FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly become such a distraction for President Trump that he’s likely next in line to get the boot.
“It’s only a matter of time,” Politico quoted a top White House official as saying Saturday. The 79-year-old president is said to be sick of seeing him in the news for scandalous headlines that are “not a good look for a Cabinet secretary,” the official said.
Patel, 46, has spent the last several days talking up his “prolific” crime-fighting as head of the FBI after a bombshell report last week described the bureau in panic mode over his alleged erratic behavior and excessive drinking. He was already thought to be on thin ice with Trump after he was filmed boozing it up in the locker room of the USA men’s hockey team following their gold medal win at the Milan Olympics in February.
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