FBI Director Kash Patel appears on Fox News Sunday to discuss ongoing FBI issues with Maria Bartiromo.
Beginning with the issue of missing scientists, Kash Patel notes the FBI is “working with partners in various jurisdictions” to review each case and identify if something more nefarious is afoot. The questioning then shifts to an explosive accusation by The Atlantic about his drinking, partying and indulgences within his position. Patel notes he is going to sue the Atlantic for defamation.
Maria Bartiromo also asks if Kash Patel has seen any evidence of the 2020 election fraud as outlined by President Trump for several years. Patel notes he cannot talk about ongoing investigations but hints that more information is likely to come out within the next few weeks. WATCH:
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From my personal perspective, Kash Patel does like the indulgences that come with the office. However, I think the accusations against him are likely spurred by disgruntled FBI agents and DOJ officials with an axe to grind.
That said, it still doesn’t appear that Director Patel has his arms around the agency he leads, and it is not uncommon to find people within the Trump administration who are frustrated with ongoing dubious activity carried out by remnant FBI officials who are not being brought to heel.
Over the years, we’ve allowed hundreds of thousands, if not more, of Chinese so-called students to study and conduct research at our universities. In doing so, we’ve helped educate and train individuals who later return home and work against us. Yet now, these talking heads appear in the media pointing fingers at China, overlooking the role we’ve played — and still play — in sharing knowledge and expertise for decades with our biggest geopolitical foe. How stupid is that?
Speaking of Kash, he comes across as another ego-inflated influencer turned admin official, an intellectual lightweight who seems overly focused on his personal image and affluence.
Why do we even accept students from CCP China?
Can’t we educate our own, even Canadian, French, Mexican, or Argentinian?
$$$$
It is our own money, too.
Very sad that Trump expanded the Chinese student visa program.
Well then we would have great politicians like Boston mayor Democrat Michelle “Harvard Ahole Factory” Wu obviously, duh!
Bec the higher learning system loves the money. CCP students pay full tuition
Prostitution is not limited to exchanging sex for money.
A far more honorable business transaction than selling your country and countrymen’s soul.
Most higher education in this country has been hijacked, a cesspool of communist treason. Needs to be treated accordingly.
I am afraid you are 100% correct!
Don’t mean to correct your spelling but….it’s Learing system. (sarc).
Money. Corruption. There are no other reasons. We love money. The Big Edu loves money.
Wish I could disagree with you. I can’t. It’s all true. You nailed it. 🔨
Worse, the “birth tourism” babies born during the Clinton and GW Bush administrations are now old enough to move to the USA (a country they never lived in) and get hired into all sorts of sensitive “US Citizen only” national security and law enforcement jobs.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was there for a reason. Then there was an Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 sponsored by Ted Kennedy.
What that law did, in plain terms:
Exactly what I was thinking! How to ban a frenemy? Two parent birthright citizenship…allegiance is where you were raised! With exception for military members families!
Right!
Where you were raised” is overrated. It’s a myth just like “trust a veteran” or “trust a pious person.” Look at Democrats: the majority of them are Americans, born and raised here.
Sun Tzu
No, no, no, his name is “Santa Zoo, the Chinese Prince Machabelli.”
I don’t know what it is about the guy, but just watching him, even WITHOUT Bongino, makes me want to grab an early nightcap.
Patel is out of his depth.
Was hoping he would have been replaced by now.
Who would you like to see running the FBI? And who could also get confirmed by Senate?
Just curious.
Sad isn’t it? Can’t even expect a republican majority to give President Trump the ones needed to help run the government.
You don’t need the Director to run the FBI. Maybe to make appearances on Fox and other media, but there is a chain of command (or talent) there. Like the military, there is always someone ready to step-up. Someone in that organization, already in a senior leadership position (and a patriot, if not MAGA to boot), can run that bureau. President Trump just needs to find him (or her). The Senate is a chamber of snakes. They will never, as presently constituted, confirm someone that President Trump wants (or needs) to lead. Work around them–legally.
The top ranks of career FBI who would be “ready to step up” were all hired and promoted by Wray, Comey or Muller. No thanks.
One hired as director “talking head” to be confirmed and neutered, second in command, no confirmation needed, does the hard work.
How about he simply fire the top three tiers of the FBI, for starters. They are all corrupt. That would be a great start.
