{"id":69881,"date":"2026-05-06T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69881"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:58:47","slug":"trumps-fbi-boss-kash-patel-goes-after-the-reporter-who-exposed-him-as-an-incompetent-lush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69881","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s FBI Boss, Kash Patel, Goes After the Reporter Who Exposed Him as an Incompetent Lush"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vengeance driven retribution campaign of Donald Trump and company has been a prominent feature of his second occupation of the White House. It has placed numerous Democrats, wayward Republicans, and other critics in legal jeopardy just for daring to take honest positions in opposition to Trump and his MAGA cult movement.<\/p>\n

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Among the victims of the Trump regime’s revenge tour have been members of the media that they have attacked both civilly – by filing meritless lawsuits against news organizations – and criminally – by directing his “Justice”<\/em> Department to prosecute journalists on blatantly phony charges. Most recently Trump’s FBI director, Kash Patel, followed his master’s lead by suing The Atlantic over a story that revealed him to be an incompetent administrator with a serious drinking problem.<\/p>\n

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The Atlantic’s story<\/a><\/strong> profiled Patel’s unseemly behavior, alleging that “He is erratic, suspicious of others, and prone to jumping to conclusions before he has necessary evidence.”<\/em> And that “The problems with his conduct…include both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Shortly after the article was published, Patel announced on Fox News that he was filing a $250 million defamation lawsuit. But as it turns out, that’s not the only overt act of retaliation that he’s taking. As reported by MS NOW<\/a><\/strong>, Patel’s FBI is going after the reporter…<\/p>\n

“FBI agents are probing the reporter who wrote a detailed story of Patel\u2019s alleged heavy drinking and erratic behavior.” […]<\/p>\n

“The journalist, Sarah Fitzpatrick, cited two dozen anonymous sources in a detailed story reporting that Patel\u2019s alcohol consumption and erratic behavior had caused deep concern among FBI officials. Patel was known to drink to the point of intoxication, she reported, adding that on occasion his security detail had trouble waking him in the morning.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MS NOW’s reporting noted that such an investigation of Fitzpatrick “could be used by FBI agents to obtain her phone records, run her name and information through FBI databases and examine her social media contacts.”<\/em> And The Atlantic\u2019s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, responded by saying that, \u201cIf true, this would be an outrageous, illegal, and dangerous attack on the free press and the First Amendment.”<\/em><\/p>\n

An FBI spokesperson has denied that any investigation of Fitzpatrick was underway. But given the credibility of statements issued by Trump, or anyone in is administration, it would be fair to take such denials with a pound or two of salt. On the other hand, the reporting by The Atlantic and Fitzpatrick has been impeccable and, to date, unimpeachable.<\/p>\n

So you can make your own choice as to who to believe. The highly respected journalist with dozens of knowledgeable sources, or the guy who still says that Trump won the 2020 election, and that the Epstein files contain no evidence of any crimes, and that James Comey’s “8647”<\/em> seashells were a threat to kill Trump, and that Trump declassified in his mind the documents found at Mar-a-Lago, and that Trump was exonerated of collusion with Russia by the Mueller Report, and any number of other conspiracy theories to which Patel had subscribed?<\/p>\n

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