FBI Director Kash Patel lashed out at Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Tuesday, calling him a “buffoon” and a “fraud” during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing.
The argument broke out after Schiff pressed Patel with questions suggesting he dismissed FBI agents or removed them from cases at the White House’s direction for political reasons.
Schiff then tried to pull information from Patel relating to the prison transfer of convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, associate of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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