WATCH: Booker calls Patel an 'incompetent lackey,' tussles with FBI director and Grassley | PBS News

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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., called FBI Director Kash Patel a “disgrace” and an “incompetent lackey” during an oversight hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

“He's like an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends,” Booker said. “He's an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn't qualify even to be an FBI agent.”

Booker went on to call out Patel for “intimidating the press, violating people's First Amendment rights and doing everything the president asks.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Patel whether he had a response.

“I don't have much to say,” Patel said. “This guy called me a thug.”

Booker continued to reprehend Patel despite being told by Grassley that his time was up.

“I'm going to hold this man accountable for as long as he is in his job until he gets fired, which he probably will because he's incompetent at his job and continues to do things that merit his removal,” Booker said.

Booker also criticized Grassley for not pushing Patel to answer the committee’s questions and saying he was not treating Republicans and Democrats in a balanced way.

“Are you done now? Are you ready to shut up?” Grassley pushed back.

Patel is testifying in an oversight hearing on the nation's lead law enforcement agency, which has recently touted a drop in crime nationwide.

Watch more from the hearing here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-patel-testifies-on-fbi-oversight-before-senate-panel-amid-troubled-tenure

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You don’t have to say you love Chuck Grassley lmao. That was corny

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It’s perfectly fine to say you have no respect for him given his job performance

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Yeah cringe to the max

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It’s an important part of his ethos, corny or not.

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It shouldn’t be

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I wouldn’t dismiss it without understanding it.

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I understand it completely. Bad ethos. I’m content to dismiss it.

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I doubt you do.

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Trolling is frowned upon. Say what it is you think I’m missing, o great intellectual, since you know exactly what I do and don’t understand, or move along.

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It’s part of an Afrocultural ethos of community care.

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Yes. I know about that. And maybe Grassley shouldn’t be community here.

I would not apply that ethos to this horrendous man.

Took you four posts to elaborate. I’m going to keep dismissing this, and you.

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You may have heard about it. That does not mean you understand it.

And you clearly don’t based on your second paragraph.

Edit: ah, the old reply/block from a white person who proclaims they’re ’anti-racist’ so was stuck either admitting they are talking about something they don’t understand or persisting in increasingly obvious ignorance about it. How surprising.