Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends 'official business' trip

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Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends ‘official business’ trip

Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends ‘official business’ trip

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

— @born2balive.bsky.social 2026-02-22T23:17:34.588Z

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-olympics-europe-travel-b2925401.html

FBI Director Kash Patel is once again under fire for his use of official FBI resources for travel as he appeared alongside gold medal-winning members of Team USA hockey on Sunday at the Olympics in Milano Cortina.

The FBI chief has was previously accused of using federal government resources to take “extravagant” trips with his girlfriend, allegedly earning him the derisive nickname “Make-a-Wish Director” behind closed doors.
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Last year, Patel was accused of using a government Gulfstream jet for personal use to fly around and see his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins

Just two years earlier, Patel — then a podcaster and right-wing influencer — had complained that FBI Director Chris Wray was benefitting from "private jet travel that he pays for with taxpayer dollars to hop around the country.”

Now it’s Patel facing that same accusation and claiming that he uses the plane less than his predecessors, while defending their usage for personal trips. Among the reported excursions, Patel has used the jet for a golfing trip in Scotland as well as to go hunting in Texas, along with “date nights” with Wilkins.

[chicoescuela]

1. Shouldn't kash be looking for Savanah's mom? Just curious

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. Priorities! 😜

[Kid Berwyn]

2. He'll be held to account.

Foe every penny and deed, Ka$h.

[Bluetus]

3. He was investigating the Mafia.

It just happened he was able to take in a hockey game while he was there.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. American taxpayers paid $75,000 so Kash Patel could fly on a govt airplane to Milan and hang out with USA men's team

Link to tweet

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5. Hardest working man in the government

Link to tweet

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. That's a very good question ⁉️

[highplainsdem]

8. You beat me to it:

Link to tweet

The entire regime is such an embarrassment.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. I agree

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Trying to live up to his name I guess

[Blue Owl]

11. Ka$hgulp Pramod Patel

A name synonymous with hockey culture

[SunSeeker]

12. Trump bootlick Matthew Tkachuk put his medal around Kash's neck...

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Way to turn a golden moment into an embarrassment!

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13. MS NOW-FBI chief shown in raucous locker room celebration during Olympics trip

During what his agency said was purely a business trip, FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated with the U.S. men’s hockey team in Italy on Sunday.

FBI chief shown in raucous locker room celebration during Olympics trip
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— MS NOW (@ms.now) 2026-02-23T01:57:11.685Z

https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-chief-shown-in-raucous-locker-room-celebration-during-olympics-trip

FBI Director Kash Patel, during what his spokesman said was an official trip to Milan for security meetings, was filmed guzzling from a beer bottle and celebrating in the locker room with U.S. Olympic hockey players Sunday after they won the gold-medal game.

Several videos emerged on social media showing Patel in the locker room after the game, but one in particular drew outrage from current and former FBI agents. It depicted Patel pouring what appeared to be beer down his throat, spraying some of it in the air and screaming in celebration as a player put a gold medal around his neck.

Eight former FBI and Justice Department officials sent MS NOW a copy of the video, which they said was drawing outrage as it rocketed around FBI and DOJ circles. ......

FBI spokesman Ben Williamson told MS NOW on Thursday that Patel was going to Milan for a series of business meetings, and it was unfair to describe the trip as having to do with hockey or pleasure.

“Your rag outlet wrote that he went to hang out at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime – even when provided information that your theory was false,” Williamson posed Saturday on X. He did not respond to a request for comment about the video.

The MS NOW weekend show covered this story. They had fun pointing out that the Patel's spokeperson yelled at the media and then ten minutes later Patel posted this tweet

Link to tweet

Patel evidently takes all Sundays off for some sort of hockey league.

This story will be fun to watch

[BigmanPigman]

14. I'm thrilled that he can do this on taxpayers' money while ACA

costs are killing the USA! I hate this whole admin and the "tech" con artists and wish they'd drop dead ASAP. It would save taxpayers' a ton of $$$$$$$$$.

[PufPuf23]

15. Hopefully the pictures are in a scrapbook someday ..

that Kash can enjoy in his prison cell.

[kwolf68]

16. THIS IS WHY

As an American I kinda wish Canada had won the damn game (and they pretty much dominated). The regime is going to turn this into a MAGA sports win. The politicians should do nothing more than congratulate the team and move on. Yet, Patel is pissing on the USA hockey team like a dog marking its territory.

I just can't wait until they visit Trump at the White House, that will sure to be a disaster.

[SunSeeker]

17. Oh man, the comments to Kash's post are a hoot! People hate him! nt

[Takket]

18. I'm not naive enough to think if you get together a group of 30-40 people...

That none of them are going to be MAGA.

But it certainly didn’t look like a small number of the group partying with Patel. I wonder how many of them were not happy he was there and it is a Shame that the MAGA players brought politics into the locker room.