Kash Patel has admitted to alcohol-related crimes, report reveals, as Trump stands by FBI director

Source: Independent

President Donald Trump is continuing to back FBI Director Kash Patel after allegations that the 46-year-old former podcaster is frequently drunk in public to the point of intoxication and other allegedly troubling behavior reported in a blockbuster magazine article last week.

According to documents published by The Intercept Friday, Patel admitted to having been arrested on two occasions — once for public intoxication as a minor while an undergraduate in Virginia, and once for public urination while out drinking in New York City when he was a law student.

He detailed both incidents in a letter submitted for his personnel file when he was a Miami-Dade County, Florida public defender after being asked by his employer to explain the past arrests because he had disclosed them in his application for admission to the Florida Bar.

“Both of these incidents are not representative of my usual conduct of behavior, and it is my hope that the [Florida Bar] views them as an anomaly,” he said.

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