By The Federalist (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-06 12:34:54 | Updated at 2025-01-07 22:12:21
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NBC’s Kristen Welker has a long history embracing the Democrats’ conspiracies related to Trump-Russia collusion. Would she write off the sources who fed the public bogus narratives embarrassing her own network? Of course not. The moderator of NBC’s flagship weekend political program would go on to platform the Democrats’ conspiracist-in-chief related to Kremlin interference on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral certification.
On Sunday, Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who was formally censured by the lower chamber two years ago for weaponizing the Intelligence Committee to run the Russia hoax through Trump’s first term, joined Welker on “Meet the Press.” After Schiff condemned “the federal justice system” for having “really let down the country” over Trump’s triumph above the serial lawfare campaigns, Schiff said the incoming president’s new pick as FBI director, Kash Patel, was “unqualified” based on allegations of plans to pursue “political vendettas.”
“I think the terrorist attack in New Orleans,” Schiff said, “underscores again the importance of having someone directing the FBI that has experience, that has judgement, that has character, that will prioritize defending the country against the violence we saw in New Orleans or the violence we saw on January 6th.”
“Not someone whose top priority is political vendettas, who believes in deep-state conspiracy thinking, not someone who is as unqualified as Kash Patel,” California’s freshman senator added.
Schiff’s concerns, however, represent a classic case of projection. Executing political vendettas has been Schiff’s primary strategy to rise in the Democrat Party from an obscure congressman from the nation’s largest state to a U.S. senator.
As ranking member and then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee under Trump’s previous White House tenure, Schiff fabricated scandal after scandal whether by way of Russian collusion or Ukrainian corruption to impeach the Republican president for the apparent crime of winning the 2016 election. Once Trump was out of office, Schiff reflexively peddled more conspiracies related to the Capitol riot, claiming on CNN in 2022 he had some sort of secret “evidence” against the former president which never came. The California Democrat wouldn’t share the details of the latest pee tapes on air, however, because he allegedly couldn’t “get ahead” of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s partisan Select Committee on Jan. 6. The same committee concealed evidence that as a senior official in the Department of Defense, Patel led the charge to pre-emptively deploy 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol but was rebuffed by Pelosi.
Patel wrote about the ordeal last March for The Federalist, “For over three years, I have done countless media interviews, answered numerous subpoenas, and testified before congressional committees and grand juries about the 45th president’s actions regarding the National Guard in the lead-up to Jan. 6, 2021.”
“Unfortunately for the propaganda press, the truth never changed, nor did any of my testimony,” Patel wrote. “Indeed, Donald Trump authorized at least 10,000 National Guard troops days before Jan. 6 in the Oval Office with the secretary of defense, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, chief of staff to President Trump, me, and others present. Pursuant to that authorization, senior DOD officials were dispatched to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office and the Capitol Police. Each of our respective testimonials, under oath, confirms this key fact.”
Pelosi’s panel, however, kept key witness transcripts confirming Patel’s story concealed from public view, allowing Schiff to gaslight viewers on NBC four years after the riot that Patel would endorse the violence from Jan. 6, 2021.
Welker never pushed back on Schiff’s claims about Patel in her Sunday interview. Instead of pressing Schiff with additional questions related to his outlandish claims against Patel, the NBC moderator thanked him for his time, and ended the interview.
“We really appreciate it,” she said.
Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of "Fat and Unhappy: How 'Body Positivity' Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself)." He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan's email newsletter here. Buy "Fat and Unhappy" here.
