Apr 22, 2026
Trump FBI Director FREAKS OUT When Reporter Won't Back Down On His Own Lawsuit
Donald Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel snaps in full panic when reporters won't back down on claims from Patel's own lawsuit surrounding fears over being fired by Trump, excessive drinking and disappearances. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Can you say definitively that you have not been
intoxicated or absent during your tenure as
FBI director? I can say unequivocally that
I never listen to the fake news mafia. And
as when they get louder, it just means I'm doing
my job. This FBI director has been on the
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job twice as many days as every director before
me. What that means is I've taken half as many
days off as those before me. What that means
is I've taken a third less vacation than those
before me. So there's a few issues with that
denial. First of all, you were asked a very
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specific thing, have you been drunk at the job?
And you said, yeah, I'll say this, I don't
like you guys. That's not what I was asking
at all. Are you drunk right now, Lush Patel?
And then he said, he referred to himself in
the modified third person there. Boy, this
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guy really is becoming Donald Trump. And also,
I've taken half the days off that anyone else
has. Okay, first of all, I don't believe that
you literally disappear. And second of all,
I've heard that you're taking a lot of half
days off the first half of the day when you're
hungover because you're a drunk. That's my concern.
And so he could have just said no. It was
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an easy question as easy as Kristi Noem being
asked if she was having an affair. And you'll
note that she didn't answer it. He decided to
go on the offense with his thing of any negative
news is just the fake news mafia. And if I'm
being attacked, just means I'm doing my job.
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I know all of that limp D stuff that Donald
Trump has trained right wingers to accept in
lieu of the truth, but that means nothing to
me. Are you a drunk? Are you drunk on the job?
And the issue is, this isn't like one article
from, I don't know, MediEight. There are dozens,
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dozens of us, there are dozens of sources for
that reporting. Now maybe they all independently
decided to lie about you. Maybe that's possible.
You do suck as a human. I can imagine you leaving
a train of people that would love to tank your
reputation. But also it's possible that you're
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actually that person. I mean, look at what his
photos are revealed. This dude's just constantly
going out partying. Literally the most high
profile thing you've done other than bungling
the Charlie Kirk investigation is flying to
Italy to get drunk with hockey dudes. You
are building up a public persona that pretty
well matches the private one that's being leaked
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to the media. So no, I'm not gonna extend you
much grace when your whole vibe is drunk and
idiot. So anyway. Let's get to specifics. So
he was asked about the incident where he was
locked out of his computer and apparently freaked
out and thought that he had been fired. Here
he is being asked about that. Just explain the
computer login issue. were not able to log
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into the, your lawsuit contends that you were
not able to log into the system. What did you
think after you were unable to log into the
system? Let's have a survey. How many of you
people believe that's true? Hang on. Did you
communicate? You asked the question. Let me
answer it. No, Did you communicate with anyone
that you thought you were fired after you?
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were unable to log into. The problem with you
and your report, don't cut me off, you asked
the question. The problem with you and your
baseless reporting is that is an absolute lie.
It was never said, it never happened. And I
will serve in this administration as long as
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the president and the attorney general want
me to do so. I was never locked out of my systems.
Anybody who says- The says the opposite, your
lawsuit can- Anyone that says the opposite
is lying, lawsuit that you filed says that.
Stop, you're being ex. extraordinarily rude.
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And I know maybe that's part of your profession,
but please just stop. If you ask a question,
he can answer it. And then now you're interrupting
me. Just a little bit of respect, man, just
a tiny little bit. Try it sometime. Yeah, you're
being so rude. You can see how you're stressing
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him out. But buddy, go take a shot, relax a
little bit. Okay, yeah, no, that's not it.
