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.”
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?
How about the Epstein files?
FTFY
Looks like a human-muppet hybrid.
I hope he does, and then when people start taking depositions, then people will be testifying under oath about how much he actually drinks.
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.
Fire his unqualified ass.
Fire them all until they run out of worse people to replace them with.
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.
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.
spiderkash
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. 😒
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.
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.
Is it just booze, or can we start calling him Kush Patel yet?
I was just reading an article about the first administration medication dispensal records and it was wild.
Here is a different article.
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.
Shit can both drunks.
And the allegedly teetotal demented narcissist piece of shit who hired them.
Fucking banchode makes Hoover look mild in comparison.
It’s fun when my government decides which administration officials to shitcan via press leak vibe check.
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.
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.
That’s not a kind of democracy.
DemocracyPlus! is an innovative new model of governance that capitalizes on the natural synergy dynamic between government power and the ruthless efficiency of capital interests. Our flexible subscription model offers everyone a chance to participate at a level that suits their lifestyle and their budget. Our ad-supported* DemocracyBasic tier lets users from all walks of life participate in basic democratic activities, and our paid tiers offer exclusive perks for patriots who are truly invested in their country.
Now make like Paul Revere and Pony Up!™ with DemocracyPlus!
* ad-supported tiers may be subject to certain fees. For more information about applicable fees, better get a lawyer you broke dumb idiot.Conservatism
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.
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…
Did anyone else see that shit during the winter Olympics where he was partying with team USA? This doesn’t surprise me at all
“Partying” is almost always a euphemism for cocaine use.
Was he partying with them? Or was he simply in their presence and partying?
He was partying with them. They were not partying with him.
The team USA men’s hockey team definitely partied with him and then ate McDonald’s with trump, they are disgusting lil pricks
They went to the White House, other medal winners chose not to
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.
Well, I imagine they didn’t want to get physically violated or get nasty public or privats comments from the world’s most famous pedo-rapist mysogynist.
I think the answer is “yes”
