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
(82,175 posts)Active alcoholics, drug addicts, psychotic, psychopaths, etc etc.
JohnQFunk
(498 posts)they also have a negative side.
Irish_Dem
(82,175 posts)FakeNoose
(42,282 posts)Skittles
(172,707 posts)YES INDEED
Botany
(77,785 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
(4,377 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,844 posts)choose to work in this imbecile's Administration?
Mike Niendorff
(3,665 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
(2,844 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,955 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
(1,630 posts)Id prefer that he go by Yap
AllyCat
(18,979 posts)BumRushDaShow
(171,910 posts)(which it seems he was given his high fallutin' jetset lifestyle) then he is toast.
mwmisses4289
(4,648 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 18, 2026, 09:08 AM - Edit history (1)
twodogsbarking
(19,268 posts)BumRushDaShow
(171,910 posts)
AloeVera
(4,377 posts)It's him!
displacedvermoter
(4,955 posts)BumRushDaShow
(171,910 posts)He's an Indian Viking!!!1!!!11
timms139
(562 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
(27,198 posts)I'm for DEI...it's Kash's hypocrisy.
electric_blue68
(27,198 posts)the rest? Ya got work to do; buddy!
eppur_se_muova
(42,411 posts)paleotn
(22,631 posts)Why do I keep getting his confused with Jack Jeebs.

Bluetus
(3,056 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
(11,478 posts)LilElf70
(1,632 posts)Surprise. Surprise.
Gomer Pyle
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,684 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
(25,699 posts)Efrem is His second choice after he found out Barney Fife has passed.
BumRushDaShow
(171,910 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
(197,082 posts)Uh
..
Agent Gibbs from NCIS?