As the news broke that some of Trump's allies are trying to run away from Kash Patel's remarks about jailing journalists, Fox is also trying to downplay Trump's "dictator" remarks as just a "joke." As Raw Story reported today, apparently Patel saying the quiet part out loud that he would like to put journalists in prison if Trump puts him in charge of the CIA isn't sitting too well with some of Trump's advisers:
But according to The Washington Post, Trump's camp is starting to worry about all the backlash comments like this from both Trump's allies and the former president himself are generating.
One Trump adviser said of the Patel comments, “Idiotic comments like this have nothing to do with our campaign.”
