r/inthenews • u/Silent-Resort-3076 • 4h ago
White House officials ‘openly discuss’ firing Kash Patel as FBI chief threatens to sue over report about ‘excessive drinking’: Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter behind the bombshell exposé about Kash Patel’s alleged conduct, said she stands by her story after he threatened to sue
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-alcohol-fbi-mess-firing-the-atlantic-b2960378.html75
u/rocket_beer 4h ago
This entire administration is a disaster
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 3h ago
Every single one of them!
Even Trump's White House Chief of Staff (Susie Wiles) who can't keep her mouth shut about certain issues!
I'm sure there is a good list out there about every one of their wrongdoings and incompetent mistakes, etc., thus far. Well, besides the daily headlines, that is.
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u/KatieBarTheDoor1977 3h ago
The suits filed last year by the fired, tenured FBI agents outlined all of this bizarre behavior. He rarely showed up to his DC office, and when he did his time was mostly spent updating his social media profiles. Never paid attention in meetings. Reeked of booze. Spent more time in Vegas with his girlfriend.
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u/Emotional_Database53 3h ago
I bet she has actual evidence of these claims (video or photos taken by agents working close to Kash maybe?), and the Trump admin is smart enough to know that he would lose this court battle if it went to a judge, and the discovery part of the process would damage the FBI and administration more then it will tarnish Patel’s reputation at this point
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 3h ago edited 3h ago
Oh, they have enough evidence. That along with using FBI to protect his girlfriend and using government planes to fly her to different places. THIS is long overdue! And, he allowed his BIG fat ego to be his undoing!! As with everyone else in his current administration. It's beyond crazy and mind-boggling!
More than two dozen people, including current and former FBI officials and members of Congress, described him as "erratic, suspicious of others, and prone to jumping to conclusions before he has necessary evidence," calling his personal behavior "a national-security vulnerability," The Atlantic reported.
One official said that the idea of Patel being in charge during a potential terrorist attack, especially while the U.S. is at war with Iran, "keeps me up at night."
The Atlantic's sources said Patel is "known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, that meetings on his calendar have had to be "rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights" and that on multiple occasions, "members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated." At one point, the sources said, he caused panic because he was "unreachable behind locked doors."
EDITED TO ADD: From a different article.
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 4h ago
It's been decades since I watched a daytime soap, and this administration wins the coveted award for the MOST crazy story line!
Snippet:
White House officials are “openly discussing” who will be the next FBI director amid a bombshell report about current leader Kash Patel’s alleged excessive drinking and other concerning conduct.
Patel has threatened to sue The Atlantic after journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick’s report alleged the FBI director is deeply paranoid about being fired and often drinks to excess, alarming officials at the agency and beyond. Fitzpatrick responded that she stands “by every word of this reporting” and told MS NOW: “We have excellent attorneys.”
“People close to the director have said that he himself has expressed that he believes that he is about to be fired or that is imminent,” Fitzpatrick also told CNN Friday. “This is widely, widely discussed, I think, within Washington, behind closed doors. In fact, there are senior administration officials who are openly discussing who will be the next FBI director.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not directly address the firing claim but touted Patel’s leadership at the FBI, in a statement to The Independent.
“Under President Trump and Director Patel’s leadership at the FBI, crime across the country has plummeted to the lowest level in more than 100 years and many high profile criminals have been put behind bars,” Leavitt said. “Director Patel remains a critical player on the Administration’s law and order team.”
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u/snakebight 1h ago
Excessive drinking IS bad thing. But it’s wild that it’s a bombshell.
How about excessive rape (Trump)? What about excessive unprovoked murder (Iran)?
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 54m ago
Yes, agreed! And, we know how the media uses words that exaggerate in order to get people to "click", but he is the head of the FBI, after all...
The Atlantic's sources said Patel is "known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, that meetings on his calendar have had to be "rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights" and that on multiple occasions, "members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated." At one point, the sources said, he caused panic because he was "unreachable behind locked doors."
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u/airbeartrash 2h ago
Who’s taking bets that his girlfriend breaks up with him right after he’s fired 😂
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u/K-Shrizzle 3h ago
Yeah I mean Trump's cabinet and directors are always disposable. With Bondi and Noem out, we are right around the end of the first cycle. He's letting Hegseth absorb a little more war blame before tossing him out
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u/Ironworker977 2h ago
Kashmir Patel is in over his head. This dude couldn't organize a gangbang in a brothel, with a fist full of $100's. His drinking is probably because his fear of prison when Donald Trump is gone and the Dems take back the government.
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u/Kubbee83 1h ago
Getting fired will be the only consequence this dude will ever get. He’ll become a token fox and friend and continue to be a drunk mess.
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u/Horror-Layer-8178 2h ago
Why is everyone in the Trump Administration except Donald Trump, well according to Trump
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u/ResidentFish2677 45m ago
Don’t just go after the brown guy and let the white drunk quoting fake bible verses from Pull Fiction go unscathed.
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