In Front of Our Noses: Partyin’ Patel
Official business, dontcha know.
MS Now reports: Kash Patel heads to Milan for the Olympics — on the FBI jet.
FBI Director Kash Patel flew today on the FBI’s Gulfstream jet bound for a trip to the winter Olympics in Italy to watch one of his favorite sports: men’s ice hockey, according to three people familiar with his plans.
Patel, an avid hockey player and fan, will be at the Olympic festivities and plans to attend the bronze medal competition in men’s ice hockey on Saturday and the competition for the gold medal on Sunday, the people said.
An FBI official confirmed Patel’s travel plans, but said he has several official government purposes for attending, including a meeting with an ambassador, briefings on Olympics security and other government meetings.
Patel’s travel to Italy was reported Thursday afternoon by CBS.
Government accounts estimate it costs U.S. taxpayers at least $5,000 per flight hour for the FBI Gulfstream to fly, meaning Patel’s trip to Milan is likely to cost as much as $75,000.
And then he ended up in the locker room.
Oh, BTW,
The last known instance of an FBI director traveling to an Olympics setting was in November 2003, when then-Director Robert Mueller went to Greece for a two-day visit. But Mueller made his trip eight months before the Olympic events to review security preparations for the upcoming Summer Olympics there
Quite frankly, this just looks to me like petty corruption and abuse of office by Patel because he can. These people are not public servants, they are grifters.
But, you know, this is the administration truly concerned with fraud and waste!
I can’t decide if Keystone Kash has the eyes of a serial killer or a frightened rabbit.
@CSK: Mash em up, a serial killer rabbit like the one in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Google says Patel scored one goal and one assist in 14 games. Another wannabe, the defining characteristic of this administration.
Maybe he should take skating lessons from the cult leader.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116119516514284571
@CSK:
I’m pretty sure the dictionary entry for “deer caught in the headlights” has a generic photo of Patel.
@Jen:
Perfect!
@Kathy:
No doubt.
I’m old enough when it was considered scandalous for the White House Chief of Staff to use a taxpayer-funded limo to support his stamp collection.
@James Joyner: It’s amazing what you can get away with when you have a media complex devoted to telling 1/3 of the people that there’s nothing to see here, and in fact, look at those evil Democrat squirrels!
He should be impeached, convicted, and then charged criminally with defrauding the Unites Sates. he should also be made to pay for all his travels. I bet he’s racked up well over a million in flight hours and landing fees.
Tokyo Rose Garden Leavitt will tell us that Patel using the FBI jet to go to the Olympics isn’t corrupt because he didn’t try to hide it. In fact, all going to Milan did was keep Patel from devoting all of his attention to his prime mission – being an internet troll.
As to the photo, someone far more clever than I said, “That’s the look you have when you realize that one wasn’t just a fart….”
He said he was there because he loves America. Just a coincidence he is a hockey fan getting a free trip at taxpayer expense.
Steve