See below. And a previous video revealed POTUS wasn’t happy with him.
“it still doesn’t appear that Director Patel has his arms around the agency he leads”… says it all at this point. Thousands should have been fired on day 1, especially those hired by Mueller, Comey and Wray. You can not lead an organization effectively when there is so much foundational rot.
He is in way over his head.
When asked directly by Bartiromo Kash Patel said he is filing a laswuit against the Atlantic on Monday. He also said the indictment against Comey is working through the judicial process.
Not sure Patel’s defamation suit is ready for a Monday drop….
Blondie is in private practice and has lots of free time now. Maybe she can file it?
Patel is true to his word:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/04/fbi-director-kash-patel-files-defamation-lawsuit-against-the-atlantic/
Harmeet Dhillon brought her department to heel within four weeks. Major personnel purge, and mission change.
Patel and Bongino were spooked. Did they really find a secret room with ‘burn bags’?; or did a Whistleblower step forward, and this was the cover story?
THEY BOTH LOOK TERRIFIED.
Body Language Ghost – Patel and Bongino
Dhillon oversees 750 staffers. Patel oversees 38,000 FBI employees. Draw your own conclusions.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/2-million-fbi-records-found-in-a-hidden-room-in-burn-bags/
Old information, but an update is provided.
He’s a waste of oxygen.
Deer in the headlights is too kind a description.
It doesn’t help that his eyes don’t track together either, perhaps a childhood medical issue…
Looks like some Looney Tune character.
Or related to a vaccine. Optic nerve damage from the Clot shots.
As long as he isnt playing dressup like Bryon Noem.
Why can’t public officials just do the job they were hired for.
At least J Edgar Hoover kept his gay life private.
A Little man in a Big job.
A mistake POTUS must correct.
Ty Sundance for posting the entire interview. I am not a fan of FNC for several years so I generally miss their more important interviews, because most of what they do is garbage. 💁🏻♀️
This is slightly off topic, but can anyone tell me why the IC swamp left incriminating evidence in vaults, burn bags or prohibited access files? Why would they want to keep any of it? I understand the point that they never thought Trump would win. But what reason would there be to keep it? I’m sure they have “ retention” policies but why would they follow procedure when they are committing crimes?
Why do serial rapists or murderers keep trophies? The vermin never expected Trump to survive politically or physically to bring them into the open.
Yes but why? So they could document their felonies in the future?Just doesn’t make sense.
Maybe there are still some good guys in the organization. Maybe they misplaced the evidence they were instructed to destroy. Or forgot to do it. Or were so busy they just had not gotten ‘round to it. Maybe.
Arrogance-they think they control the world.
We can understand their mistake. Most people would have folded. Bravo Trump!
Arsonists have been known to return to the scene to watch the fire department. Swallwell had a colleague (Senator?) record his exploits. Neither of these actions make sense.
Arrogance.
Why did whoever killed JFK permit their minions to leave the autopsy photographs that show JFK’s forehead and eyes completely intact to remain part of the autopsy protocols when the X-rays show the right quadrant of the forehead to have been blown out by an exiting bullet which had to have destroyed the eye? Why put a cartridge casing into evidence, in order to create a third shot to cover what had to be a missing shot that wounded bystander James Tague near the overpass, when the third casing had ballistic markings that did not match the earlier two casings that entered the stream of evidence on Friday, the day of the shooting?
One possibility–When nothing is done about it, people are demoralized, particularly the people who follow such cases closely.
To me, Kash always looks like the kid who was given the answers to all the tests, but doesn’t understand anything he is supposed to have learned. He likes attention. He’s vague with his responses. He doesn’t seem to have authority over his own agency. He’s had plenty of time to investigate and clean house of bad apples in middle and upper levels. I just don’t think he has the gravitas and the personality traits to be an effective leader, regardless of what Bongino says.
They Scared him ..
I have severe “ongoing investigation” fatigue.
I don’t listen to anything he says anymore. He is an incompetent doofus…..even looks like one.
Patel has been horrendous disappointment for many of us!!! His biggest ugly act has been the Assassination of Charlie Kirk. This entire investigation has been a hoax and pack of lies. Candace Owens , Baron Coleman, Ian Carrol have ripped FBI /Patel story on Kirk murder to pieces. This alone destroys any credibility of this man for me and anyone with logical coherent mind.
