The FBI director has called the allegations ‘false reporting’ and said he would sue the Atlantic reporter who published them

FBI Director Kash Patel has threatened to sue over bombshell claims reported in a magazine profile that the Trump administration official is deeply paranoid about being fired and often drinks to excess, alarming officials at the law enforcement agency and beyond.

On April 10, according to the magazine, the director flew into a paranoid “freak-out” when faced with a technical issue with a computer system. The report claims Patel thought it was a sign he was being fired and he began calling aides and allies in a panic.

The most explosive allegations in the article are regarding Patel’s alleged excessive drinking.

The official is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication at clubs in Washington and his home city of Las Vegas, according to the piece, violating FBI conduct standards and potentially leaving the nation’s top law enforcement official vulnerable to coercion or exploitation.

Early in his time leading the bureau, meetings had to be rescheduled to later in the day to accommodate his nighttime drinking, the report claims.

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    Ah yes, it’s TOTALLY the alcohol use that’s causing the paranoia, and couldn’t possibly be from any other substance.

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      Deff not the Epstein files or his personal emails getting hacked by Iran

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        I would LOVE if Iran had hacked the Epstein files and will just drop them unredacted. I suppose they’d use it as leverage first, but if they can’t negotiate with Trump, and of course they can’t because he doesn’t even know what he wants, then bring em out bring em out.

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    I literally have never seen a picture of this man where he does not have that deer in the headlights look

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      I wonder if his email being hacked is the only thing we know about.

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    I hope he’s afraid and suffers every day for the rest of his miserable life. That goes double for Miller and Trump and Thiel and Roberts and Vought and Yarvin.

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        Those are more secondary, just garden variety evil/dumb people. Those I listed above are like, the core of the cancer. We need to surgically cut out the cancer.

        Also, in the same analogy, the lifestyle and environmental factors that led to the development of the cancer need to be altered.

        Actually, fuck it, just blast everything with chemo and start over from scratch.

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      You still think there’s a “loop”? It’s a conga line of fafo all the way down, these days, and the FSB’s (et al) playing hot potato with the DJ booth.

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    violating FBI conduct standards and potentially leaving the nation’s top law enforcement official vulnerable to coercion or exploitation.

    Dude. That ship sailed a long time ago

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      suck*

      He’s that one piglet at feeding time that bumbles about, flopping all over the other squirming, pink spawnlings already clamped onto a teat and cooing, while he bawls and blubbers and complains.

      You’re a little piggy, KKKash. Assume the position and STFU. Simple as. Bacon doesn’t get opinions.

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    I hope he is paranoid and uneasy for the rest of his days, always looking over his shoulder, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

    I hope it eats at him and he remains unwell.

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    As a professional drinker you can see in his eyes that he drinks a fuck ton