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17. Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends 'official business' trip
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 06:29 PM
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Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends ‘official business’ trip

Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends ‘official business’ trip

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

(@born2balive.bsky.social) 2026-02-22T23:17:34.588Z

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-olympics-europe-travel-b2925401.html

FBI Director Kash Patel is once again under fire for his use of official FBI resources for travel as he appeared alongside gold medal-winning members of Team USA hockey on Sunday at the Olympics in Milano Cortina.

The FBI chief has was previously accused of using federal government resources to take “extravagant” trips with his girlfriend, allegedly earning him the derisive nickname “Make-a-Wish Director” behind closed doors.

But on Sunday he posted photos of himself grinning alongside members of the men’s hockey team mere hours after a spokesperson for his agency blasted the mere suggestion that Patel had used government resources for a personal vacation.

He was also captured celebrating in the locker room on team member Dylan Larkin’s Instagram Live.

It’s an awkward look for the director, whose agency is already battling perceptions that he is unqualified for the job and unserious with his management of the agency and use of its resources.......

Last year, Patel was accused of using a government Gulfstream jet for personal use to fly around and see his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins

Just two years earlier, Patel — then a podcaster and right-wing influencer — had complained that FBI Director Chris Wray was benefitting from "private jet travel that he pays for with taxpayer dollars to hop around the country.”

Now it’s Patel facing that same accusation and claiming that he uses the plane less than his predecessors, while defending their usage for personal trips. Among the reported excursions, Patel has used the jet for a golfing trip in Scotland as well as to go hunting in Texas, along with “date nights” with Wilkins.

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Juvenile narcissist just like the rest of them. /nt bucolic_frolic Yesterday #1
Shouldn't he be protecting perimeter @MaraLoco? Captain Zero Yesterday #2
Because every damn member of this administration is corrupt and knows they can get away with anything. MIButterfly Yesterday #3
You are right on. No chance of any accountability whatsoever. dutch777 Yesterday #6
I agree riversedge Yesterday #7
Right. He is there partying with the hockey team because he can. chicoescuela Yesterday #12
....."the FBI Assistant Director of Public Affairs claimed it was false when MSNow Journalists reported that Patel was g riversedge Yesterday #4
Top secret FBI business. Sneederbunk Yesterday #5
The grift of a lifetime. Unlimited access to taxpayer funds. Irish_Dem Yesterday #8
DEI nt msongs Yesterday #9
We are governed by clowns. nt City Lights Yesterday #10
Because Trump is too chicken to travel abroad, and also he's rotting internally muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #11
He's going to Beijing in five weeks. NT mahatmakanejeeves 23 hrs ago #16
Because he knew there would be cameras there. rsdsharp 23 hrs ago #13
You could always try FOIAing his itinerary, but you won't get it. mahatmakanejeeves 23 hrs ago #14
Abuse of public funds and absolute waste. Melon 23 hrs ago #15
Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends 'official business' trip LetMyPeopleVote 23 hrs ago #17
Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance · 3h Kash is really enjoying himself on the taxpayers' nickel riversedge 22 hrs ago #18
Should be looking for Nancy Guthrie obamanut2012 22 hrs ago #19
Because he can. electric_blue68 22 hrs ago #20
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