I am profoundly worried as to why Trump is going along with this ugly pack of lies about the murder of his supposed close friend and supporter. Trump is far too smart to believe the story FBI and Kash is telling us here.
And now Marjorie Taylor Greene is on the conspiracy bandwagon that the Butler, PA shooting was faked.
I’m not convinced but some of the questions she raises are curious.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/marjorie-taylor-greene-amplifies-calls-transparency-butler-trump-assassination-attempt
To those on the left, victims of a mass shooting with one of those terrible “weapons of war” can be lying in a hospital bed in their street clothes, one including a baseball cap, with no visible vital signs monitor, no central line, etc. chatting at length to a credulous bedside CNN reporter about being shot 2 times, 4 times, 6 times, and finally an incredible 12 times (I nicknamed that one “Swiss Cheese”), while exhibiting no apparent discomfort from shattered femurs, broken tail bones, and entry wounds that have the kidneys in their track. We are supposed to buy that, and if we don’t, it is WOKE CANCELLATION TIME. However, it is OK to call ONE shooting, Trump’s, as a fake shooting.
“… it still doesn’t appear that Director Patel has his arms around the agency he leads.”
Lee Zeldin shrunk EPA staffing by double digit percentage. This could be a good first step for Director Patel. Maybe also remove some of the Senior Executive Service. This could motivate remaining staff to follow instructions.
Kash Patel is not leading this agency.
What has this corrupt agency accomplished under his so-called leadership?
The capture of 8 of the 10 Most Wanted in 15 months. During Biden’s four years they captured 4 of the Most Wanted.
I know he is hard to listen to but he did run through a lot.
Considering that President Trump does not drink any alcohol whatsoever, I would assume that he does not have a lot of patience for cabinet members who do so to excess.
I believe Pete Hegseth gave up drinking when he was nominated, as he had a few questionable episodes in his past while under the influence… Maybe Kash should have done the same?
Either the FBI is about to break a huge case and The Atlantic is desperate to smear the Director OR they have a solid story and Patel will be out by the end of the week!
Anyone with that much responsibility should not touch alcohol.
Right!!
Riiiggghhhttt…
His Mossad girlfriend — supposedly a country singer who cannot sing, has no rhythm, and is half his age… Kabuki theatre
Bukkake theatre.
Trump sent a boy to do a man’s job. Period.
“Stay tuned for next week. You might see a thing or two.”
Where have I heard that before?
From John Solomon
Free Beer Tomorrow!
I sure do hope that Director Patel recognizes so many of us completely exhausted from claims of future accountability and prosecution, and tragically zero results. With bold statements like these, Director Patel risks being labeled a “Shifty Shifftist” if he makes bold claims and states there is “solid proof” with zero results.
Breaking News!! ad nauseum:
● the FBI is “working
● to review each case
● if something more nefarious is afoot.
● he cannot talk
● information is likely to come out
Thank you, Sundance. Kash was a terrible choice.
From out of the blue, too.
This scenario of missing/dead scientists, many of them involved with anti-gravity and UFO phenomena, is similar to the predictive programming of the Netflix series “3 Body Problem” which aired in 2024.
Ye Wenjie, a Chinese astrophysicist, runs into trouble with the authorities after witnessing her father’s death during a struggle session in the Cultural Revolution. Due to her scientific background, she is sent to a secret military base racing against other countries to make first contact with aliens during the Cold War. While there, she makes a choice that impacts humanity’s future. In present-day London, a series of mysterious suicides and science-averse phenomena lead a government investigator and a group of friends called the “Oxford Five” into a mystery of extraterrestrial origin.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13016388/?ref_=ttfc_ov_i
King Solomon has spoken:
“ The latest evidence to boomerang on the 2019 Democrat House impeachment managers came last week when Just the News successfully persuaded Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to release long-secret memos showing the intelligence community had raised red flags about the credibility and political motives of the CIA analyst who prompted the scandal with a tale that Trump had wrongly pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate the Biden family.”
I am concerned that King Solomon might dislocate his shoulder from patting himself on the back.
FBI Director Kash Patel Files $250 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against The Atlantic
https://legalinsurrection.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Kash-Patel-Sues-The-Atlantic.pdf
“the indulgences” give ammunition to the forces that Patel is supposed to be bringing to heel. If the accusations are “facts”, then this is not good.