FBI Director Kash Patel wants to bring the UFC to the FBI, sources say

[highplainsdem]

Source: ABC

Newly-installed FBI Director Kash Patel, whose proclaimed plans to overhaul the nation's premier law enforcement agency have rattled many within the bureau, has proposed enhancing the FBI's ranks with help from the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the martial-arts entertainment giant whose wealthy CEO, Dana White, helped boost President Donald Trump's reelection, according to sources who were told of Patel's proposal.

On a teleconference Wednesday with the heads of the FBI's 55 field offices, Patel suggested that he wants the FBI to establish a formal relationship with the UFC, which could develop programs for agents to improve their physical fitness, said sources who had been briefed on Wednesday's call.

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Nevertheless, it was Patel's proposal to ask the UFC for help that quickly created some buzz within the FBI community. UFC is based in Las Vegas, where Patel now lives.

White, who is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, has long been friends with Trump and last year became a big donor to Trump's presidential campaign. He joined Trump on stage in Florida during Trump's victory speech in November just hours after polls closed on Election Day.

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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-director-kash-patel-bring-ufc-fbi-sources/story?id=119255318

[SheltieLover]

1. Not the Onion?

[highplainsdem]

3. I wish this was satire. It should be. It looks like Trump doing a favor for a big donor.

[SheltieLover]

5. FBI Agents could easily take those fake aholes apart

Yes, more grift.

[dweller]

2. Not the Onion

✌🏻

[Codifer]

7. We are at the mercy

of people who never evolved past thirteen years old..... or maybe nine.

I grieve for my country.

[RobinA]

49. Not Only

have they never evolved past 13 years old, but they think the world runs like it does on a TV show. Maybe that's what people mean when they say they want younger people in politics. People who have never read a book, particularly a history book. Some of these ideas they are coming up with just make no real world sense.

But then, I'm a Boomer. I still think running America is a serious business with serious consequences rather than a cartoon.

[sop]

4. If not The Onion, then Borowitz?

Somebody tell me this is a joke. Please.

[Aviation Pro]

6. Go ahead, you stupid fuck

Let's see a bunch of roided up cowboys try to teach something to the Hostage Rescue Team.

[NJCher]

8. No question about it

Big fat consulting fees for the UFC from our tax dollars.

FBI agents will laugh contemptuously.

These people are full of stupid ideas.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Pigs feeding at the corruption trough.

[Wingus Dingus]

10. Every day, we're more of a joke but it gets even less funny.

[TygrBright]

11. You can NOT make this shit up. n/t

[DV1]

12. Someone tell Patel

that TRT is a lot cheaper.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Next they will hire Kyle Rittenhouse to teach agents how to deal with crowd control.

[multigraincracker]

14. uFC is a Putin Org.

[Dave Bowman]

15. What a stupid idea.

[lapfog_1]

16. officially roided up FBI

not just a random person or two.

Well Trump will like it, they will look the part of "Judge Dredd".

Comic book crap.

[Solly Mack]

17. The Real Pimple Popping Housewives of Jersey Shore Got Talent Survivor House of Top Model Masculinity.

Woohoo!

America! The world can't wait to watch!

You keep it real!



Joke. Country.

[tanyev]

18. To write plot lines and scripts the agents can memorize for the off chance

they find themselves in a hand to hand fight???



Also, what the hell does he think real FBI agents do? IT’S NOT LIKE THE MOVIES.

[KatyaR]

19. Oh my dear doG in Heaven....

I really, REALLY want to break something.

We are seeing the stupidest of the stupid rise to the top, and it ain't pretty.

[Initech]

44. I can hear other countries say "Now entering Moron Zone, formerly known as the United States Of America..."

[yellow dahlia]

20. They really do think this all some kind of game.

A reality tv show for their own entertainment.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Lots of men overcompensating for something by fascination with brutal forms of fighting. . . .nt

[Bettie]

22. What the actual

fuck? Never mind, it's just a regular day in maga world.

[WestMichRad]

23. Next up: UFC will be tasked with

… training Navy Seals.

[milestogo]

24. Everything will be turned into a pay-per-view television show.

[LSparkle]

53. I know an event I'd pay to watch

🔥😆

[Buddyzbuddy]

25. LOL

. Oh crap, was he serious?

[tulipsandroses]

26. More grifting. How much is White's kickback?

Not only is this a stupid idea - it's corruption at its finest. So UFC gets a big government contract meanwhile they cut Medicaid, USAID and other vital programs.

[jojog]

27. We are in Idiocracy

With President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

[GoYouPackersGo]

29. President Camacho would be better than what we's got.

How about Frito Pendejo for Attorney General, while we're at it.

[IronLionZion]

28. That a-hole drives a red Tesla Cybertruck with his name on the vanity license plate

do with that info what you will, DUers

[DinahMoeHum]

34. "Geez, what a waste of machinery"

[stillcool]

30. whew...I read all the comments

my cheeks hurt from laughing. As ludicrous as it all is, that was great fun

[Bread and Circuses]

31. I'm beginning to think that ...

The entire OrangeShitler administration has rancid worms 🐛 in their brains.

[Faux pas]

32. Yeah that's the ticket

you smarmy basTurd

[jls4561]

33. Just what the country needs...more idiots taking steroids.

Cause they’re ashamed of their tiny penises.

[ToxMarz]

35. Now if he can only convince the criminals to commit all their

crimes in a cage at the center of a packed arena on pay-per-view. What could be simpler.

[Hugin]

36. I have been unfortunate enough to have two of my sane days in a row.

I really need to talk with my shaman about upping my dosages.

Maybe he needs a new bone rattle. What he’s using isn’t killing the pain anymore.

[moniss]

37. No doubt that "Cash" will follow this up

with a recommendation that the agents "improve" their investigative abilities by taking seminars from a new investigative firm he just heard about named the Richard Tracy International Investigative Services Improvement and Agent Training Program, Inc.

[AdamGG]

38. Because in America

fascism has to be really fucking stupid.

[Ilsa]

39. Trying to turn our lives into a Schwarzenegger-style reality tv show.

They'll start streaming and broadcasting law enforcement episodes with martial arts thugs. Then they'll set up a national betting pool. It'll be like watching The Running Man.

WTAF???

[Renew Deal]

40. Awesome

lol

I look forward to seeing the bare knuckle cage matches.

[58Sunliner]

41. JFC.

[niyad]

42. This is from The Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me this is from The Onion!!!

[Initech]

43. These are not serious people.

[Montauk6]

45. I predict "The Onion" will be closing operations before all this is over.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

46. I hope all those Republican agents who enabled this understand they have no balls.

You're being publicly mocked by your own chosen bosses, you un-American fuckups, and the evidence is accumulating that you deserve it.

[slightlv]

47. Does Kash have even the foggiest idea that these "fighters"

are not the big, strong warrior types he sexualizes in his fantasies?! These guys do performance art, for gods sake. It's all fake. I'm sure some FBI agent is gonna want to be paired with one of them... and will totally trust them having his back... /snark

[Ray Bruns]

48. Sure. Why not?

[Vinca]

50. Guess SNL won't need any scriptwriters this week.

[FullySupportDems]

51. I bet he wouldn't even pass the FBI psych exam

Of course I don't imagine most people in this admin would.

[JT45242]

52. The same UFC with two Russian mob primary owners

Dana white is spokesman and figure head for this organization that has been a money washer for Russian mob for decades.

Yeah...that doesn't sound fishy.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

54. The skill sets are NOT interchangeable

This is so stupid that it is sad