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The Who’s Who on Kash Patel’s Crazy Enemies List

Trump’s pick to run the FBI has already made it known who he plans to persecute if he gets confirmed.

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Dec 03, 2024
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by Timothy Noah

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As someday it may happen that a victim must be found
I’ve got a little list—I’ve got a little list
Of society’s offenders who might well be underground
And who never would be missed—who never would be missed!

—W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, 1885

Like Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner in The Mikado, Kash Patel has a littl…

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