He said that’s to “investigate fully wherever there is a constitutional factual basis to do so.”
“Protecting the rights of the Constitution is of the utmost importance to me, and has been every single time I’ve taken that oath of office,” he said in his opening statement.
His comments are unlikely to ease Democrats’ concerns that he might use the agency to go after Trump’s political adversaries. Patel has repeatedly stated a desire to rid the government of “conspirators” and has suggested that a Trump victory could result in investigations of lawmakers who have committed “federal felonies” and “covered up the truth from the American people.”
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