The bombshell report by The New York Post alleged that sources within the FBI had called Patel “in over his head” and his deputy, Dan Bongino, “something of a clown.”

“Patel apparently did not have his own FBI raid jacket with him and refused to step from the plane without wearing one,” the report, citing a highly respected agent, read.

FBI agents who were working on Kirk’s case “had to stop and ask around to find an FBI raid jacket — a medium-sized one — that would fit,” and eventually Patel was given a jacket belonging to a female agent.

However, according to the report, the FBI director complained that “two areas on the upper sleeves did not have Velcro patches attached” and refused to leave the plane until those areas were patched, prompting agents to remove their own to loan to him.

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    Patel denied the claim about his jacket, telling Ingraham that “it’s 100% false” and that, at the time, one of his agents handed him a jacket in Utah and said, “Hey, boss, you should probably wear this. We’re going to the command center.”

    “I said I’d be honored to wear that, and then another one handed me the SWAT team badge of the unit that was protecting the area where Charlie was assassinated,” Patel said. “I wore that with pride.”

    Things that totally happened for $1000. Km sure many people are saying it

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    If he was wearing women’s clothing around a school isn’t that what republicans are mad about?

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        Any info on that? I think there’s plenty of real shit out there that we don’t need to make things up to criticize them over, so I’d rather not spread this without any kind of corroboration. She seems like a regular conservative ghoul who sucks at art but wants to be famous for acting and singing, and failing that she’ll try to be a hot podcaster, and failing that she’ll be a trad wife to a bonafide party member.

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      Isn’t there another lady whose husband is 32 years older than her? I mean, it’s up to them. I just thought it was worth noting.

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    However, according to the report, the FBI director complained that “two areas on the upper sleeves did not have Velcro patches attached” and refused to leave the plane until those areas were patched, prompting agents to remove their own to loan to him.

    So to Patel, the most important part of the job is the FBI cosplay.

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    I’m guessing that “hits back” translates to being a bigger problem to all under his command AND a lot of idiotic words that he can’t then explain.

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    It’s moments like this where we can see how much copoganda really affected some people’s perspective on the world. I am willing to bet there is no small part of this person‘s reality that they don’t think is straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, and they are the forces of good and justice.

    I guess being realistic with where we are now, straight out of an Amazon TV Tom Clancy series.

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      Kash Patel starring in:

      TOM CLANCY’S Clearly Part of a Pantsuit

      TOM CLANCY’S Hunt for Rad Hat MAGA

      TOM CLANCY’S Fake Elector Games

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      More like a take from … The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

      … but not as funny :(

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    Why not share the original article? Especially when both sites are shit, at least favor the one that did the actual work