Look, at least I guess in that case. He did
say that it was a lie. He denied that he had
freaked out and thought that he'd been fired,
which by the way, actually makes sense. If
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you couldn't log in, you should assume that
Donald Trump has had you fired. That's how
he actually does things. Little issue with
him saying that it's all baseless. It is as
the reporter was trying to get through in the
question, it's in Cash Patel's lawsuit. It
says, Director Patel had a routine technical
problem logging into a government system, which
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was quickly fixed. Now they're spinning it as
if it wasn't a big deal, but they're acknowledging
that it happened there. So again, that is yet
another fact in this that has been corroborated.
And again, dozens of people were talking about
this. In this particular case, he reached
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out to multiple people saying that he had been
fired. Now, it sucks that they can't go on
the record. And the reason they can't go on
the record is they will immediately be fired.
They will be blacklisted from government service
for acknowledging a fact that the regime doesn't
like. That's the concern. But they're not taking
it seriously at all. They're not even pretending
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to. Todd Blanche has now had reporting from
a credible outlet with dozens of sources that
the head of the FBI is routinely drunk, can't
be found. By the way, I should also remind
everyone has no qualifications whatsoever to
be in this position. I've never worked at the
FBI before. And take a look at him responding
to a question, making clear to you that he
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doesn't care how wasted this dude is. I believe
that's now a subject of a defamation lawsuit.
I absolutely did not read that article. The
FBI director is on camera with the US Olympic
hockey team chugging a beer. I do you think
that that's appropriate conduct for the FBI
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director? That has nothing to do with the article.
mean, look, there's a there's there's there's
there's complete hit pieces and you guys are
in this business and you know what they look
like. And the fact that you're asking repeated
questions about them almost is an admission
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of such. But when you have a bunch of people
who are hiding behind closed curtains, oh saying
things but not willing to say it publicly, and
there are certain parts of the article that
are blatantly false because apparently I was
told something that I wasn't. Yeah, there's
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parts of the article that are blatantly false,
the article I didn't read. But I'm sure that
there are parts that are blatantly false. Also,
him being drunk on camera has nothing to do
with an article that's about how he's always
getting drunk. Okay, that makes tons of sense.
You can't, again, dozens of sources for this.
uh And they're anonymous, those, Because by
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the way, if like 10 of them were to come out
publicly, then he'd take it very seriously.
He wouldn't just immediately fire all of them
and then go back to allowing Crash Patel to
do whatever he wants, sure. What do you think?
I think that it's remarkable that the FBI
director has to be defended by the acting attorney
general because the reporter's being rude,
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his job. He's not qualified. He's putting us
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in danger and he just overall sucks. That part
is true. If you're looking for the little
bottles that are missing from your hotel room,
they're in his bottom desk drawer, okay? The
guy drinks all the time, okay? Opinion, opinion,
don't sue me, okay? The guy is just incessant
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as a bad- disgusting, vile person, okay? We're
done protecting your girlfriend. We're done
holding her hair back as she prays to the porcelain
god. Get to step in and stop suing. And the
only reason I believe that he wasn't actually
fired, because originally I'm thinking he probably
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was fired, okay? You know how this administration
works and then somebody dialed it back or something,
not yet, they're not quite ready. The only reason
I don't believe he was actually fired is because
that would have leaked too. This is feeling
like the frenzy around Pambandi, around Noam.
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Maybe he lasts for another year or whatever,
or maybe he's fired tomorrow morning. And if
that happens, who would be surprised at this
point? He is a massive liability. And it's
not like, man, he was doing really good until
this Atlanta piece came out. He was already
docked by using planes for personal travel
so he can hang out with that Israeli spy that
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he's bagging or whatever. was the, They'll
go into Italy just so he can party with some
dudes or whatever and live out some sort of
fantasy there. There's the saying stuff about
the investigations, including Charlie Kirk,
that were totally not true. Either lying or
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he had no idea what was going on with the investigation.
His travel making it so that other FBI agents
need to literally drive cross country to get
to places because he took their plane. He
was already a mess. My god, all this stuff
about how seriously this guy takes the freaking
patches on his windbreaker. This guy was always
a mess. Now we just have a better explanation
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as to why, because he's a drunken mess, allegedly.
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