It’s possible President Donald Trump should’ve picked a better podcaster to head up the FBI.

The current one, Kash Patel, has spent two days this week embarrassing himself in congressional testimony, childishly hollering at Democratic lawmakers like Sen. Adam Schiff and helping make Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein problem considerably worse.

During a Sept. 17 congressional hearing, Patel was pressed on the administration’s unwillingness to release the Epstein files, something Patel himself demanded when he wasn’t director of the FBI. Rather than give a direct answer, the former podcaster and longtime right-wing conspiracy theorist deflected, dissembled and hurled insults at Democrats on the committee.

Asked by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California, whether he had ever told “the attorney general that Donald Trump’s name is in the Epstein files,” Patel refused to give a yes-or-no answer and eventually started reciting the alphabet, mocking Swalwell and saying he calls “

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