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Chuck Grassley to the criminal Christopher Wray: We no longer have any confidence in the FBI, and you must resign for the good of the nation.

Sen. Chuck Grassley demanded Monday that FBI director Christopher Wray step aside in a brutal rebuke of his tenure at the bureau, as GOP senators cheered President-elect Donald Trump's pick of Kash Patel to replace him as director.

"For the good of the country, it's time for you and your deputy to move on to the next chapter in your lives," Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in a blistering 11-page letter to Wray, referring to the director and deputy director Paul Abbate.

"[I] must express my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI."

Even Deep-State-aligned Democrats-in-GOP-clothing are getting on board due to the pressure campaign against them:

"Kash Patel will create much-needed transparency at the FBI," Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) posted Monday on X in an expression of her full support. "He shares my passion for shaking up federal agencies, downsizing the D.C. bureaucracy, and having public servants work on behalf of the American people!"

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) also broadly contended: "I expect our Republican Senate is going to confirm all of President Trump's nominees."

To install Patel at the top of the bureau, Trump, 78, will first either have to fire Wray or the FBI boss will have to resign.

"We still don't know what director Wray's plans are, but eventually, I assume that Mr. Patel will be confirmed as the next FBI director," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who made a bid in November to lead the Senate Republican conference but lost to Sen. John Thune (R-SD), told reporters after his meeting with Trump's nominee.

Ernst is even pretending she "supports" Hegseth, despite rampant rumors that she is a ringleader of the GOPe drive to Bork him and even has proposed herself as an alternative to Hegseth to run the DOD.

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Joni Ernst after her meeting today with Pete Hegseth about his nomination to become SecDef: "I appreciate Pete Hegseth's responsiveness & respect for the process... As I support Pete through this process, I look forward to a fair hearing based on truth, not anonymous sources."

Don't believe her. She's related to noted Soros ally Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

I've linked this before, but Mark Halperin lays into what he calls one of the greatest scandals in American history.

WATTERS: You, too. So [the Biden presidential] library, is he even going to get it?

HALPERIN: I mean, there will be some version, maybe more like a bookmobile than an actual library. This is not a surprise. He's never been a good fundraiser, and the donors are really annoyed.

But I will say that the donors and the Democratic officials who are now so outraged about the conduct, as you said, the press knew all this, so did they. They stood silent when Joe Biden's operatives crushed Bobby Kennedy and Dean Phillips and rigged the rules. They stood silent as he stayed in the race and decided he was going to run for another term. They stood silent when Kamala Harris was given the nomination without a shot being fired.

So I get why they're mad at Joe Biden, but I think a lot of them need to turn the clock back and imagine what they might have done differently and Joe Biden, then might be in a place to raise the money.

So I do think he'll raise some money, but as I said, he's never been a good fundraiser. It's the kind of work he doesn't like to do, and these donors blame him more than themselves.

WATTERS: Well, why didn't Chuck Todd say anything when he had a show, Mark? All of a sudden he doesn't have a show, and Joe lost, and now he's screaming from the rooftop about this and that. Why do they do that, these people?

HALPERIN: You know, I saw Joe Biden's mental acuity decline in 2017 and I talked about it on a regular basis. I can't explain it. It's some combination of Trump derangement syndrome and not wanting to be ostracized for doing anything that might help Donald Trump win.

And of course, the irony is, the reason Joe Biden is left in the position he's in, the reason Donald Trump was re-elected, there are plenty of reasons, but a big reason is the silence in the media. I've called this before. I think it's one of the biggest scandals of any sort in American history, and certainly one of the biggest media scandals, because people say, oh, they didn't see behind-the-scenes.

All you needed was a C-SPAN subscription to know that there was a level of mental decline and they stood silent.

WATTERS: There was -- right.

HALPERIN: And not just the president.

WATTERS: There is no hiding this guy.

HALPERIN: The donors -- the donors were spending times with him in living rooms. They saw, Clooney eventually came out and said it. But far too late, far too late.

Video at the link.

Trump attended the re-opening of Notre Dame while Biden remained in his basement of shame. He sent his appalling wifenurse instead.

The reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris also marked the de facto coming out of Donald Trump as leader of the free world.

His overbearing handshake with French President Emmanuel Macron sent a powerful message to the rest of the world. America is back, whether they like it or not.

As Trump is feted by world leaders and royalty in Paris, holds preliminary peace talks with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and sends his envoy to the Middle East, the inauguration next month seems like a mere formality.

Joe Biden is a pitiful afterthought in history. The ostentatiously Catholic president was somehow too busy to fit Notre-Dame into his sluggish schedule and sent his wife instead, who made googly eyes at Trump.

Trump took the opportunity of Biden's absence to cuck the aging husk. The internet exploded with commentary about the "googly eyes" Jill Biden made at Trump.

Trump even took a picture of her leering at him thirstily and used it to plug his cologne:

Sex Panther by Odeon. 60% of the time, it works every time.

Today's Democrat Party:

Marvel Comics currently has all of their characters fighting the Predator. Every major comics property has also crossed-over with the Aliens multiple times.

Superman and Batman have both fought Aliens and Predators.

All cartoon characters will fight Aliens and/or Predators. All of them.

posted by Ace at 06:34 PM

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