Watch: Patel Flips Script on Dem with Biden Reference After Being Pressed on J6 Pardons – EVOL

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pushed back in his confirmation hearing after he was grilled on the president’s pardoning of Jan. 6 rioters.

“So do you think that America is safer because the 1,600 people have been given an opportunity to come out of serving their sentences and live in our communities again?” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked Patel during Thursday’s hearing, pressing him on Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted police officers having their sentences commuted earlier this month.

Patel responded with a reference to Biden’s decision in the final hours of his presidency to free Leonard Peltier, a far-left activist convicted in the 1975 murders of two FBI special agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, who were gunned down in a shootout in South Dakota.

“Senator, I have not looked at all 1,600 individual cases,” Patel said.

“I have always advocated for imprisoning those that cause harm to our law enforcement and civilian communities. I also believe America is not safer because President Biden’s commutation of a man who murdered two FBI agents. Agent Coler and Williams’ family deserve better than to have the man that point-blank range fired a

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