Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy
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Patel celebrates in the locker room after coming under fierce scrutiny over his personal trips on government jets

Patel celebrates in the locker room after coming under fierce scrutiny over his personal trips on government jets

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.

But on Sunday he posted photos of himself grinning alongside members of the men’s hockey team mere hours after a spokesperson for his agency blasted the mere suggestion that Patel had used government resources for a personal vacation.

  • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m not saying being a lawyer is appropriate for the role, just that he does surprisingly have a reasonably professional qualification. He seems like an idiot but he must be some degree of competent if he can pass a law degree. His ridiculous children’s books and evidence of his corruption would suggest he is not suitable for the current role.

    • fulcrummed@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Snort enough adderall and anyone can cram/rote learn enough temporarily to scrape through a degree. Did he pass the bar anywhere? I assume it’s a case of that old joke - what do you call a guy who partied all through med school, stole the answers to exams and scraped through by the skin of his teeth? “Doctor”.

      • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Apparently he did pass the bar, but holy hell there’s some real corkers in his Wikipedia page. He’s a Ugandan Asylum Seeker and his senior year yearbook quote is “Racism is man’s gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason” pretty rich for his current general attitude. He also claimed to be lead prosecutor on the Benghazi case but barely worked on it.

        • fulcrummed@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          Good grief - that’s wild, but somehow wholly unsurprising. Asylum seeker from Uganda to FBI Director. It’s the American Dream™️. I can’t imagine his mother could be proud of this version of her son. I hope she’s disappointed as hell, not because she deserves it, but so he has to at least face that reality, because whatever bug-eye inducing, drug-fuelled, taxpayer-funded fever dream he’s living isn’t anyone else’s reality (no one with a soul anyway)