There’s a lot that’s unsettling about Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel. The Pace University School of Law grad has been a proponent of “Deep State” conspiracy theories and is rumored to have an enemies list (he denies his list of “corrupt actors” from the “deep state” is an enemies list as such). He’s proposed deep shakeups at the FBI, which House Democrats say could “jeopardize our national security, leaving the FBI with no experienced senior leadership and a partisan Trump loyalist heading up the Bureau’s response to increasing security threats from Russia, China, and other authoritarian adversaries.”
He produced a version of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” that featured the J6 Prison Choir. Patel threatened to go after the media, saying, “We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly. We’ll figure that out. But yeah, we’re putting you all on notice.”
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While horrifying, those escapades aren’t quite as bizarre as the trio of children’s books in the Plot Against the King series published by Christian publisher Brave Books. As reported by Rebecca Onion at Slate:
One book fictionalizes Russiagate and the Steele dossier, the second does the same with the 2020 election, and the third covers the Department of Justice’s lawsuits against Donald Trump. In each, the wizard Kash—all-knowing, all-discerning, bearing the sobriquet the “Distinguished Discoverer”—does battle against the enemies of the “merchant Donald,” who becomes “King Donald” after the people of the kingdom vote for him on “Choosing Day.”
These books read like someone fed storylines from the Trump era into an A.I. trained on MAGA posts on social media and gave it the command: “Tell this as a medieval story in a slightly funny way.” Democrat Adam Schiff plays a part in books one and three, first as “the shifty knight,” then a “shifty jester,” and then just as “Shifty.” The media are “heralds” who hate King Donald and accept any lie about him that Shifty tells. Hillary Clinton is “Hillary Queenton,” Biden is “Baron Von Biden,” Kamala Harris is “Comma-la-la-la,” and Mark Zuckerberg — who gets a cameo thanks to the Trumpworld idea that he participated in the 2020 election fraud — is “Mischievous Metamark.” The DOJ is a “Dragon of Jalapeños,” who gets small as a dog before eating hot peppers, then bigger when he’s fed some, until he breathes fire.
Perhaps we should just appreciate Patel’s honesty in declaring Donald Trump’s desire to be King — 22nd Amendment be damned.
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