Meatball Lovin' Kash Patel says he can't release info on dead attempted Trump assassin until his trial is concluded

[Miles Archer]

Kash Patel caused yet another strange moment in his hearing in the House on Wednesday, when he appeared to suggest that he couldn't release any information about President Donald Trump's attempted assassin Thomas Crooks until his trial was concluded — even though Crooks was killed at the scene by the Secret Service.

Crooks, 20, opened fire at Trump last year while he was holding a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, taking the shot from the rooftop of a nearby warehouse. Trump was grazed in the ear but was otherwise unharmed, while one other person at the rally, local volunteer fire chief Corey Comparatore, was killed.

"Can you commit to [release information on the case]?" Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) asked Patel during the hearing, to which he responded, "As soon as the trial's over."

This confused response, posted to X by CBS News justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane, drew a swift reaction from commenters on social media.

https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2674003999/

[newdeal2]

1. Another case that has conveniently vanished

Crooks was a ghost if I didn’t know any better.

[yardwork]

2. Yet Patel is releasing all kinds of info about the guy charged with Kirk's killing?!

That makes no sense.

[Incanus]

3. They need more time to fabricate it.

Kash wasn't around to create texts and undestroy destroyed notes, I'm sure there's a backlog now, rewriting history takes time.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. That incident was under-investigated imho

Once the ear bandage went on, the press went home. Was there reporting on the victims, the town, the event? Not that I saw. Just a photo op and the press moved on.

[Renew Deal]

5. There was info about the guy that died

It was about him, the shooting, his family, and his wife not speaking to Biden or something like that.

[AZJonnie]

6. Cocaine's a hell of a drug