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Swede

(39,709 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:03 PM 15 hrs ago

Kash Patel's drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government.

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“Patel’s drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government. They said that he is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication….On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated…”

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T23:11:19.617Z
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Cha

(319,527 posts)
3. Who can forget Cash Drunkenly
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:25 PM
14 hrs ago

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)
4. The Dotard chose drunks to head up the FBI and DOD because he is a traitor who wants those institutions to be weakened.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:35 PM
14 hrs ago

Their sycophancy is a bonus, sure. But destroying America is the priority.

Irish_Dem

(81,801 posts)
5. Robert Kennedy Jr is a long time drug addict.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:39 PM
14 hrs ago

Pam Bondi appears to have a drinking problem.

I wonder how many of the others have a drink or drug problem too.

canetoad

(20,816 posts)
13. Are you beginning to see
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 12:41 AM
11 hrs ago

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)
6. Given the position he put himself into, I'm surprised it begins and ends with alcohol.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 10:00 PM
14 hrs ago

He needs to resign out of incompetence. The reason he is drinking is that he knows this to be true.

FakeNoose

(41,933 posts)
9. Am I remembering correctly that he didn't really want the job of FBI Director?
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:26 PM
12 hrs ago

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)
10. What would be interesting to know, and no doubt the information is available
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:35 PM
12 hrs ago

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 equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was 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)
11. I would hate to think he would do and say the stuff he is doing and saying
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:54 PM
12 hrs ago

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.

usonian

(25,856 posts)
15. A mafia boss hires only compromised lieutenants.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 12:53 AM
11 hrs ago

i.e. people with folks in the old country
A mafia boss needs do nothing.

He has "levers"

NBachers

(19,490 posts)
16. I'd accuse him of drinking top-shelf booze on our dime, but he probably only drinks rotgut.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 01:38 AM
10 hrs ago
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