I have trouble giving Patel any slack.
I think both he and Blondi have been doing a bit of institutional gatekeeping rather than performing the mission that Trump sent them on which is to BREAK things in institutional bureaucracies in which a lot of things need to be broken.
I’d be a lot less harsh IF IF IF there was information forthcoming on RAY EPPS.
From my view, if this was a hoax as Trump and most on this forum believe, then Epps is the “Rosetta Stone” at ground zero that can explain how the hoax was set in motion.
I’m not paying much attention to Patel until the name Ray Epps comes out of his mouth.