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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKash Patel's drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government.
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— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T23:11:19.617Z
âPatelâs drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government. They said that he is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxicationâ¦.On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicatedâ¦â
senseandsensibility
(25,160 posts)Pete Aguilar is on calling for his resignation.
bucolic_frolic
(55,413 posts)Concern and empathy are not in the MAGA playbook.
Cha
(319,527 posts)Swilling down the champagne bottle, in the Locker room, at the Olympics?
Exactly what kind of an FBI director did PEDO appoint?
RockRaven
(19,537 posts)Their sycophancy is a bonus, sure. But destroying America is the priority.
Irish_Dem
(81,801 posts)Pam Bondi appears to have a drinking problem.
I wonder how many of the others have a drink or drug problem too.
fujiyamasan
(1,866 posts)The greatest wino of them all.
canetoad
(20,816 posts)A pattern across this admin?
I wouldn't put it past trump to know all the dirty details in the past of these addicts and use them to his advantage.
Gore1FL
(22,962 posts)He needs to resign out of incompetence. The reason he is drinking is that he knows this to be true.
Initech
(108,939 posts)LisaM
(29,662 posts)And that is saying a LOT.
FakeNoose
(41,933 posts)He was living in Las Vegas and didn't want to move to Washington, D.C. He almost gave it a pass, but Chump begged him and sweetened the pot with additional promises. It was during the interim before Chump's inaugural, and the media was doing its will-he-or-won't-he routine. Patel probably had a drinking problem even then.
ToxMarz
(2,980 posts)Where did this occur? His security detail certainly doesn't come and wake him up every morning in his bed at home.
"On multiple occasions in the past year,
members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated.
A request for breaching equipmentnormally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildingswas made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors, according to multiple people familiar with the request.
These are places he passed out partying somewhere. His security detail wouldn't be looking for him if he always home in bed or at work.
I'd like to know where and when and with who this occured. I'm sure there was likely something that would have been requiring his undivided attention at the time and was he out on taxpayers dime (using the private jet) doing this shit
Blumancru
(280 posts)while sober. I hope they get him help and get him dried out.
Kegsbreath concerns me more, he could do more harm.
Loooong ago, there was a congressman from Massachusetts, John McCormack, who I have been told had a terrible drinking problem, and that he would make long drunken speeches on the floor of the House. It was never reported in the press because they covered for people in those days. He served as Speaker. Others say he was a teetotaller. I am not sure what to believe.
Joe McCarthy had a drug addiction.
Wilbur Mills was another one who loved a nip or two. Or three.
flvegan
(66,358 posts)usonian
(25,856 posts)i.e. people with folks in the old country
A mafia boss needs do nothing.
He has "levers"