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Patel Says FBI's Comey 'Concealed' Probe Into Hillary Clinton

FBI Director Kash Patel said last week that "the FBI concealed investigations for then-presidential 
candidate Hillary Clinton, " as he pushes for more transparency within the bureau to rebuild trust 
among Americans.

Patel made his remarks alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino in an interview with Fox News' Maria 
Bartiromo, noting further that former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by President Donald 
Trump in May 2017, decided on his own not to pursue any charges against the former secretary of 
state and 2016 Democratic presidential contender.

"(The previous) FBI usurped the constitutional responsibilities held by the Department of Justice 
and the Attorney General, " Patel said, adding, "Comey decided for himself what cases to prosecute 
and what not to."

Patel specifically referenced Clinton's email scandal ahead of the 2016 election-before she helped 
concoct the 'Trump-Russia collusion' hoax to refocus attention away from herself.

"If you don't believe me, look at the video record, " Patel said, adding that Comey "intentionally 
omitted investigation information or distorted prosecution decisions during his tenure as FBI 
Director."

During the height of the campaign season in the summer of 2016, Comey did a press conference to 
announce that, while the FBI had discovered what many felt were prosecutorial crimes involving 
Clinton's efforts to conceal emails from investigators, "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring 
charges.

Then, under pressure and just ten days before the election, he reopened the investigation into the 
email scandal, alleging that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had compromised 
national security by using a personal email server during her time as Secretary of State. Clinton 
later pointed to the timing of this renewed probe as a key factor in her election loss.

Patel also discussed the subsequent investigation into Trump's alleged Russia ties, which turned 
out to be a fabrication.

"New details have been uncovered" regarding that probe, Patel said, adding that "Comey maliciously 
and brutally distorted the procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and lied 
to the American people."

"He concealed relevant documents and hid them in places that cannot be found, " Patel added.

Bongino elaborated on that during a "Fox and Friends" interview on Thursday.

The deputy director said that his office uncovered evidence from Comey's tenure in a room that had 
been "hidden from us, " as the bureau has been forced to reallocate resources amid ongoing internal 
investigations.

"I wouldn't call it hidden, but hidden from us at least and not mentioned to us, and then we found 
stuff in there and a lot of it's from the Comey-era, and we are working our damndest right now to 
declassify, " Bongino told Fox News.

He added: "I totally understand people saying, 'Well, do it now.' The process is not all 
information is ours to declassify; some is other intelligence agencies, it's not-we literally can't 
do it."

"Once that gets done and that gets out there, and you read some of the stuff, we found that ... was 
not processed through the normal procedure, digitizing it, putting it in FBI records. We found it 
in bags hiding under Jim Comey's FBI, and you're going to be stunned, " Bongino said.

Bongino did not disclose specifics about what was found but took the opportunity to criticize 
Comey, who was dismissed during Trump's first term. His remarks came in response to a Fox News 
anchor's question referencing earlier comments from Patel about a social media post made by Comey.

The fired FBI director drew attention earlier this month after posting an image to Instagram 
showing seashells arranged to spell "8647, " accompanied by the caption, "Cool shell formation on 
my beach walk." Some administration officials believe the message was aimed at President Donald 
Trump.

The term "86, " originally from restaurant and hospitality jargon, generally means to remove, 
reject, or eliminate someone or something, according to Merriam-Webster, while '47' refers to 
Trump.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome, " or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven 
effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 
2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's 
every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a 
distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from 
liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would 
suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do 
or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the 
idea of Trump as president was 
a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late 
conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of 
paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."