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Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for FBI Director, claimed he would not go after his political enemies to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), despite Patel\u2019s past claims that he would.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Jonathan Karl on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d Fetterman said that Patel told him he would use the FBI to go after Trump\u2019s enemies, despite his comments vowing to go after Trump\u2019s political enemies.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I’m not going to go into detail, but he absolutely, \u2014 that’s never going to happen,\u201d Fetterman said when asked about Patel\u2019s past comments pledging to go after Trump\u2019s enemies. \u201cThat\u2019s not it \u2026 that’s what he claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fetterman, one of the few Democratic senators who has been meeting with Trump\u2019s Cabinet picks, said he has no regrets about meeting with some of the controversial selections. He added that he learned a lot about Patel from his meeting, including that he used to be a public defender and his own family\u2019s immigration story.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is going to be some [nominees] that I will vote yes, and there’s some, maybe that I’ll vote no,\u201d Fetterman said. \u201cBut nobody can accuse me of just saying I had a closed mind, or I just said no because Trump picked this person, or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah), who will be sworn into Sen. Mitt Romney\u2019s Senate seat in the new year, said that he discussed Patel being blind to political affiliation in his new role.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, one of the most important things that I needed to hear from Kash is that he would be blind to political affiliation, because I know some of the things that he said and that have been attributed to him,\u201d Curtis said, also in an interview with Karl on \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cAnd I don’t care if they\u2019re Republicans or Democrats and we had some very specific conversations about that. And I wanted to make sure that he would be blind to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about Republicans claiming every senator should get in line with Trump and support his Cabinet picks because he has a mandate, Curtis said his son had brought up a similar concern at Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did get more votes than him in Utah. Does that give me a mandate?\u2019\u201d Curtis said he told his son.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people forget the ‘advice’ part of advice and consent. I can’t advise the president if I haven’t thoroughly talked to these people, if I haven’t investigated everything about them, if I haven’t learned their strengths and their weaknesses,\u201d Curtis said. \u201cAnd I think I owe that to the president. And I think if the better job I do, the better president he will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for FBI Director, claimed he would not go after his political enemies to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), despite Patel\u2019s past claims that he would. In an interview with Jonathan Karl on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d Fetterman said that Patel told him he would use the FBI to go after Trump\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}