FBI Director Kash Patel reacted strongly after The Atlantic published a story alleging that he’s a total drunkard and “freaked out” because he mistakenly believed President Donald J. Trump had fired him.
In the Friday hit piece that will fuel the next wave of attacks on the nation’s top cop, the outlet claims that “bouts of excessive drinking” have adversely impacted Patel’s ability to carry out his job and that his “conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences” have “alarmed” DOJ and FBI officials.
Patel responded to the besmirching of his character in the only way he can: He’s suing the bastards.
Writing in a Friday post to X, “see you and your entire entourage of false reporting in court… But do keep at it with the fake news, actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up,” Patel also shared an email exchange between Fitzpatrick and FBI spox Ben Williamson calling her reporting “completely false at nearly 100% clip.”
Patel’s attorney, Jesse R. Binnall, shared a letter sent to The Atlantic and its “journalist” BEFORE the piece was published, putting them on notice that the claims in the report “were categorically false and defamatory.”
But they published it anyway.
“See you in court,” Binnall wrote.
