White House officials ‘openly discuss’ firing Kash Patel as FBI chief threatens to sue over report about ‘excessive drinking’

2 months ago by MicroWave to c/news

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

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.”

slothrop 158 points 2 months ago

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otter 87 points 2 months ago

When a hockey player looks at you like this... You might have/be a problem.

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Zephorah 66 points 2 months ago

This is what Josh Johnson was talking about, wow. Apparently Patel wormed his way in with these guys because he wanted to hang out. How do you say no to the FBI directer?

Pretty sure the look is because they don’t want this dork hanging out with them and has nothing to do with the beer.

Great expenditure of the taxes I just paid these assholea.

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favoredponcho 24 points 2 months ago
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RaoulDuke85 6 points 2 months ago

The answer is always no, no matter who the FBI director is.

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youcantreadthis -13 points 2 months ago
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otter 5 points 2 months ago

28 days old and you're already compromising the legitimacy of that account seeming human? Oof. Bold move, botfarm.

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SaveTheTuaHawk 5 points 2 months ago

"dial it back about 80% there, bud"

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wonderingwanderer 30 points 2 months ago

This looks like how Mack from Always Sunny would behave at a college frat party that he wasn't invited to.

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SaveTheTuaHawk 2 points 2 months ago

"I am the liquor"

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BarneyPiccolo 11 points 2 months ago

"The Defense rests, Your Honor."

"Yeah, I figured. Well, this is going to be easy..."

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MonkeMischief 3 points 2 months ago

This sounds like a My Cousin Vinny reference. 🤔

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eestileib 2 points 2 months ago

This picture makes me even more angry that Canada gagged so hard.

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pelley 110 points 2 months ago

Now do Hegseth.

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dhork 48 points 2 months ago

Hegseth will be fine, he has the whiteright credentials....

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SeductiveTortoise 26 points 2 months ago

I think you mean Kegsbreath

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youcantreadthis 12 points 2 months ago

I woukd really rather these guys stay drunk.

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pelespirit 64 points 2 months ago

You could see this coming in their roll out of the info on him.

  • First they talk about non-provable shit that he's a drinker, or fired the pilot for the coast guard because of a blanket, etc.
  • We are here: Then they start about maybe, possibly, firing them. It's in the air.
  • Person is fired and left taking the blame for everything.
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pdxfed 29 points 2 months ago

This person PRs

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queerlilhayseed 57 points 2 months ago

It's fun when my government decides which administration officials to shitcan via press leak vibe check.

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_stranger_ 9 points 2 months ago

Have you noticed it's the ones that should know better? The ones most representative of the kinds of people these shit bags ALWAYS shit on? The women and minorities. I don't understand how someone could be either of those two categories and still think they're safe with these people.

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Corkyskog 7 points 2 months ago

What kind of democracy is this? I feel like we need to come up with a new term, like fascism but stupider.

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Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 11 points 2 months ago path: 0 23292933 23294179 23297626, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 1
phutatorius 2 points 2 months ago

That's not a kind of democracy.

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chiliedogg 5 points 2 months ago

Conservatism

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queerlilhayseed 4 points 2 months ago

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PhoenixDog 1 point 2 months ago

Your country voted for this. They chose this.

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AbidanYre 38 points 2 months ago

Side note, I watched Predator Badlands last night and every time there was a face shot of the predator it made me think of Kash.

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otter 7 points 2 months ago

Poor Dek. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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desmosthenes 2 points 2 months ago

🤣

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Imgonnatrythis 1 point 2 months ago
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Zahille7 19 points 2 months ago

Did anyone else see that shit during the winter Olympics where he was partying with team USA? This doesn't surprise me at all

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Zephorah 32 points 2 months ago

Was he partying with them? Or was he simply in their presence and partying?

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meco03211 22 points 2 months ago

He was partying with them. They were not partying with him.

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eestileib 14 points 2 months ago

They went to the White House, other medal winners chose not to

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Imgonnatrythis 10 points 2 months ago

Instantly wished Canada team won as soon as they agreed to do this. Respect to the Women's team who had better things to do than photo op with a dimwitted fascist.

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halferect 8 points 2 months ago

The team USA men's hockey team definitely partied with him and then ate McDonald's with trump, they are disgusting lil pricks

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Zahille7 7 points 2 months ago

I think the answer is "yes"

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phutatorius 4 points 2 months ago

"Partying" is almost always a euphemism for cocaine use.

