Trump Officials Are 'Openly Discussing' Kash Patel's Replacement as FBI Director: Report
Source: MEDIAite
Apr 17th, 2026, 9:06 pm
The Atlantic reporter who broke a wild story about FBI Director Kash Patel said senior officials in the Trump administration are openly discussing his successor.
On Friday, the publication ran a piece by Sarah Fitzpatrick, who reported that last week, Patel believed he had been fired by President Donald Trump after he was locked out of an FBI computer system:
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.
It turned out the lockout was due to a technical issue, according to two people familiar with the matter. The report also alleges that Patel has been intoxicated in public on multiple occasions, and said the directors security detail has had difficulty waking him at times because he was too drunk. In one incident, the security detail reportedly needed SWAT team breaching equipment to enter his room.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-officials-are-openly-discussing-kash-patels-replacement-as-fbi-director-report/
Link to The Atlantic article (gift) - The FBI Director Is MIA
Irish_Dem
(81,869 posts)Active alcoholics, drug addicts, psychotic, psychopaths, etc etc.
JohnQFunk
(494 posts)they also have a negative side.
Irish_Dem
(81,869 posts)FakeNoose
(41,957 posts)Skittles
(172,185 posts)YES INDEED
Botany
(77,563 posts)He is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room, in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/?gift=cZO22SpZ4qfFjELX0FbSPBNt2wk1BFov9cO9kzyxgCI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
AloeVera
(4,324 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,739 posts)choose to work in this imbecile's Administration?
Mike Niendorff
(3,655 posts)The corruption is the filter.
Honest, qualified people need not apply.
Only the worst, the most corrupt, the most incompetent are actually in the pipeline.
MDN
Buddyzbuddy
(2,739 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,763 posts)You have to revel in not only closing a National Park or Forest, but then opening a mine there or clear cutting old growth timber there, with sweetheart deals for friends and family.
You have to slash billions in Medicaid and supplemental food assistance and heating assistance to poor people, then brag about it on TV and tell everyone that the recipients of this assistance are all deadbeats.
You have to dress up like Lara Croft with a Rolex, while standing in front of caged human buildings displayed like in a zoo, while scheming with your illicit lover to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the people you have sworn to keep safe.
Seinan Sensei
(1,590 posts)Id prefer that he go by Yap
AllyCat
(18,913 posts)BumRushDaShow
(170,766 posts)(which it seems he was given his high fallutin' jetset lifestyle) then he is toast.
mwmisses4289
(4,433 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 18, 2026, 09:08 AM - Edit history (1)
twodogsbarking
(19,006 posts)BumRushDaShow
(170,766 posts)
AloeVera
(4,324 posts)It's him!
displacedvermoter
(4,763 posts)BumRushDaShow
(170,766 posts)He's an Indian Viking!!!1!!!11
timms139
(556 posts)his rise here ." Patel participated in the American Bar Association's "Judicial Intern Opportunity Program", a diversity initiative, as a Pace student in 2003.[9] " Isn't this saying DEI helped him get to where he is .
electric_blue68
(26,993 posts)I'm for DEI...it's Kash's hypocrisy.
electric_blue68
(26,993 posts)the rest? Ya got work to do; buddy!
eppur_se_muova
(42,136 posts)paleotn
(22,448 posts)Why do I keep getting his confused with Jack Jeebs.

Bluetus
(2,949 posts)Kavanaugh
Patel
Hegseth
Pirro
Bessent
Madeleine Westerhout
Graham doesn't exactly work on Trump's staff but he's quite a lush.
Marie Marie
(11,380 posts)LilElf70
(1,598 posts)Surprise. Surprise.
Gomer Pyle
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,648 posts)What is disturbing is the thought of what white small membered male racist misogynist is
waiting in the wings to be the next corrupt FBI director.
Midnight Writer
(25,551 posts)Efrem is His second choice after he found out Barney Fife has passed.
BumRushDaShow
(170,766 posts)It was literally 50 years ago this year after I got to go to a taping of "The Mike Douglas Show" when it was being taped here in Philly and Knotts was one of the guests (along with Barbara Carerra, the Amazing Kreskin, and Kristy Nichol). He kindly gave me his autograph too!
underpants
(196,843 posts)Uh
..
Agent Gibbs from NCIS?