Tim Miller: Kash Patel Is the Trump Nominee That’s ‘the Most Dangerous’ to Our Democracy

STEIN: “Tim, we talked a bit about this, you and I, about the overloading of the system, basically, in which case Senate Republicans are just sort of overwhelmed by it. They maybe want to defeat one or two of them, but they are not going to defeat all of them. How do you see this playing out on the Hill? Are they just going to say, ‘Okay, we will give you RFK Jr., we will give you Tulsi Gabbard, but please, no Kash Patel?’ Or is this just — is there enough backbone there, do you think, to defeat multiple nominees?”
MILLER: “I don’t know, I think it’s possible. Look, we saw with Matt Gaetz already, and I was actually surprised how quickly that happened. To me, Kash Patel, and I don’t say this lightly, is the most dangerous nominee that we have seen yet to our democracy. And you might think that having Pete Hegseth running the military is a greater level of danger because of his lack of experience, or Tulsi Gabbard at intelligence, but just as far as the threats to democracy that we were warning about before the election, Kash Patel was a key player inside the Trump White House pushing for and orchestrating the coup attempt in 2020. He was trying to completely take control of the Justice Department at the time, he was Trump’s top lieutenant who was willing to do anything and advance any lie in service of his attempt to overturn that last election, to such a degree that there were many people that were Trump appointees in 2020 who were staying around and saying, ‘No,’ like, standing in the breach and saying, ‘No, not Kash Patel. You cannot put Kash Patel as a temporary leader of the Justice Department,’ etc. These are Trump appointees. So, you know, we will see what happens in the Senate, but if Trump did have people around him that were quasi-loyalists that were like, ‘That guy is too far,’ who knows what that will mean for the Senate?”