{"id":58303,"date":"2025-12-02T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58303\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:55:08","slug":"fbis-patel-in-fresh-humiliation-after-raid-jacket-meltdown-on-agency-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58303\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI\u2019s Patel in fresh humiliation after raid-jacket meltdown on agency plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6VNJCX2XJND67CTDMERKMJVSI4\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5HHBKHDI4JCX7OQSL2ZQNBCRCI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/30\/opinion\/damning-report-labels-fbi-rudderless-ship-under-kash-patel-with-he-and-dan-bongino-more-concerned-with-building-personal-resumes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/30\/opinion\/damning-report-labels-fbi-rudderless-ship-under-kash-patel-with-he-and-dan-bongino-more-concerned-with-building-personal-resumes\/\">The New York Post\u2019s Miranda Devine exclusively reported <\/a>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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"W7IWN2RBDNDBTMPMLVVD6NXBRA\">Patel would not leave the FBI jet without an FBI jacket and apparently did not have one of his own with him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ISZYFKNZWZAWLPNBOTOY4ES5GQ\">Utah field agents were tasked with finding a medium-sized raid jacket that would fit the director. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7ND66SHEHJABJM6RFUQ35UBTYI\">When a jacket belonging to a female agent was provided, Patel raged that \u201ctwo areas on the upper sleeves did not have Velcro patches attached.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KIDKNOHXZJDMJCKY4OL5ONE4PE\">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\u2019s loaner jacket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LBNG2LLBQNCBXMFNQJSZRPAL5Y\">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 \u201crudderless ship\u201d and \u201call f\u2013ked up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NH4DIDLWEJCNDMQCHENZHG6K2Y\">The scathing account says that Patel is \u201cin over his head\u201d while Bongino is described \u201csomething of a clown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BIHNFVQHVZGETAOCI7JNTQSQUE\">The report quotes multiple internal FBI sources describing Patel as inexperienced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D246EHHZ2RCIVAJBZ5DQGI4D3A\">One source said that Patel \u201chas neither the breadth of experience nor the bearing an FBI director needs to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZPCZ3M2O7ND2NEJEQGI7IQZ4MM\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FBE5CGUH4ZAJPL4IN7GA43XEUI\">The alliance in two previous reports had warned about DEI problems and politicization of the FBI during the administration of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FBI Director Kash Patel is facing fresh humiliation after a scathing report said that he threw a tantrum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-58303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}