Geraldo Rivera Admits FBI Got ‘Too Political,’ Says Bureau ‘Needs A Cleansing’

Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera admitted Wednesday night that the FBI got “too political” and is in need of “a cleansing.”

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kash Patel, who has a history of criticizing the agency over its probes into Trump, to be FBI director Nov. 30, to replace FBI Director Christopher Wray, who announced Wednesday he would step down. Rivera said that he didn’t know Patel, and accused him of being part of the “lunatic wing” of Trump supporters, but admitted that the FBI had crossed the line into being “too political” under James Comey.

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“I don’t know a lot about Kash Patel. I’ve never met him, as far as I know. All I know is that he seems to me, from what I read and what I see and hear, is that he’s part of the, if not the chairman, of the lunatic wing, the Steve Bannon, Alex Jones wing of the MAGA movement,” Rivera said on “CNN NewsNight.” “You know, throw Matt Gaetz in there, if you will. But Kash Patel, if you’re looking for an objective professional, you know, resurrector, a savior of the FBI, you better not hold your breath waiting for Kash Patel to deliver. I think the one thing that Scott said that I think is very important is that he mentioned how the FBI got too political. That is true. That wasn’t Trump. That was James Comey.”

The FBI came under fire in recent years over the agency’s contacts