Ciattarelli Wrong to Support for Kash Patel as FBI Director
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Last week, NJGOP gubernatorial primary candidate Jack Ciattarelli published on Instagram his enthusiastic support of President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Kash Patel as Director of the FBI. Jack even went a step further, stating his concurrence with Trump that Patel is “most qualified” to lead the FBI. I defy Ciattarelli to offer one item of Patel’s experience that even remotely evidences his qualification for FBI Director. Even worse, Patel is an absolute unregenerate fascist, as established by four of his actions. The first is his cult-like support of Donald Trump. The veneration of a strongman leader who must not be questioned is the primary aspect of any fascist regime. The second and most highly publicized action signifying Patel fascism is his declared intention to criminally pursue and persecute journalistic critics of Donald Trump. This action does more than define Patel as a fascist autocrat, practicing the doctrine of retribution against the leader’s enemies. It also establishes him as a dire threat to American democracy and First Amendment civil liberties. The third is Patel’s avowed intention to virtually dismantle the FBI. The destruction of democratic institutions like the FBI is a core component of fascism, and Patel makes no secret of his plans for FBI evisceration. Specifically, he proposes to close the FBI headquarters in Washington and “open it up the next day as the museum to the Deep State.” Patel said the FBI should then leave about 50 people from its staff somewhere in Washington to help keep the agency running, and send the thousands of other employees into the field to join the 16,000 employees already there. This scuttling of the FBI is an inherent danger to the future of this venerated American institution. Finally, Patel is an unrepentant denier of the 2020 presidential election. His intention at that time to deny the American people the right to be served by its then elected president Joe Biden established beyond any reasonable doubt Patel’s adherence to authoritarianism, a central feature of fascism. During the last months of his first administration, Donald Trump was considering appointing Patel as FBI deputy director. The then Attorney General William P. Barr objected, saying that this appointment would take place “over my dead body.” Yet an appointment that was inane and grotesque even to Bill Barr is perfectly satisfactory to Jack Ciattarelli. In fact, in totally bizarre fashion, the Republican candidate for Governor has described Patel as an agent of reform. What does this tell you about the kind of people Ciattarelli would select, if elected governor, as members of his cabinet? This exhibits Jack Ciattarelli’s lack of judgment and unfitness for the governorship of New Jersey. It brings me no small amount of sadness to make this observation. In the 2017 Republican gubernatorial primary, Jack Ciattarelli ran as a principled anti-Trump candidate and won my admiration. Unfortunately, Ciattarelli proved to be a man whose ambitions vitiated his principles. A column I authored during the 2021 campaign described Ciattarelli’s obsequious efforts to appease and appeal to MAGA voters, even going so far as to attend a MAGA Stop-the-Steal rally. His endorsement of Kash Patel proves that there are no limits to Ciattarelli’s Trump sycophancy. Our next governor must be a person of courage and judgment in order to defend New Jersey against Trump’s forthcoming assault against Jersey values and resources. We witnessed over the past decade Jack Ciattarelli’s devolution and transformation from a man who had these leadership qualities into a pathetic political poltroon. His cheerleading for Kash Patel is further conclusive evidence of his unfitness for the position of the Garden State’s Chief Executive. Alan J. Steinberg of Highland Park served as regional administrator of Region 2 EPA during the administration of former President George W. Bush and as executive director of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission. He graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin Law School. Alan served as a Lieutenant in the US Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He is the host of the Dynamic Political Centrism podcast, published on Substack. |
It is well past time to pull the plug on Steinberg. In virtually every article he writes, he labels someone he disagrees with as a fascist or an antisemite. How infantile. It’s like being in 6th grade, forever.
Americans everywhere are waking up to the fact that the FBI has lost its way and needs massive reform.
Christopher Wray refusing to report how many paid FBI informants were in the crowd on J6?
The FBI using extreme violence to raid the Mar-A-Lago and rifle through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer?
Max, please do us all a favor and retire this guy.
Good informed commentary. Citarelli’s quick drift from “ moderate” to pro-MAGA accelerates. The GOP can do much better. We don’t need a Trump sycophant in NJ. Also the recent right wing attack of the FBI ignores its key role in preventing drug trafficking, counterfeiting, kidnapping, money laudering , etc. Do they really belief local police can be successful on their own against international cartels & domestic organized crime?
