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Her long record as a foreign policy dissident under both Democratic and Republican presidents will give Senate hawks plenty to scrutinize — and, perhaps, to excoriate.

Patel has also excoriated the media, which he has called “the most powerful enemy the United States has ever seen”.

Hence Trump’s cynical strategy to slip him into position through a recess appointment, which would insulate him from a full background investigation and an excoriating examination by Democrats.

Post columnist Dana Milbank excoriated the owner for the decision, which he said “gave the appearance of cowering before a wannabe dictator to protect Bezos’s business interests.”

“I think it’s time we put a felon in the White House. Trump 2024 baby,” he said in an Instagram video during which he excoriated what he sees as California’s soft-on-crime policies.