Trump Picks Another Idiot.

In this morning’s Hartford Courant there is an article that caught my attention...

Trump’s pick looks to shake up FBI

GOP senator says Patel must restore faith in agency

Former Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Defense Kash Patel speaks at a rally for Donald Trump Oct. 24 in Las Vegas. Patrick T. Fallon/Getty-AFP
By Kevin Freking and Eric Tucker Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s drive to upend the FBI was welcomed by some Republican senators although it was not clear Sunday how strongly members of the incoming majority party would embrace his move to install ally Kash Patel as the next director of the Justice Department’s top investigative arm.

Patel, a onetime national security prosecutor who is aligned with Trump’s rhetoric about a so-called deep state government, “must prove to Congress he will reform & restore public trust in FBI,” Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, in line to be the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman when Republicans take control in January, said in a post on X.

I don’t know about you but I have faith in the FBI. I don’t have faith that Trump will not use it for revenge. But wait! The FBI director is appointed to a ten year term and Trump appointed him in 2017 so his term is through 2027!

Patel lacks the high-level legal and management experience that FBI directors, including Robert Mueller, James Comey and Christopher Wray, who now holds that job, had before their nominations. It’s a 10-year term, and Trump named Wray in 2017 after firing Comey. So Trump’s announcement late Saturday means Wray must resign or be fired after Trump takes office on Jan. 20.

And if he doesn’t resign? Will Trump force him out? And how will he do it?

“Every president wants people that are loyal to themselves,” Sen. Mike Round, R-S.D., said on ABC’s “This Week.” But he called Wray “a very good man” picked by Trump, and “I don’t have any complaints about the way that he’s done his job.”

STOP right there!  “Every president wants people that are loyal to themselves” the oath of offices reads,

I [name] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God

I do not see anything there about supporting the president. Nor anything to support the party!

A president has “the right to make nominations,” Rounds said, before noting that the job is normally for 10 years, a length meant to insulate the FBI from the political influence of changing administrations.

Other Republicans who appeared on the Sunday news shows at the end of the Thanksgiving holiday and before returning to work this week were in Patel’s corner.

For the Republicans… Trump comes first, then the party, and then the Constitution!