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FBI director Kash Patel He offered a severe message to the media moments after having sworn as the ninth leader of the main agency for the application of the Law of the Nation.
“Look, I know the media are here, and if you have a goal, the goal is here,” Patel said on Friday while pointing to himself. “They are not the men and women of the FBI.”
“You have written everything you can about me that is false, malicious, softer and defamatory. It continues to come. It brings, but leaves the men and women of the FBI. They deserve better,” Patel told mediaapplause from your followers in the room.
The FBI director, Kash Patel, told the media “bring him” moments after he was sworn in office. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
Patel addressed his critics who believe there will be a “two -level justice system.”
“Not with Attorney General Bondi,” he told the skeptics. “There is a singular system of justice for all Americans, and there will be responsibility.”
“We will keep the Constitution. We will keep the Constitution. The men and women of the FBI, support me because you have the back of the American people,” he said. “It will have the same high level. Any deviation of that standard will not be tolerated in this Federal Research Office.”
Kash Patel is sworn as director of the FBI by the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, in the Indian Treaty Chamber in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House Campus in Washington, DC , USA, February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
Patel was confirmed by the United States Senate In a 51–49 vote on Thursday.
The republican sensor Susan Collins de Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined the Democrats to oppose their nomination, while Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican. and Tulsi Gabbard, voted in favor of Trump’s election for the FBI director.
Patel is expected to review the FBI, since Republicans have long accused the agency to be plagued by political motivations. Now he will begin to fulfill his 10 -year mandate.
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Patel faced a hard confirmation hearing after being nominated by President Trump. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
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During his oath ceremony, Patel expressed his gratitude to Trump, his family and the senators who voted for his confirmation, saying that they had made a “huge jump of faith.”
“I am living the American dream, and anyone who thinks that the American dream is dead, just look here. You are talking to a first -generation Indian child who is about to lead the community of application of the law of the greatest nation of The Green Earth of God. That cannot happen anywhere else, “Patel said.
