Very few people know that Kash Patel was named in the affidavit to search Mar-a-Lago for the missing files. Though we don’t know what Patel said, we do know that Patel knew enough and relayed it to the FBI, such that the FBI acted on it in obtaining the search warrant. Two days ago, Trump sat through a deposition with E. Jean Carroll. Patel testified in front of the Florida grand jury last week. According to Lawrence O’Donnell, Trump should be more terrified by the latter. He has no idea what Patel told the grand jury. As framed by O’Donnell:

“Kash Patel was quoted in the FBI affidavit which was used to obtain the search warrant of Trump’s residence, saying in May that Donald Trump had declassified documents that he kept at his residence in Florida. What did he say about that when he was asked about it in the grand jury in Washington last week? Kash Patel might have taken the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer any questions under oath to that grand jury or Kash Patel may have decided it was time to save himself and stop lying for Donald Trump.”

Kash is very loyal but he’s one of the smarter ones in Trump’s orbit. The question as to whether loyalty will win out over self-preservation is a good one, but it’s likely that – by this point – self-preservation will win out.

Donald Trump and his lawyers have no idea what Kash Patel told that grand jury. Nothing prevents Kash Patel from telling them what he told the grand jury, but Donald Trump’s problem is he is a pathological liar who has attracted into his employ other pathetic, pathological liars, like Kash Patel. So, when one of his pathological liars is now telling him what he said to a grand jury, how can Donald Trump believe that? How can Donald Trump’s lawyers rely on that?”

Yes, so Donald Trump gets an opportunity to feel what it’s like working around Donald Trump. He won’t be able to trust Patel nor count upon what he’s saying behind closed doors.

‘Such as the agonizing legal pressure that is building on Donald Trump every day with every new revelation about a new Trump player testifying to a grand jury,”

That is the life of someone under almost a half-dozen investigations. Though, Kash Patel knows a little more than most. Again, he is quoted in the Mar-a-Lago affidavit. He knows something important.