Trump's FBI Director ROCKED As Drinking Scandal Escalates After Official Gifts Exposed
May 7, 2026
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as posted by the channelDonald Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel gets rocked by damning new report tied to his drinking scandal as people from his inner circle and FBI colleagues spill on his nonstop gifting of personalized whiskey bottles. Sharon Reed and Viviana Vigil break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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The Atlantic Follows Up Bombshell Kash Patel Exposé With New Exclusive on His Fave Boozy Swag
"If FBI Director Kash Patel thought filing a lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick would chill their interest in reporting about him, he was sorely mistaken, as a new exclusive dropped Wednesday afternoon detailing Patel’s reported penchant for gifting personalized bottles of bourbon.
Last month, Fitzpatrick published an article that reported how Patel “has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences,” citing two dozen anonymous sources who said he had been publicly drunk “to the point of obvious intoxication” on multiple occasions, the FBI has had to reschedule meetings “as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights,” and that once he was so intoxicated his security detail “had difficulty waking” him and had make a “request for ‘breaching equipment’—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings…because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.”
Patel vociferously denied the claims in the report and filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic and Fitzpatrick. The typo-riddled complaint faces substantial challenges to make it to trial, especially the discovery requests Patel would have to answer. Earlier in the day Wednesday, MS NOW reported that the FBI had launched a criminal investigation into the alleged leaks to Fitzpatrick; an FBI spokesperson denied the report."
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