FBI Director Kash Patel is facing fresh humiliation after a scathing report said that he threw a tantrum over a raid jacket that he was given.
The New York Post’s Miranda Devine exclusively reported that Patel threw a fit before deplaning in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 11, the day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in the state.
Patel would not leave the FBI jet without an FBI jacket and apparently did not have one of his own with him.
Utah field agents were tasked with finding a medium-sized raid jacket that would fit the director.
When a jacket belonging to a female agent was provided, Patel raged that “two areas on the upper sleeves did not have Velcro patches attached.”
The report said that Patel refused to leave the plane until he had two patches to cover those areas. Members of an FBI SWAT Team took patches off their own uniforms that were then given to use on Patel’s loaner jacket.
The new FBI report card comes from an alliance of active-duty and retired agents and analysts, Devine reported, and described the FBI under Patel and top deputy Dan Bongino as a “rudderless ship” and “all f–ked up.”
The scathing account says that Patel is “in over his head” while Bongino is described “something of a clown.”
The report quotes multiple internal FBI sources describing Patel as inexperienced.
One source said that Patel “has neither the breadth of experience nor the bearing an FBI director needs to be successful.”
Patel had been slammed earlier for using an official FBI jet to see his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, perform at a wrestling event in Pennsylvania.
The alliance in two previous reports had warned about DEI problems and politicization of the FBI during the administration of President Joe Biden.