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MAGA Loyalists Come Undone, Turn On Trump’s FBI Director Over Charlie Kirk Investigation Posts: ‘Terrible At Your Job’

Some MAGA faithful are losing patience with FBI Director Kash Patel.

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Kash Patel started his political career as a Republican Congressional staffer during Donald Trump’s first term as president, and became a pro-MAGA media gadfly during the Biden years, often stoking conspiracy theories online. He even wrote a pro-Trump children’s book.

After Trump won again, Patel was nominated and confirmed as FBI director, a position that comes with a ten-year term. Patel does not have a background that has anything in common with any previous FBI director, nor has he ever led a bureaucracy anywhere close to the size of the FBI.

In his first six months, Patel has sometimes drawn the ire of Trump loyalists, especially over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Yesterday morning, news outlets reported that some fired FBI employees had sued Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, alleging that Patel had “explained he had to fire the people his superiors told him to fire, because his ability to keep his own job depended on the removal of the agents who worked on cases involving the President.”

And now, following the assassination on Wednesday of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, Patel’s performance has come in for criticism, among MAGA acolytes, as well as Trump opponents.

A high-profile public shooting event is something where it’s important that the FBI does a good job and knows what they’re doing. It doesn’t appear that Patel did that. And MAGA, in particular, is angry.

Mediaite reported that “The MAGA faithful are piling on FBI Director Kash Patel after he marked the arrest of a suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination on social media Wednesday night,” while later announcing that  “the subject in custody has been released.”

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Stephen Silver

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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