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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.”

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours 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.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours 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?

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 156 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 87 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"dial it back about 80% there, bud"

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

"I am the liquor"

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"The Defense rests, Your Honor."

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

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago

How about the Epstein files?

[–] pelley@lemmy.world 108 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] dhork@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago

Hegseth will be fine, he has the ~~white~~right credentials....

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 26 points 2 days ago

I think you mean Kegsbreath

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 12 points 2 days ago

I woukd really rather these guys stay drunk.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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

You'll be happy to learn that there is one : Kakistocracy.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

That's not a kind of democracy.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

This person PRs

[–] notso@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] lemmock@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FE80@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Looks like a human-muppet hybrid.

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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. 😒

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] halferect@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan

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.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days 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/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/

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