Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter behind the bombshell exposé about Kash Patel’s alleged conduct, said she stands by her story after he threatened to sue

White House officials are “openly discussing” who will be the next FBI director amid a bombshell report about current leader Kash Patel’s alleged excessive drinking and other concerning conduct.

Patel has threatened to sue The Atlantic after journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick’s report alleged the FBI director is deeply paranoid about being fired and often drinks to excess, alarming officials at the agency and beyond. Fitzpatrick responded that she stands “by every word of this reporting” and told MS NOW: “We have excellent attorneys.”

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    Ooh, the liquor cabinet has gone and made the orange shitgibbon look bad… Now you’re gonna have to suck harder or get the boot.

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    We saw him pounding beers when he was partying with hockey players in Milan. I mean, maybe that’s kind of normal behavior for a late teenager or someone in their early 20s. Kash Patel is 46 and heading up the FBI.

    Sorry, I think most people expect someone in that job to be a little more of an adult?

    What the fuck was he even doing there in the first place?

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      Have you noticed it’s the ones that should know better? The ones most representative of the kinds of people these shit bags ALWAYS shit on? The women and minorities. I don’t understand how someone could be either of those two categories and still think they’re safe with these people.

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    You could see this coming in their roll out of the info on him.

    • First they talk about non-provable shit that he’s a drinker, or fired the pilot for the coast guard because of a blanket, etc.
    • We are here: Then they start about maybe, possibly, firing them. It’s in the air.
    • Person is fired and left taking the blame for everything.
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    Side note, I watched Predator Badlands last night and every time there was a face shot of the predator it made me think of Kash.

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    I hope he does, and then when people start taking depositions, then people will be testifying under oath about how much he actually drinks.

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      I don’t really care how much he drinks, I’m more interested in what he got for covering up the Epstein files and what other corrupt crimes he has committed.

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    I would like Patel to stay where he is, until Iran has simultaneously cut off all the heads of the Dogey hydra. Best to keep the defenses of this failson “America” weakened until the monsters end up in cardboard caskets. The Orange One, the Kegged One, the Unhealthy One, The Over 50,000 One, The Saruman One, The White African One, The Uncle Thomas One, The Couched One, all of the other Ones.

    We have so fucking many examples of awful. 😒

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      The Orange One, the Kegged One, the Unhealthy One, The Over 50,000 One, The Saruman One, The White African One, The Uncle Thomas One, The Couched One, all of the other Ones

      Half of these sound like Diablo bosses LMAO.

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        I am hoping to someday play videogames where confronting such evils is part of the gameplay loop. “President Evil”, where you explore a white house and eventually descend into the basement of a destroyed wing, after solving puzzles that utterly befuddled the evil things sealed below.

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    Did anyone else see that shit during the winter Olympics where he was partying with team USA? This doesn’t surprise me at all

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    Patel has vowed to sue The Atlantic and Fitzpatrick, suggesting in a social media post that the article met the high legal bar to qualify as defamation.

    I doubt that. Patel is a public figure. The US has a high bar for defamation to start with, and it gets harder for public figures.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan

    New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled the freedom of speech protections in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limit the ability of public officials to sue for defamation.[1][2] The decision held that if a plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit is a public official or candidate for public office, then not only must they prove the normal elements of defamation—publication of a false defamatory statement to a third party—they must also prove that the statement was made with “actual malice”, meaning the defendant either knew the statement was false or recklessly disregarded whether it might be false.[2] New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is frequently ranked as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the modern era.

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      And truth is an absolute defence. I imagine the Atlantic had lots of meetings with lawyers about publishing a story about Patel being an unqualified, paranoid, incompetent drunk.