Todd Gilbert, the former Republican Speaker of the Virginia House, took a U.S. Attorney job from Trump and quit 37 days later. His only public comment was a "boy, that escalated quickly" meme.
Today, we learned why. He wouldn't manufacture the charges. Genuine courage, and rarer in his party than it should be.
ALT FBI Director Kash Patel stands in a crowd of men in suits, looking off to the side with a flat expression, an FBI badge pinned to the lapel of his blue jacket. Foreground figures are blurred. Overlaid text reads: "How the Drive to Find a Conspiracy Against Trump Rocked the Justice Dept."