Rantz: Patty Murray walks into a buzzsaw, gets humiliated by FBI Director Kash Patel
May 9, 2025, 5:07 AM

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Republicans are meeting as the Trump administration faces blowback after defense plans that were posted in a group chat including top cabinet officials on the Signal app were accidentally shared with Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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In what was supposed to be a high-profile grilling of the newly appointed FBI Director Kash Patel, Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) ended up getting humiliated by her own arrogance and stunning lack of self-awareness.
Murray, like so many of her Democrat colleagues, tried to manufacture a scandal where there isn鈥檛 one. Her strategy? Gaslight America into believing Patel is politicizing the FBI, when in reality, he鈥檚 the guy cleaning up the toxic mess left behind by the very people now pretending to care about 鈥減oliticization.鈥
鈥淵ou have placed on leave FBI employees responsible for the investigation of January 6. That sounds political to me,鈥 she claimed鈥攂ecause holding agents accountable for ethical violations is now 鈥減olitical,鈥 as long as they鈥檙e Democrats’ ideological allies.
Patel wasn鈥檛 having it.
鈥淚 have not placed anyone on leave who has not violated their ethical obligation or their oath,鈥 he fired back. 鈥淚 think the common theme here is you putting words in my mouth, and I鈥檓 not going to tolerate it, nor will the men and women of the FBI.”
Patty Murray is out of her league.
鈥 Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz)
It was a quick knock out for Kash Patel against Patty Murray
This is what Democrats do: they accuse their political opponents of the very corruption they themselves perfected. They screech about 鈥渞etribution鈥 when, in fact, Kash Patel is the walking, talking evidence of an FBI that was weaponized鈥攁gainst him, against President Donald Trump, against half the country.
鈥淚f you want to talk about someone who was attacked by a weaponized Bureau, you鈥檙e looking at him,鈥 Patel reminded her. 鈥淎nd now he鈥檚 the director of the FBI, and he鈥檚 cleaning it up.”
Patel previously confirmed that he was subject to a subpoena and forced to testify to a federal grand jury in former special counsel Jack Smith鈥檚 investigation into Trump.
When losing a narrative, Patty Murray rewrites history
Murray鈥檚 final sputter was a laughable attempt to reclaim the narrative: 鈥淭he FBI needs to be focused on its mission鈥 It should not be weaponized for partisan political gain.鈥
How rich coming from a party that looked the other way while the FBI lied to a FISA court to spy on a Trump campaign associate, fed disinformation to the media, and turned the bureau into a bludgeon for progressive politics.
Trump himself was the poster child for what happens when the FBI gets politicized by Democrats鈥攕pied on with bogus FISA warrants, smeared with a phony dossier funded by his political opponents, and relentlessly targeted by partisan agents hellbent on stopping his presidency before it even began. The same Democrats now whining about 鈥渞etribution鈥 were cheering when the Bureau acted like the DNC鈥檚 private police force.
It’s time for a housecleaning
What鈥檚 happening now isn鈥檛 politicization. It鈥檚 housecleaning.
And Democrats hate it鈥攂ecause for the first time in years, their hold over the federal law enforcement apparatus is slipping. Kash Patel, one of the few people in Washington who鈥檚 actually been victimized by a corrupt FBI, is now in charge. And he鈥檚 not playing their game.
He鈥檚 playing by the rules. That鈥檚 what terrifies them.
Murray thought she鈥檇 catch Patel in a gotcha moment. Instead, she got exposed as an unserious partisan more interested in protecting the legacy of a politicized bureau than defending the country from actual threats.
And just like that, the interrogator became the embarrassed.
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