Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel held a press conference about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting that created a lot more confusion than clarity.
Noted firing-squad lover Blanche said the Justice Department was “still looking” into who fired the shot that allegedly wounded a Secret Service agent.
“I don’t want to overstate because we are still looking at this, that there were five shots that law enforcement fired. We are—we have—all the evidence is being examined very carefully and expeditiously, and we’ll know more soon.”
Patel, perennially over his skis, didn’t sharpen the picture.
Regarding law enforcement partners in the Department of Homeland Security and the Metropolitan Police Department, he said, “All of us on there put us in a unique position, but all of us also acted uniquely.”
“Unique” is one way to describe things, I guess? Maybe Patel is having a hard time seeming competent because, according to him, nobody is sleeping these days.
“Agents sprung into action, got out of bed, and haven’t slept since,” he said. “These prosecutors haven’t slept since, and I promise you they’re not going to be sleeping.”
Considering how tightly controlled the event should have been, it is rather unsettling that officials seem unable to explain what exactly went wrong.
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