FBI Director Kash Patel had a choice to make.
Patel could either fight back or surrender.
And Kash Patel said eight words that the fake news media will live to regret.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
Kash Patel has faced an avalanche of criticism from many Trump supporters over his handling of the Epstein files.
Patel claimed Epstein killed himself, and the Epstein client list didn’t exist.
But many Patel critics also rallied to his side after The Atlantic magazine published a hit piece smearing Patel as a drunken incompetent.
The Atlantic reported that Patel panicked that President Trump fired him after he found himself locked out of his computer, only to later discover it was simply a technical glitch.
“On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out,” The Atlantic reported.
The Atlantic then claimed that Patel’s security team discovered him multiple times in a drunken stupor and that agents had to use SWAT team “breach” equipment to bust down locked doors to recover Patel after he passed out.
“On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials. 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,” the report went on to say.
Patel didn’t just deny the story.
Patel told The Atlantic he is taking this case to a judge after he files a defamation suit.
The FBI Directory what that he will “see you and your entire entourage of false reporting in court… But do keep at it with the fake news, actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up.”
see you and your entire entourage of false reporting in court… But do keep at it with the fake news, actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay-up. https://t.co/MfbHH8OtLv pic.twitter.com/kw5U3LrfMM
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 18, 2026
And just to make sure no one in the fake news media missed the message, Patel said the attacks coming his way told him that he was effective in his job and had no plans to back down.
“Memo to the fake news – the only time I’ll ever actually be concerned about the hit piece lies you write about me will be when you stop. Keep talking, it means I’m doing exactly what I should be doing. And no amount of BS you write will ever deter this FBI from making America safe again and taking down the criminals you love,” Patel added.