No, Norman, it’s time to retire Trumptards like you who hate democracy, the rule of law, the Constitution, and the United States. Maybe you’d be more comfortable in Russia, eh, Comrade?
Mike:
More name calling like your man Steinberg? How fitting.
Since Trump won the popular vote, I guess you are implying that more than half of America is made up of Trumptards?
The Constitution? Wasn’t it the left that trampled upon the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when it instituted broad censorship of social media? The FBI working with Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story immediately before the 2020 election? The Biden campaign coercing 50 former intelligence officials to write a letter falsely asserting that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian Disinformation to impact the outcome of the 2020 election?
And you claim Trump is a threat to our institutions?
Please stop digging.
It is Trump’s unstable disposition and the many people of the ilk of “Fear Noman” that support that pathological LIAR that has created the cult of Trump-worship. Mr. Steinberg is absolutely correct in his assessments. I would also say that Biden must absolutely pardon the January 6th Select Committee which investigated him, because of Trump’s vindictive nature and DEMONSTRATED THREATS against them, even though they did nothing wrong, and were doing their Patriotic Duty.
Another hall of fame classic piece by Alan “Projection” Steinberg. Let’s see who’s drifted here. Steinberg supported Ted Cruz for president 8 years ago. Trump basically co-opted Cruz’s agenda and now they’re fascist ideas? No, it is Steinberg who has moved from the normal to the crazy. His grandparents and other relatives murdered in the holocaust would be pretty upset to know he now identifies with the River to the Sea party, the destroy America party, the destroy Israel party. Maybe he fashions himself as one of the elitists comprising the democrat royalty? Sorry Al, you’re Jewish so you’re out.
Sorry Schnackenberg. You know nothing about the U.S. Constitution and how it applies to the states. Do you know that the 9th Amendment and 2nd Amendment apply to the states? Do you even know what the Supremacy Clause is? Do you know what Article III stands for? Do you know what the Fourth Amendment is? Or, it’s NJ equivalent (Art. I, Section 7)? Even cops being deposed in Federal Civil Rights cases don’t know what it is.
Before spouting your Marxist-Communist rhetoric and projecting it on others, you need to look in the mirror. Every time I look in the dictionary and see New Jersey Democrat-Marxist, there’s a picture of you.
I will be sending a letter to President Trump to ask that Alan J. Steinberg be given the Dr. Josef Goebbels Propaganda Medal. Now, that would be ironic, wouldn’t it????
Steinberg worked under G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Steinberg needs to go on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.
From Steinberg’s Bio:
“Alan J. Steinberg of Highland Park served as regional administrator of Region 2 EPA during the administration of former President George W. Bush.”
As part of his efforts as regional administrator for the EPA, after 9/11/2001, did Steinberg advise Christie Whitman that the air was clean and clear to breathe at Ground Zero?
Did he take any actions to warn workers that the air at Ground Zero was dangerous and unsafe to breathe?
I did not begin my service at EPA until 2005. Christie Whitman left EPA in 2003. I never served concurrently with Christie Whitman at EPA.
Dear PA Cavalier:
Stop with your cowardice and identify yourself. Also, leave your name so that I may institute legal defamation proceedings against you. As a legislative staffer, I crafted New Jersey’s Holocaust Education Act. My identification is with the most pro-Israel wing of the Democratic Party, including Josh Gottheimer, Don Norcross, Frank Pallone, Ben Cardin, Ritchie Torres, and the Democratic Majority for Israel. Since the October 7 attempted genocide of Israel by Hamas, I have written column after column defending Israel’s policies against Genocidal Hamas, such Israeli policies including invading Rafah and attempting to destroy Hamas. The following is the link to my latest column in this regard.
https://open.substack.com/pub/asteinberg/p/the-correct-israel-response-invade?r=50ice&utm_medium=ios
Your defamation of me and the vile attempt by you to scatter dirt against the memory of my relatives who died in the Holocaust merits you a perennial place in Hell.
If the producers of the daytime gabfest “The View” are ever inclined to add a caterwaulering male voice to their panel, may I suggest New Jersey’s own Alan Steinberg. His over the top histrionics are perfectly aligned with current hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sonny Hoston.
Brian Foley:
Every word I utter is the truth. And you can’t handle the truth.
Alan Steinberg is a hammer and everyone he sees is an antisemite who needs to be pounded with his hammer.
He only knows how to play one card, the antisemitism card. Instead of engaging in an intellectual discussion of the issues, he leads with ad hominem attacks. Weak.
