Kash Patel has been hounded in recent days by questions about his capacity to run the F.B.I. amid an exodus of top agents, allegations he oversaw political firings ordered by the White House and his face-plant social media post during the hunt for the killer of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Yet on Tuesday, Mr. Patel appeared to find his happy place: the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Patel, who has embraced President Trump’s attack-the-attacker style with bellowing brio, had no intention of being lured into traps set by Democrats, or conceding major error, or sometimes even furnishing answers to their informational queries.
He was there to brawl, perhaps to convince Mr. Trump he still had the attributes that endeared him to the president’s inner circle in the first place — that unique hybrid of public defiance and personal compliance demanded of those placed in positions of power.
“I’m not going anywhere!” Mr. Patel declared near the start of the periodic F.B.I. oversight hearing before the committee, presaging more than four hours of attack and counterattack in a half-full marble-lined committee room.
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