Mark Fisher

This is an aspect of this conspiracy theory that Kash Patel somehow never gets around to talking about.

He sees the FBI as kind of a rogue operation.

And so it fits in with his overall theory of this deep state that is the real governing factor in the United States.

And this deep state doing its own thing, seeding these sources into the January 6th attack groups without perhaps the knowledge of Trump and the Trump administration.

And, you know, the FBI did have some contacts who were from time to time inside some of the militia groups.

So were they there for the purpose of encouraging those groups to take this more violent approach on January 6th?

No evidence has been presented along those lines.

And yet it's been years now that he's been pushing this theory and saying that once he got inside, he would reveal the evidence.

Well, nothing's been revealed.

I believe that the president said it first, but Kash Patel quickly adopted this idea that everything that was at Mar-a-Lago was there legally simply because the president had taken it there.

This is completely contrary to the law.

In 1978, Congress passed the Presidential Records Act, and that prohibits former presidents from taking any official records.

whether they were classified or not, from taking them with them when they left office.

Well, Trump brought a lot of those things down to Mar-a-Lago.

And Patel has said several times when he worked in the White House in the first Trump administration that he watched the president declassify documents so that he could take them with him to Florida.

So since Patel had said this in various public settings, he was then summoned to testify by prosecutors to testify before a grand jury about, OK, what did you see?

Which documents were they?

And what did the president do when he was declassifying them?

Well, he gets to the grand jury and all of a sudden Patel is taking the Fifth Amendment saying that he's not going to answer any questions because he has this right against self-incrimination.

So the prosecutor said, well, OK, we'll get you immunity.