Give Kash Patel a break. If you had to routinely trek over to the White House to kiss the president’s McDonald’s-encrusted a-- —and that’s putting it lightly—you’d probably also spend a lot of time drunk on the clock. As I’m sure everybody’s aware, the bug-eyed FBI director is under renewed scrutiny following the publication of a juicy exposé this week which detailed his (alleged) frequent intoxication, (alleged) paranoia, and (alleged, but come on now…) incompetence at the helm of America’s pre-eminent domestic law-enforcement agency.
Patel has, of course, denied all the charges in the article. He has filed a $250 million lawsuit against the Atlantic, which published the exposé in question, and held a Happy Hour news conference with new acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in which he loudly excoriated the “fake news” while devoting a lot of words to not denying that he’s ever been blotto at Quantico. As is so often the case when Patel opens his mouth, he didn’t do himself any favors.
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