Three of Trump’s most controversial nominees have yet to sit in the Senate hot seat: Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmation hearings for all three are set to take place this week.

While Democrats are focused on attacking Kash Patel, whom Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford calls the most “Trumpy” of the three, Republicans, specifically the “neo-conservatives,” are working against Gabbard and Kennedy.

Mike Pence, for example, has waged a smear campaign against RFK Jr. for “pro-life” reasons. Despite his personal views, Kennedy has made it clear that he will “execute the president’s vision on abortion.”

Bedford, however, says Pence’s “stand up for babies” act is just a guise to hide his true intentions.

“Mike Pence [is] trying to sink a Donald Trump nominee who’s outside of the mainstream in some of his views,” he tells Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight.”

As for Gabbard, she must overcome the “neoconservatives and the hawks who are suspicious” of her due to her “independent thinking about what the Blob’s up to,” adds Bedford.

“Those are the two nominees this week who I think are in more trouble. They’re going to have a harder path, and that’s not because of the Democrats, even though, of course, Democrats aren’t going to vote for them, but it’s because of the Republicans who might flake off.”

Kash Patel, on the other hand, faces less scrutiny from the GOP but a great deal from Democrats who fear his vision of major FBI reform.

Democrats oppose him because “he’s going to be effective” and because there’s potentially a lot they want “to hide,” says Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

“That’s totally true,” says Bedford.

“The Trump administration is working on uncovering a lot more of the sins of the deep state once they’re actually in there and inside, and I know that Kash Patel’s people have been working closely with former FBI agents who saw this up front and personal in their years of service, who witnessed the politicization, who saw every single case the FBI was working on, whether it was child sex trafficking, whether it was foreign spies, whether it was organized crime, put on the back burner so the FBI could … [put] hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people in prison over January 6,” he explains.

“So the Democrats are going to try and use J6 against him. They’re going to try and ask him questions like, ‘Do you support attacks on law enforcement?’ in an effort to “[tie] him to pardons and commutations for those people who were convicted of attacks on law enforcement,” says Bedford, noting that Patel in his response will need to carefully “toe that line in a way that makes Republicans still feel comfortable.”

To hear more of his predictions for Senate confirmation hearings, watch the episode above.

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Chicago-area Democrat Tiffany Henyard — already mired in scandal — reportedly joined an all-out brawl at a public meeting Tuesday night, losing her shoe and getting thrown to the floor in the process.

During the public comment portion of the Thornton Township Board of Trustees meeting, activist Jedidiah Brown ended his time behind the microphone by telling Henyard — the township supervisor — “You gone, bitch.“

‘It was one thing when the guys were fighting, but when she jumped in it, I was just taken aback. I was floored.’

Video shows Brown walking forward, apparently back toward his seat, before he turns around. At that point, WBBM-TV reported the Brown started getting into it with Henyard’s allies — including her boyfriend, Kamal Woods — and the fisticuffs commenced.

Witnesses told WBBM that Henyard — who was seated with trustees at the front of the room — ran toward the melee in the back of the room. WBBM said it was unclear if Henyard was trying to break up the fight or get involved in it, but “she did lose a shoe and was thrown to the floor.”

Resident Gerald Williams told WLS-TV that Henyard “jumped in” to the fight and “hit her head on the table, so I don’t know. She might be injured.” Williams added to the station that such behavior “should never happen. I just couldn’t believe that it came to that.”

“It was one thing when the guys were fighting, but when she jumped in it, I was just taken aback. I was floored,” resident Alicia Nichole also told WLS.

South Holland police told WLS that officers responded to the Thornton Township building “upon reports of a fight between two individuals. However, those individuals had dispersed from the scene prior to police arrival, so no arrests were made.”

WBBM said the fight ended the board meeting, which never formally adjourned, and that police removed everyone from the building. Thornton Township is a little less than a half-hour south of Chicago.

WLS added that there have been no reports of any serious injuries as a result of the fight; the station said it also spoke to Henyard’s attorney, who said he might have a statement later.

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The meeting came the day after former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivered a scathing report to Dolton’s board of trustees, alleging a pattern of mismanagement and deception by Henyard, who is also Dolton’s mayor. Henyard’s attorney has not commented on the report.

Lightfoot said Henyard and members of her administration have routinely kept Dolton trustees in the dark about large expenditures including for travel, meals at local restaurants, and purchases at various retailers.

And Lightfoot says her months-long investigation uncovered similar practices in Thornton Township.

Adding to the drama, WBBM reported that Henyard had hired her boyfriend, Woods, to run the township youth program — and many on the board and in the community have questioned the work that Woods and another Henyard ally, William Moore, ever did in Thornton Township.

At Tuesday’s meeting, the board’s newest trustee, Stephanie Wiedeman, made a motion to put Woods and Moore on administrative leave, and the board did so immediately, WBBM said.

But Henyard tried to prevent the trustees from voting on the matter, WBBM said, adding that Henyard contended that placing Woods on leave is a personal attack.

“No, and this is political retaliation, so again, thank you for the lawsuit,” Henyard said after the vote, according to WBBM. “Because you all just picked certain individuals. You all didn’t come in here and do no research, so I appreciate it.”

You can view video reports here and here about the brawl.

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