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SLVRDRGN 1 point 2 months ago

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notso 18 points 2 months ago

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lemmock 24 points 2 months ago

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FE80 2 points 2 months ago

Looks like a human-muppet hybrid.

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Spezi 11 points 2 months ago

FTFY

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sem 17 points 2 months ago

How about the Epstein files?

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SabinStargem 14 points 2 months ago

I would like Patel to stay where he is, until Iran has simultaneously cut off all the heads of the Dogey hydra. Best to keep the defenses of this failson "America" weakened until the monsters end up in cardboard caskets. The Orange One, the Kegged One, the Unhealthy One, The Over 50,000 One, The Saruman One, The White African One, The Uncle Thomas One, The Couched One, all of the other Ones.

We have so fucking many examples of awful. 😒

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MonkeMischief 17 points 2 months ago

The Orange One, the Kegged One, the Unhealthy One, The Over 50,000 One, The Saruman One, The White African One, The Uncle Thomas One, The Couched One, all of the other Ones

Half of these sound like Diablo bosses LMAO.

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SabinStargem 5 points 2 months ago

I am hoping to someday play videogames where confronting such evils is part of the gameplay loop. "President Evil", where you explore a white house and eventually descend into the basement of a destroyed wing, after solving puzzles that utterly befuddled the evil things sealed below.

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fodor 12 points 2 months ago

I hope he does, and then when people start taking depositions, then people will be testifying under oath about how much he actually drinks.

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FlyingCircus 8 points 2 months ago

I don’t really care how much he drinks, I’m more interested in what he got for covering up the Epstein files and what other corrupt crimes he has committed.

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corsicanguppy 9 points 2 months ago

Is it just booze, or can we start calling him Kush Patel yet?

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Corkyskog 7 points 2 months ago

I was just reading an article about the first administration medication dispensal records and it was wild.

Here is a different article.

https://www.rollingstone.com/...

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tacoplease 8 points 2 months ago

Fire his unqualified ass.

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cecilkorik 3 points 2 months ago

Fire them all until they run out of worse people to replace them with.

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phutatorius 1 point 2 months ago

It's the US, that'll take forever.

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tal 6 points 2 months ago

Patel has vowed to sue The Atlantic and Fitzpatrick, suggesting in a social media post that the article met the high legal bar to qualify as defamation.

I doubt that. Patel is a public figure. The US has a high bar for defamation to start with, and it gets harder for public figures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled the freedom of speech protections in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limit the ability of public officials to sue for defamation.[1][2] The decision held that if a plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit is a public official or candidate for public office, then not only must they prove the normal elements of defamation—publication of a false defamatory statement to a third party—they must also prove that the statement was made with "actual malice", meaning the defendant either knew the statement was false or recklessly disregarded whether it might be false.[2] New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is frequently ranked as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the modern era.

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arc99 3 points 2 months ago

And truth is an absolute defence. I imagine the Atlantic had lots of meetings with lawyers about publishing a story about Patel being an unqualified, paranoid, incompetent drunk.

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Alexstarfire 4 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised this isn't a more prevalent issue in this administration. That's the only way to do their job if they aren't full on MAGA.

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LeonineAlpha 7 points 2 months ago

It (and you better believe it includes copious cocaine, pills and every kind of non-con/dub-con behaviour) IS a constant issue, with ALL conservatives everywhere, because it is the only way ANY of them can "do their job" or even listen to each other.

But they bought the media so...

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SnarkoPolo 4 points 2 months ago

The Trump Regime's lawsuits against journalists have this far been bigly faceplants, YUGE on the order of the Melonballia movie.

That said, when he cements his power later this year, I fear for any media figure who dared to oppose him.

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lechekaflan 3 points 2 months ago

Fucking banchode makes Hoover look mild in comparison.

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8000gnat 3 points 2 months ago

spiderkash

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CharlesDarwin 2 points 2 months ago

We saw him pounding beers when he was partying with hockey players in Milan. I mean, maybe that's kind of normal behavior for a late teenager or someone in their early 20s. Kash Patel is 46 and heading up the FBI.

Sorry, I think most people expect someone in that job to be a little more of an adult?

What the fuck was he even doing there in the first place?

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switcheroo 1 point 2 months ago

Ooh, the liquor cabinet has gone and made the orange shitgibbon look bad... Now you're gonna have to suck harder or get the boot.

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Gammelfisch 1 point 2 months ago

Shit can both drunks.

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phutatorius 2 points 2 months ago

And the allegedly teetotal demented narcissist piece of shit who hired them.

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