"There's little worse than watching a nervous actor onstage-especially when the poor guy isn't just skittish but seems genuinely unprepared for the role that he's playing. Incompetence has a way of unnerving its witnesses. An insecure performer robs an audience of its belief in both the character and the entire enterprise. Take, for instance, Friday morning's bizarre and disorienting appearance by Kash Patel, the manifestly unqualified F.B.I. director installed by Donald Trump."
"He was in Utah, alongside that state's governor, Spencer Cox, having been given the grave duty to announce the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the young man who, on Wednesday, allegedly shot and killed the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In its way, this was a high occasion of state, an opportunity for the government to make a display of its brisk, sober ability to act, and to quell the unrest that this horrific and very public murder had aroused."
Kash Patel, the manifestly unqualified F.B.I. director installed by Donald Trump, made a bizarre and disorienting appearance in Utah to announce the arrest of Tyler Robinson, accused of killing Charlie Kirk. The occasion presented an opportunity to demonstrate competent, sober law-enforcement action and to reassure a distressed public. Patel prematurely posted on X that the shooter was "in custody," then later tweeted that the subject had been released after interrogation, prompting speculation about his whereabouts while tweeting. Patel visited the crime scene, a move former F.B.I. personnel warned could complicate the local investigation, and he reportedly convened and berated agents online.
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