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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.”
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.
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of
The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of
Thinking
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A
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