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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Apr 23, 2026, 02:26 PM Apr 23

Kash Patel: The Drunk in the Poodle Room

Rick Wilson

There’s a moment in every Trump-era career arc, and I mean every one, where the walls close in, the flop sweat starts, and the doomed apparatchik begins thrashing around like a catfish on a hot dock.

For FBI Director Kash Patel, that moment arrived this weekend with a sickening thud.

The Atlantic’s Sarah Fitzpatrick dropped a devastating report on Friday night detailing what more than two dozen sources describe as a pattern of heavy drinking, chronic absenteeism, and behavior so erratic that his own security detail once had to deploy breaching equipment … the kind of gear SWAT teams use to knock down doors … just to wake him up.

Let that sink in. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was so incapacitated, so deep in his cups that the people sworn to protect him had to treat his residence like they were on a meth lab raid just to rouse him from his boozy stupor.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/kash-patel-the-drunk-in-the-poodle

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Kash Patel: The Drunk in the Poodle Room (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 23 OP
J Edgar Boozer is what we should call him now Coldwater Apr 23 #1
"Kash Patel got arrested for public urination after a night of drinking" LetMyPeopleVote Apr 25 #2

LetMyPeopleVote

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2. "Kash Patel got arrested for public urination after a night of drinking"
Sat Apr 25, 2026, 06:52 PM
Apr 25

How did this story not come out during the confirmation




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