Police officers, and I told them that I thought I really thought that the partnership of the people who hurt police officers strung,” Tillis said. “I am respectfully disagree with the president or who probably gave him advice.”
Before the pellets took place on the day of the inauguration, the now vice president JD Vance said that the violent protesters “obviously” should not be forgiven, while the nominated for Attorney General Pam Bondi said he condemned any violence against the officers.
During a heated exchange with Senator Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Patel rejected the senator’s invitation to turn around and face the Capitol Police officers in the audience room while discussing Patel’s efforts to market an interpreted song for the so -called “J6 J6 Choir.” Patel said he used to raise money for the families of the non -violent defendants of January 6. Patel said “never, never, would never accept violence against the application of the law.”
Patel only came so far in matters related to January 6: I would not clearly affirm that Trump lost the 2020 elections, but only acknowledged that Joe Biden had been president. Senator Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, described “alarming” that Patel did not answer a “simple” and “objective” question, pointing out the role played by the FBI in the electoral law.
“The FBI is the main agency responsible for investigating crimes related to elections, including fraud and denial of voting rights,” said Hirono. “Then, being able to separate the facts of conspiracy theories around the elections is something important for the director of the FBI.”
Patel’s confirmation hearing occurred in the midst of a broader effort of the Trump administration to bring radical changes to the Department of Justice and the FBI. Employees who worked on Trump’s criminal investigations have been fired. An employee of the Republican Party and an associate from Elon Musk have started working in the office before the arrival of Patel. They were told a handful of FBI leaders who would be degraded unless they chose to renounce or retire.
The former American prosecutor Matthew Graves, who supervised the investigation of January 6, told NBC News that approximately 400 cases were pending in court or were in process, but they had not yet been accused when Trump closed the riot investigation of the Capitol.
“A substantial part of those cases involved violence, and the people who participated in assaulting and resisting the officers, those people will not be responsible, and there will be no public registry created for their actions,” said Serious.
Even so, said Serious, the prosecutions created “a robust public registry of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of documents that document anyone who genuinely worries the facts” about what happened that day.
The United States District Judge, Paul L. Friedmann, wrote in an order on Thursday that there was a statement in Trump’s forgive , often with “powerful testimony of the agents of the law” and “and” and “and” hundreds of hours of shocking videos of assaults in the Capitol and those who try to protect it. “Trump’s claims about the management of cases From January 6, he wrote, it was simply false.
“There has been no ‘serious national injustice’. And just because the president signed the proclamation does not transform down or down as if he looked through Alicia’s vessel in Wonderland,” Friedmann wrote. “The bulky records created in these cases and with considerations considered with sentences imposed by the judges of this court will reflect forever that at a tumultuous moment after the events of January 6, 2021, this Court was at all times a place of law And a fact. “
