“My God!” Cory Booker Melts Down After Kash Patel Shuts Him Down
“That rant of false information does not bring this country together. If you want to work on bringing this country together—it’s my time, not yours.”
Democrat Senator Cory Booker had yet another one of his trademark meltdowns on Capitol Hill, this time during testimony from FBI Director Kash Patel. When Patel tried to push back on Booker’s accusations, the New Jersey senator went off the rails.
The exchange quickly turned chaotic.
Grassley (Chair): Do you want to say anything? Yes, sir.
Patel (FBI): That rant of false information does not bring this country together. If you want to work on bringing this country together—it’s my time, not yours.
Booker: My God… my God. If you want to talk about fighting for this country, look at your own social media posts. This is my time. Sir, this is committee time, not yours. You don’t tell me when my time is over. You can’t lecture me.
Booker then devolved into shouting “Point of order!” before accusing Patel of being “rude and disrespectful” to senators.
Booker: Mr. Chairman, I’ve watched him talk over us, and you’ve never once criticized him for it. We couldn’t even get our questions out. He has been rude and disrespectful to Senator after Senator. And when Senators weren’t giving him a chance to answer, I didn’t see you stop them either.
Grassley reminded everyone that Patel would be given time to respond uninterrupted. And when he did, Patel unleashed a blistering defense of his record:
Patel (FBI): Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If the FBI under my seven-month leadership were failing this administration and this country, then why do we have 23,000 violent felons arrested this year alone—double the number from the same period last year? Why have we seized 6,000 weapons? Why have we arrested 1,500 child predators, 300 human traffickers, and identified 4,700 children? Why have we seized 1,600 kilograms of fentanyl—enough to kill a third of the American public, a 25% increase from last year? Alongside that, we’ve seized 88,000 kilograms of cocaine and 7,100 kilograms of meth… Our counterintelligence arrests already exceed the total from last year: up 33% for China, 83% for Russia, and 60% in Iran-related cases.
In other words, Patel came armed with facts, while Booker offered theatrics.
Watch the moment for yourself:
DEMOCRAT SEN. CORY BOOKER MELTS DOWN IN FRONT OF FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL.
Booker wasn't happy to be told by Patel that it was his time, not Booker's.
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/oxqF5pHKHE
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 16, 2025
As Legal Insurrection reported here, Capitol Hill has grown increasingly frustrated when confronted with Patel’s record, from arrests of violent felons to massive drug seizures to counterintelligence gains. When the numbers don’t go their way, Booker and his colleagues default to outrage instead of argument.
And this isn’t Booker’s first time embracing drama over substance. Who could forget his infamous “I am Spartacus” moment during the Kavanaugh hearings? Tuesday’s outburst was just the latest sequel in a long-running performance.
For Booker, it was yet another “My God!” moment: heavy on drama, light on facts.
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What a twat. And this clown things he is going to be President one day.
Ensure is noisy.
He sure….
EDIT FUNCTION PLEASE.
Actually, I was enjoying trying to figure out how Ensure was noisy.
Drop a container of it on your kitchen floor. If it hits right, it makes it very loud splat!
How do you get down votes on asking for an edit button? Enquiring minds want to know!
I thought “Ensure” was hilarious! Maybe the down votes were to leave it as is? 🙂
I’m the new Milhouse I guess.
LOL Reputation I guess!!.
He already fought the Roman Empire, why should the Presidency be out of reach for Crazy Eyes Sparticus?
If you’ll recall, Spartacus got himself crucified. Will history repeat itself?
Waste of wood and nails. Bound and dumped headfirst into a pit toilet.
“rude and disrespectful”
Just returning the favor, Senator Drama Queen
“I am the actor who played Spartacus in community theater!”
More like Homer Simpson
Booker is right up there as a performer. The Democrats need to start awarding Emmy’s. Can you imagine the red carpet for such an event?
No one . . . NO ONE . . . deserves the Emmy more than Chuck Schumer for crying when giving a speech about illegal aliens.
… and he is a master chef of cheeseburger fame.
Ted Cruz was the next to speak after Booker. The first two question that Cruz asked Patel were designed to make Booker look stupid, which they did.
So Booker managed to look like both an a**hole and an idiot all at once.
It was fun to watch…
“ So Booker managed to look like both an a**hole and an idiot all at once.”
Another day that ends in ‘y’ . . .
Are you sure Booker needed help from Cruz to look like an idiot?
Now that we have his stats, are we cool with Patel now?
This wasn’t meant to be a gotcha…it was a legit ask.
Yes.
Bloviartacus, spare us your puffery. Our country cannot survive your content of character.
Cory believes in performative hysterical outrage. The more cameras, the better the performance.
In short, a drama queen.
You would think Booker could read the room, considering no one is in the mood,
Obviously, he doesn’t understand how ticked-off people are right now, especially at the Democrats.
It’s like they’re on self destruct auto pilot…
He’s head drama queen. He really deserves a golf clap for his performances.
Has anybody confirmed Spartacus as part of the “Furry” group in Newark? Asking for a friend.
Why would you ask something like that? Booker is a noisy fool but, what makes you think he’s into that sort of thing?
And what if he were? There’s nothing wrong with furries. Don’t you know any? It’s a harmless hobby, no worse than any other.
A big deal is being made about them right now because of the assassin of Charlie Kirk. Connections with his roommate, etc., etc. I don’t see why they don’t leave roommate the hell alone.
