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LetMyPeopleVote

(177,741 posts) Sun Feb 22, 2026, 06:30 PM 17 hrs ago

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

Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends â€˜official businessâ€™ 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.
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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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Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends 'official business' trip (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 17 hrs ago OP

Shouldn't kash be looking for Savanah's mom? Just curious chicoescuela 17 hrs ago #1

Priorities! 😜 MustLoveBeagles 16 hrs ago #6

He'll be held to account. Kid Berwyn 17 hrs ago #2

He was investigating the Mafia. Bluetus 16 hrs ago #3

American taxpayers paid $75,000 so Kash Patel could fly on a govt airplane to Milan and hang out with USA men's team LetMyPeopleVote 16 hrs ago #4

Hardest working man in the government LetMyPeopleVote 16 hrs ago #5

That's a very good question ⁉️ MustLoveBeagles 16 hrs ago #7

You beat me to it: highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #8

I agree LetMyPeopleVote 16 hrs ago #10

Trying to live up to his name I guess Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 16 hrs ago #9

Ka$hgulp Pramod Patel Blue Owl 16 hrs ago #11

Trump bootlick Matthew Tkachuk put his medal around Kash's neck... SunSeeker 15 hrs ago #12

MS NOW-FBI chief shown in raucous locker room celebration during Olympics trip LetMyPeopleVote 14 hrs ago #13

I'm thrilled that he can do this on taxpayers' money while ACA BigmanPigman 14 hrs ago #14

Hopefully the pictures are in a scrapbook someday .. PufPuf23 14 hrs ago #15

THIS IS WHY kwolf68 14 hrs ago #16

Oh man, the comments to Kash's post are a hoot! People hate him! nt SunSeeker 9 hrs ago #17

I'm not naive enough to think if you get together a group of 30-40 people... Takket 5 hrs ago #18

chicoescuela

(2,911 posts)

1. Shouldn't kash be looking for Savanah's mom? Just curious

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 06:47 PM

17 hrs ago

MustLoveBeagles

(15,498 posts)

6. Priorities! 😜

Reply to chicoescuela (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:31 PM

16 hrs ago

Kid Berwyn

(23,894 posts)

2. He'll be held to account.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 06:53 PM

17 hrs ago

Foe every penny and deed, Ka$h.

Bluetus

(2,576 posts)

3. He was investigating the Mafia.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:11 PM

16 hrs ago

It just happened he was able to take in a hockey game while he was there.

LetMyPeopleVote

(177,741 posts)

4. American taxpayers paid $75,000 so Kash Patel could fly on a govt airplane to Milan and hang out with USA men's team

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:11 PM

16 hrs ago

Link to tweet

LetMyPeopleVote

(177,741 posts)

5. Hardest working man in the government

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:29 PM

16 hrs ago

Link to tweet

MustLoveBeagles

(15,498 posts)

7. That's a very good question ⁉️

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:32 PM

16 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(61,179 posts)

8. You beat me to it:

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:33 PM

16 hrs ago

Link to tweet

The entire regime is such an embarrassment.

LetMyPeopleVote

(177,741 posts)

10. I agree

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #8)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:37 PM

16 hrs ago

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,331 posts)

9. Trying to live up to his name I guess

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:33 PM

16 hrs ago

Blue Owl

(58,761 posts)

11. Ka$hgulp Pramod Patel

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 07:44 PM

16 hrs ago

A name synonymous with hockey culture

SunSeeker

(58,045 posts)

12. Trump bootlick Matthew Tkachuk put his medal around Kash's neck...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 08:46 PM

15 hrs ago

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Way to turn a golden moment into an embarrassment!

LetMyPeopleVote

(177,741 posts)

13. MS NOW-FBI chief shown in raucous locker room celebration during Olympics trip

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 09:30 PM

14 hrs ago

During what his agency said was purely a business trip, FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated with the U.S. men’s hockey team in Italy on Sunday.

FBI chief shown in raucous locker room celebration during Olympics trip
www.ms.now/news/fbi-chi...
— MS NOW (@ms.now) 2026-02-23T01:57:11.685Z

https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-chief-shown-in-raucous-locker-room-celebration-during-olympics-trip

FBI Director Kash Patel, during what his spokesman said was an official trip to Milan for security meetings, was filmed guzzling from a beer bottle and celebrating in the locker room with U.S. Olympic hockey players Sunday after they won the gold-medal game.

Several videos emerged on social media showing Patel in the locker room after the game, but one in particular drew outrage from current and former FBI agents. It depicted Patel pouring what appeared to be beer down his throat, spraying some of it in the air and screaming in celebration as a player put a gold medal around his neck.

Eight former FBI and Justice Department officials sent MS NOW a copy of the video, which they said was drawing outrage as it rocketed around FBI and DOJ circles. ......

FBI spokesman Ben Williamson told MS NOW on Thursday that Patel was going to Milan for a series of business meetings, and it was unfair to describe the trip as having to do with hockey or pleasure.

“Your rag outlet wrote that he went to hang out at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime – even when provided information that your theory was false,” Williamson posed Saturday on X. He did not respond to a request for comment about the video.

The MS NOW weekend show covered this story. They had fun pointing out that the Patel's spokeperson yelled at the media and then ten minutes later Patel posted this tweet

Link to tweet

Patel evidently takes all Sundays off for some sort of hockey league.

This story will be fun to watch

BigmanPigman

(54,917 posts)

14. I'm thrilled that he can do this on taxpayers' money while ACA

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 09:35 PM

14 hrs ago

costs are killing the USA! I hate this whole admin and the "tech" con artists and wish they'd drop dead ASAP. It would save taxpayers' a ton of $$$$$$$$$.

PufPuf23

(9,754 posts)

15. Hopefully the pictures are in a scrapbook someday ..

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 09:39 PM

14 hrs ago

that Kash can enjoy in his prison cell.

kwolf68

(8,382 posts)

16. THIS IS WHY

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 09:42 PM

14 hrs ago

As an American I kinda wish Canada had won the damn game (and they pretty much dominated). The regime is going to turn this into a MAGA sports win. The politicians should do nothing more than congratulate the team and move on. Yet, Patel is pissing on the USA hockey team like a dog marking its territory.

I just can't wait until they visit Trump at the White House, that will sure to be a disaster.

SunSeeker

(58,045 posts)

17. Oh man, the comments to Kash's post are a hoot! People hate him! nt

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Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:10 AM

9 hrs ago

Takket

(23,590 posts)

18. I'm not naive enough to think if you get together a group of 30-40 people...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:20 AM

5 hrs ago

That none of them are going to be MAGA.

But it certainly didn’t look like a small number of the group partying with Patel. I wonder how many of them were not happy he was there and it is a Shame that the MAGA players brought politics into the locker room.

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