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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), near the end of his questioning after arguing over time with Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA): “This is ridiculous. What a mockery you are.”Kash Patel:“You are the biggest mockery in the United States Senate and you’re sitting next to Schiff.”Grassley then intervened:“Are you done now? Are you ready to shut up?”Booker:“I am done, sir.” Booker had been criticizing Patel harshly, calling him an “incompetent lackey,” comparing him to “an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends,” and saying he was “an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn’t qualify even to be an FBI agent.” He also described the hearing as “a mockery and a sham” and accused Patel of being a “rogue agent intimidating the press.” Patel pushed back (including noting violent-crime arrests by the FBI in New Jersey), and the back-and-forth escalated with Grassley repeatedly trying to end Booker’s time. #top #CongressHearing #fbi #politicians