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Fetterman: Kash Patel Told Me He Won't Go After Trump's 'Enemies List'
Sen. John Fetterman has met with multiple Trump nominees and said he will support some of the people Trump has nominated.
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Sen. John Fetterman said that Kash Patel, Donald Trump‘s nominee to lead the FBI, assured him he will not be targeting Trump’s enemies.
Patel has “talked about going after Trump’s enemies,” ABC’s Jonathan Karl said to Fetterman during an interview that aired Sunday on This Week. Fetterman recently met with Patel to discuss his nomination.
“Yeah, and… we’ve had conversations, but … all of these interviews were all off the record,” Fetterman said of meeting with Patel. “So I’m not going to go into detail, but — but he absolutely… that, that’s — you know, that’s never going to happen, you know, like he was — he was very looking forward to that.”
“He’s not going to use the FBI to go after Trump’s enemies?” Karl asked.
“Yeah — no, that’s not it,” the senator said.
Many view Patel as an extremist who could use the FBI to carry out Trump’s personal vendettas. Patel is an election denier who has previously defended QAnon and said he wants to get rid of the so-called “Deep State.” Patel sued current FBI Director Christopher Wray along with former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein and top Department of Justice officials in 2023, claiming they violated his Fourth Amendment right to privacy by subpoenaing his private emails in 2017. The case was dismissed in September.
“We will go out and find the conspirators — not just in government, but in the media,” Patel said during the 2024 campaign.
But rather than resurfacing Patel’s troubling past statements and actions, Fetterman highlighted Patel’s immigration story. “I found out, you know, his family’s origin story and immigration,” Fetterman said. “And we talked about that, and my wife, my family immigration and things. And so I learned things about him. I never knew that he was a public defender.”
Trump and Elon Musk apparently liked Fetterman’s comments about Patel so much, they tweeted them out. Trump’s campaign posted a video of Fetterman’s interview where he spoke about Patel and his family. That video was also shared by Musk’s political action committee, America PAC.
