Trump Officials Are 'Openly Discussing' Kash Patel's Replacement as FBI Director: Report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Apr 17th, 2026, 9:06 pm


The Atlantic reporter who broke a wild story about FBI Director Kash Patel said senior officials in the Trump administration are “openly discussing” his successor.

On Friday, the publication ran a piece by Sarah Fitzpatrick, who reported that last week, Patel believed he had been fired by President Donald Trump after he was locked out of an FBI computer system:

On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”

It turned out the lockout was due to a technical issue, according to two people familiar with the matter. The report also alleges that Patel has been intoxicated in public on multiple occasions, and said the director’s security detail has had difficulty waking him at times because he was too drunk. In one incident, the security detail reportedly needed SWAT team “breaching equipment” to enter his room.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-officials-are-openly-discussing-kash-patels-replacement-as-fbi-director-report/

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Link to The Atlantic article (gift) - The FBI Director Is MIA

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump and his crime syndicate leaders are all seriously mentally ill.

Active alcoholics, drug addicts, psychotic, psychopaths, etc etc.

[JohnQFunk]

5. Indeed! And...

… they also have a negative side.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Exactly, they are also evil to their core. Nasty human beings.

[FakeNoose]

23. Some are even serial pedophiles

[Skittles]

2. ONLY TRUMP WHORES NEED APPLY

YES INDEED

[Botany]

3. KA$$H Patel Party on Dude! Weekends in Vegas @ the Poodle Room. We are way down the Weird River.

“He is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room, in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/?gift=cZO22SpZ4qfFjELX0FbSPBNt2wk1BFov9cO9kzyxgCI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

[AloeVera]

8. I couldn't help it.

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[Buddyzbuddy]

4. Quite frankly, what normal person would

choose to work in this imbecile's Administration?

[Mike Niendorff]

6. This is actually an important point.

The corruption is the filter.

Honest, qualified people need not apply.

Only the worst, the most corrupt, the most incompetent are actually in the pipeline.


MDN

[Buddyzbuddy]

10. Agreed.

[displacedvermoter]

27. And cruel, you need to be both corrupt AND cruel

You have to revel in not only closing a National Park or Forest, but then opening a mine there or clear cutting old growth timber there, with sweetheart deals for friends and family.

You have to slash billions in Medicaid and supplemental food assistance and heating assistance to poor people, then brag about it on TV and tell everyone that the recipients of this assistance are all deadbeats.

You have to dress up like Lara Croft with a Rolex, while standing in front of caged human buildings displayed like in a zoo, while scheming with your illicit lover to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the people you have sworn to keep safe.

[Seinan Sensei]

9. 'Kashyap' is his first name. He goes by 'Kash'

I’d prefer that he go by ‘Yap’

[AllyCat]

11. Fired? He sounds like their kind of guy.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. If he was the biggest spendthrift second only to ICE Barbie

(which it seems he was given his high fallutin' jetset lifestyle) then he is toast.

[mwmisses4289]

12. Are he and hegseth drinking buddies?

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[twodogsbarking]

14. Have they located him?

[BumRushDaShow]

15. He's in Valhalla

[AloeVera]

17. OMG!!!

It's him!

[displacedvermoter]

28. Yeah, with Charlie Kirk, I understand.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. That was supposedly the theme of his tribute remarks.

He's an Indian Viking!!!1!!!11

[timms139]

16. Kash got help with

his rise here ." Patel participated in the American Bar Association's "Judicial Intern Opportunity Program", a diversity initiative, as a Pace student in 2003.[9] " Isn't this saying DEI helped him get to where he is .

[electric_blue68]

18. Heh

I'm for DEI...it's Kash's hypocrisy.

[electric_blue68]

19. The one thing I wouldn't make remarks on are his eyes. THAT - he can't help....

the rest? Ya got work to do; buddy!

[eppur_se_muova]

20. Don't forget to discuss CLAWBACK. The guy wasn't at his post, he should forfeit his salary. nt

[paleotn]

21. Have another beer, Jeebs.....I mean Kash.

Why do I keep getting his confused with Jack Jeebs.

[Bluetus]

22. How many outght drunks has Trump hired?

Kavanaugh
Patel
Hegseth
Pirro
Bessent
Madeleine Westerhout

Graham doesn't exactly work on Trump's staff but he's quite a lush.

[Marie Marie]

24. Who's next? Jesse Waters? Pete Doocey? Dwindling supply of Fox idiots to choose from.

[LilElf70]

25. Gee Golly Sarge

Surprise. Surprise.

Gomer Pyle

[PuraVidaDreamin]

26. I take great pleasure in knowing he is living in a constant state of paranoia.

What is disturbing is the thought of what white small membered male racist misogynist is
waiting in the wings to be the next corrupt FBI director.

[Midnight Writer]

30. I hear Trump has been pushing for Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Efrem is His second choice after he found out Barney Fife has passed.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. I actually met Don Knotts

It was literally 50 years ago this year after I got to go to a taping of "The Mike Douglas Show" when it was being taped here in Philly and Knotts was one of the guests (along with Barbara Carerra, the Amazing Kreskin, and Kristy Nichol). He kindly gave me his autograph too!

[underpants]

33. (Checking list) Walker Texas Ranger is out. Law & Order is NBC so that's out

Uh…..


Agent Gibbs from NCIS?

[riversedge]

32. Just fire the lazy SOB!!