“It’s simple. If they broke the law, you prosecute them, criminally or civilly,” he added.

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Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist floated for the role of attorney general, dismissed the uproar over the former president’s “enemy from within” comments, but said if opponents break the law, they should be prosecuted.

“What the president has stated simply, whether it’s DOJ, FBI, DOD — we’re just going to stop the politicization of law enforcement, intelligence,” Patel told the Washington Examiner on Monday at a Trump campaign event in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

“It’s simple. If they broke the law, you prosecute them, criminally or civilly,” he added. “If they broke the law, use the Constitution, that’s it.”

Patel, a national security official former President Donald Trump once considered for deputy FBI director, denied there is some “revenge list.” But his comments nonetheless suggest openness to revisiting Trump’s complaints that everyone from ex-FBI Director James Comey to New York Attorney General Letitia James deserve jail time.

Trump’s comments on the “enemy from within,” made in repeated interviews this month, were in reference to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

“When you catch the speaker of the House lying about Jan. 6, when you catch an FBI director lying to a federal court for an illegal surveillance program, when you catch the CIA intel communities twisting intelligence about the origins of COVID just because they want to get a political position achieved, those are things that need to be looked at,” Patel said.

“Now, I don’t know if everyone or anyone broke the law, but if you did, why not prosecute?” he added.

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