FBI Director Kash Patel lost his temper during a grilling on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and blasted Democratic Senator Adam Schiff as a liar, a fraud, a coward, a buffoon, and more when questioned about the Epstein case.
The California senator had been questioning the FBI director over the Justice Department’s handling of Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell when Patel went off on him.
It was one in a series of fiery clashes the FBI director had with Democrats while appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for the first time since his confirmation, and it came as he was being pressed by one of the president’s greatest critics on Capitol Hill.
Schiff pressed Patel over Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s two-day visit to meet with Maxwell amid fallout over the adminis