FBI Director Kash Patel told Newsmax on Thursday that the arrest of a suspect in the 2021 pipe bomb case proves what he and others long believed: that the Biden administration allowed critical evidence to sit untouched for years, forcing the incoming Trump team to rebuild the investigation from the ground up.
Appearing on “Greg Kelly Reports,” Patel called the breakthrough “a victory for the team across the interagency,” crediting state and local law enforcement along with a newly energized federal effort.
“This is what interagency work looks like when you’ve got state and local authorities fix on a target of such high public priority,” Patel told Newsmax. “In eight months, we came in and reviewed all of the evidence that had sat alone and on the sidelines for the prior four years of the Biden administration.”
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