Kash Patel has filed a lawsuit over a profile piece. But, by suing, the FBI director only brings more light to allegations about his behaviors and risks future embarrassment
FBI Director Kash Patel’s $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic did little to dampen the disturbing allegations in what he calls its “hit piece” against him — and instead sparked a firestorm of broadsides from his critics.
Patel’s federal court filing - which included a plethora of typos - summarized the report’s nearly 2,200 words of somewhat dense prose into a concise list of 17 easy-to-read sentences about the damning information provided by more than two dozen anonymous sources, some of them current and former FBI officials or staffers at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The allegations cited include that Patel “is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned’s in Washington, D.C., while in the presence of White House and other administration staff,” that he’s “also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends” and that “members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated” multiple times over the past year.
This guy seems cooked, did they tell him to sue so this would happen, directly under the bus? This idiot seems like one of the guys who would go out and spend a bunch of money after a big bank robbery.
Daddy Trump gets to sue anyone he wants and gets paid off, Pattel is expecting to be able to do the same
It’s a bold strategy, cotton let’s see how it works out for him.
This is a guy who would live stream the bank robbery
“20 subs and I jump up on the counter and fire wildly into the air”
😆 Yes.
His dumb filing even confirms half of the claim that The Atlantic made in its article, which he would deny in a presser like 2 hour later.