Alan Steinberg hasn’t uttered the truth for the past 8 years. All he’s done is issue commentary of projection and gaslighting. Not one iota of his comments were based on any fact, let alone set of facts.
Steinberg whines about PA Cavalier and makes further insane threats to sue for defamation. Go ahead Steinberg, sue for defamation. But you better back up your case with facts, instead of personal ad hominem attacks. Given that President Trump won the Presidential Election, you seemed to start whining and cowering a lot more since then, for fear of being hit with “lawfare”. Remember what I said to you, about what an infamous U.S. Senator once said: You reap what you sow, and you will reap the whirlwind”.
To the counterfeit Thomas Jefferson:
I realize my effectiveness by the hysterical responses by MAGA lunatics like “Thomas Jefferson.” He is a Bodyguard of Lies and Defamation cloaked with a false identity. He obviously is a moral and physical coward with a sick motive and anti-intellectual hatred. Unless and until he reveals his actual ldentity, nobody can give the verbal toxic venom and filth of this modern Julius Streicher any credibility. Every effort is being made by Trump Fascists to silence me. To this army of Trumpist anal orifices, I can only say: Your efforts to physically and emotionally intimidate me are doomed to failure. American democracy will survive Oswald Mosley Trump.
Hey Fear Norman –
Find me one person I ever falsely labeled as an antisemite. You can’t. You lose.
To the sinister Fear Noman: I defy you to find one case where I falsely accused a person of being an antisemite..
To the Counterfeit Thomas Jefferson: I could not be more proud of serving in the administration of George W. Bush. His President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) constitutes the greatest humanitarian program ever undertaken by the United States of America. It saved 30 million lives, although the counterfeit Jefferson is probably upset that so many of them were black. Of course, an unmitigated MAGA schmuck like Thomas Jefferson, too ashamed of himself to reveal his identity , is also too stupid to know the meaning of the word “humanitarian.”
https://www.hiv.gov/federal-response/pepfar-global-aids/pepfar
Sorry Alan, but does The Patriot Act ring a bell. It was the most tyrannical law ever passed in the United States due to the false flag operation of 9-11 and Iraq for faux “weapons of mass destruction”. Your buddy, the warmonger Dick Cheney made how much from this fake war and passing The Patriot Act that gave him millions more from the military-industrial complex???
Your vicious attacks on conservatives, Republicans and Trump/MAGA supporters speaks volumes as to your thought process being deluded. At least I can press your buttons to make you react irrationally. At least I never attacked you for being Jewish, which sometimes I wonder about you when you support and vote for Communism and dictatorships. I have Jewish relatives in my family on my father’s side, and my sister-in-law is Jewish. They don’t like you either.
Counterfeit Coward Thomas Jefferson: You lie your ass off again. Maga and Donald Trump are fascist authoritarians, not conservatives. Ronald Reagan was a true conservative, and he had no more a staunch supporter in New Jersey than Alan Steinberg. And I also was an avid supporter of William F. Buckley, who DESPISED Trump. Why don’t you stop being so cowardly and identify yourself? Then, I would joyously debate you and wipe the floor with you in debate!
Insider NJ, check your Mission Statement in the About Us tab; “InsiderNJ is committed to giving serious political players a fair hearing and an interactive and dynamic forum for ideas, discussion and political intelligence.” Is that what you consider the above comments to be? Bizarro Thomas Jefferson saying: “Steinberg needs to go on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.”?
Hopefully, Ciattarella is not as egotistical as these rants. He merely stated an opinion. The name calling that occurred in this election is off the charts and exactly what , “We The People” can’t stand. Further, it maybe the reason for the crack in the Blue Wall.
I guess we will all have to wait and see if indeed our elected officials live up to the names that have been tossed around. Either we are going to be pleasantly surprised that they are nothing of the sort or in a position to say , “I told you so.”
The pendulum needs to come back to the middle where most Americans are. Swinging from the rafters insulting each other has done little for our country. STOP THE VITRIOL
Richard Grant: Ever hear of heated political narrative or satire. Things were said that were a lot worse during Presidential elections from President Jackson, to Lincoln, to Teddy Roosevelt, etc. A lot of that is protected under the First Amendment. Even bad speech or hate speech is protected under the First Amendment. Sorry, if it offends thee, since it seems you’re the “god of censorship” here.