Trump announces he intends to replace current FBI director with loyalist Kash Patel

Source: CNN

Updated 7:45 PM EST, Sat November 30, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he intends to nominate Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, in an extraordinary announcement that once in office Trump would move to replace the current director, Christopher Wray, before his term expires.

“I am proud to announce that Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday evening.

“Kash will work under our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI,” Trump added.

Wray has three years remaining in his 10-year term and would have to resign or be fired to create a vacancy. Trump nominated Wray in 2017 after firing James Comey, but he began to sour on Wray before he left office in 2021. Trump’s view of the FBI only worsened after his Mar-a-Lago resort was searched in August 2022, and Trump was later indicted for allegedly retaining classified documents.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/politics/kash-patel-fbi-director-trump/index.html

The fat lady has sung.

The grand old man!!! Joe! Joe! Joe!!!!!

I just realized that I've watched 19 DNCs in my lifetime.

Yeah, I'm old, but I was only seven years old when I became a convention junkie, and compared to the Republicans, the DNC was the only game in town! The color, the excitement, the life of the Democratic Party spilled through our 14" black and white tv and into our living room. We didn't get to see the smoke filled rooms, but the hours long demonstrations for the different presidential contenders (still undecided or just semi-secret? I didn't know. I was just seven, after all) impressed the heck out of me. They played the conventions all day and long into the night. A lot must have been past my bedtime, but I still remember watching both Stevenson and Eisenhower's speeches. I doubt I understood much of what they said, but I was hooked and I've watched long through the night ever since.

I remember most vividly when John F Kennedy was introduced to the nation with his brilliant keynote speech at the DNC in 1956. I was 11 and so excited I jumped up and down on our poor couch for much of it. (I was 5'2" and 110 pounds and the couch was far from new.)
He was instantly a leading candidate for the Vice Presidency because Stevenson had left the nomination open for the convention to fill. Talk about breathless excitement! It felt like I was counting the votes right along with Bobby.

And then it was 1960, which was by far the most exciting of my life. I was 15 and could stuff envelopes in my local party office, which meant I actually got to see my idol in person from the third or fourth balcony of the old Chicago Stadium, just a few days before the election.

I've watched every one of the DNCs since then, cheering on our nominees (though I couldn't get excited about Hubert Humphrey after Bobby's assassination). I'm over the moon about Kamala, and I will always adore Obama, but nothing will ever top the 1960 convention -- not for me, at least.

Here's to the DNC!
hedda

He's Losing His Mind --new parody song by Sandy Ricardi

The pig has been practicing and so far sounds better than he should.

Horrible.

Stephen Colbert interviews Trump juror #11!

Post numbers are not showing up for me.

This is only happening on my Windows 10 desktop, but I thought I should post about it in any case.

Thanks,
Hedda

For House Republicans, failure is the only option

DU4 is not formatting properly on my Kindle Fire.

I've never had a problem with DU4 on Kindle before, but this morning it suddenly shifted to what looks like plain HTML. The whole page is there but the formatting has gone away so everything lays out vertically on Latest. Threads don't seem to format at all.