His roommate is a tranny. He is a furry, too? Furrys are no more dangerous than people dressing up as their favorite character at comicons or the Star Trek people at theirs. Some are wackos but so are some running around with Spock ears
Because he is very likely guilty of being an accessory–at least after the fact.
And you base that on what, exactly? That’s a very serious accusation to make against someone, based on no evidence whatsoever. The whateverfriend seems to be a perfectly decent person, normal in every way that matters.
Furries are insane. Crazier than tr@ns.
Do you even know any? Furries or trans?
A harmless hobby taken over by LGBTQ and fetishists, pushing the actual fans out.
There are some pretty cute little furries out there….. We have a couple of young ladies that dress up and ride motorcycles with us…. But i’m leaving the subject of the tail alone!!!
How can one be disrespectful to a group that deserves no respect?
Leftists have never learned that respect is earned, not demanded. The only thing the leftists in Congress have earned is contempt.
Booker was just not used to this new procedure, where the witness has his own time to respond.
Normally that’s not how it works. A senator is given so many minutes, to cover both his question and the witness’s answer, and he completely controls that time. Sometimes senators use their entire time to make a speech, and then the witness has no time to answer any questions that might have been lurking in there somewhere. If the senator doesn’t like the answer he’s getting, he can cut the witness off and lecture him, because it’s his time.
This time Grassley said the senators would each have time to ask their question, and then their time would be over and the witness would have time to answer. Booker was just not used to that and got confused. “What do you mean, it’s his time? He’s not a senator, he doesn’t get time. He’s just there for me to make myself look good. What is going on?”
All committee hearings should have this rule for the witnesses.
Patel was talking about this after the last time he testified – that the hearings are entirely performative. Especially from the D Senators. They give a speech rather than ask a question, and as soon as the witness says something they don’t like they reclaim their time, cutting them off, and spew more lies for the cameras.
Kabuki Theater.
Really nice to see a committee chairman enforce a rule that the witness gets his own allotted time, and is not to be interrupted.
“I reclaim my time” is the desperation tactic of someone trying to stop actual facts from being entered into the record. I support the new rule Grassley put in place. If you don’t want to have a hearing and actually listen to what a person has to say then rent a podium for a news conference or go on The View
When I watch Cory Booker performing, I can’t help but imagine a big red nose in the center of his face, and a ruffled collar around his neck. And a big cone on his head.
Nah. Some people are afraid of clowns. No one’s afraid of Booker.
Good old Willie, described the likes of Booker hundreds of years ago.
“… it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
From “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”
Remember, Macbeth stooped to villainy and violence to achieve his ambitions while Macduff maintained his integrity and quest for justice. Not hard to figure who resembles whom.
Booker + Patty Murray + Joe Biden = 3 of the dumbest people ever to disgrace the Senate.
IQ equivalent of a pile of dog poop + bag of hair + box of rocks
Blue States, and blue congressional districts, would all be far better represented in DC if they chose their representatives and senators by lottery. Or, just round up the nearest homeless people.
Senator Mazie Hirono definitely needs to be added to the list.
I was trying to remember what it is that I was reminded of by that picture of Cory Booker at the top of this article. Then, I remembered what it was.
On one of the episodes of the television series, M*A*S*H, one or another of the gang had taken a painting. Charles Wilson Winchester was a model for one of the pictures. The end result was that exact facial expression, but on the face of David Ogden Stiers.
I remember that one! “Don’t change the color of your face! I’m out of umber!”
Col Potter was painting.
The character’s name was Charles Emerson Winchester.
1) Booker stated that this would be Patel’s last appearance before this Committee,…was he threatening the FBI director’s life, or does he know of a plot to rid Kash from the FBI?
2) Durbin castigated Kash over the Jan 6 pipe bomber. Great point, why hasn’t this guy, who left a trail of bread crumbs, metaphorically, hasn’t been found?
1. I think he was saying that this hearing would expose Patel’s performance as so bad that Trump would fire him. Maybe in the Spartauniverse, but not in this one.
2. I assume he didn’t leave any actual usable evidence, because he was well connected. But last I heard they still hadn’t identified the mysterious people who erected that fake “gallows” early in the morning, and then put the crossbeam up just before the protest. They’re on video, so surely comparing their faces to a database of FBI employees should be enough to identify them. Now that Patel has access to that database.
There is considerable commentary in the various democrat echo chambers ( on democrat websites) discussing how far out of depth Patel is in his position, completely unqualified etc.
Similar discussions on the democrat frequented websites for all of Trumps cabinet.
According to the comments at those echo chamber websites, all cabinet members are unqualified unless they have been members of the deep state swamp for decades.
follow up on my comments,
I have two federal prosecutors and one fbi agent ( and one college age fbi intern as clients )
The comment I have heard many times from those three, is that the field offices of the prosecutors and field offices of the FBI are very much non partisan and most of the personnel have no idea of the political leanings of any of their co-agents / co attorneys.
They have also stated that the DC office of the FBI and the DOJ is a cesspool of politics.
He’s running for President as the shouter.
Shakespeare saw Booker coming, “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
Empty headed buffoon.
Of course, this was preceded by Kash Patel and Adam Schiff, which was about equally contentious.
I saw the clip on xwitter where Booker was asking for answers on what Patel said re: the J6 grand jury hearing.
I’m not up on the thread, but Booker wasn’t there-so how did he have the questions? (leaked)….
Patel kicked his butt soundly on that one.
In the original story Sparticus was crucified and it looks like he was crucified again yesterday!