Kash Patel CAUGHT in Another EMBARRASSING Scandal

0:00 John, I have some terrible news for you.

0:01 Oh no.

0:02 Uh, the head of the FBI, Cash Patel, is Etsy addicted dork

0:08 and a drunk.

0:09 A latigious dork and a legious drunk at that.

0:12 I I I'll explain in a minute,

0:13 but I find this humiliating for our nation that the nation's America's top cop,

0:18 he cannot stop making swag with his name and, you know, likeness on it

0:23 and making the S a dollar sign.

0:25 That triggers

0:26 which is the which it it actually triggers me the worst of anything.

0:28 It triggers me to the stratosphere.

0:30 Okay, let me explain.

0:30 So, the latest story comes to us from Sarah Pitzpatrick uh at The Atlantic,

0:34 who is writing bangers about Cash Patel despite reports that the FBI has

0:38 launched a criminal investigation into her previous

0:41 reporting about Patel's quote excessive drinking.

0:44 And he launched a $250 million defamation suit

0:47 uh about a story that quoted two dozen sources.

0:50 She had two dozen sources.

0:52 Did you see Jeff Goldberg's like response to this?

0:56 like they put out a statement and it was very like if this is true.

0:59 So now I'm wondering like so they don't appear

1:02 to know that they're under investigation from the FBI

1:05 which is even scarfy.

1:07 And by the way, shout out to all

1:08 the free speech absolutists who supported Donald Trump.

1:10 So this latest story though is not going to help Patel's case that he

1:13 is a drunk as it alleges that Cash has created personally branded bourbon.

1:17 The bourbon uh it's got a little FBI badge there being held by an Eagle's talon.

1:23 It's got Cash's name, his title, and then, as you mentioned,

1:26 it spells his name like the cutesy way with the money sign.

1:29 Uh, sometimes he personally signs them.

1:32 Yeah, you got you got to you can't just get an engraved.

1:34 Put a number nine on it.

1:35 Is he the ninth FBI director?

1:37 Does anyone care?

1:37 No one No one player.

1:40 dork.

1:40 Um, so there's a couple issues here.

1:42 Let's start with the first one.

1:43 Uh, this is not going to help Cash

1:45 Patel beat the allegations that he drinks too much,

1:47 that he's sometimes drunk on the job, that he's been hung over on the job.

1:51 Yeah, but he's got a lot of bottles of bourbon.

1:52 He's giving them away though.

1:53 He's giving them away.

1:54 You don't think he's drinking any of these?

1:56 Just chugging beers in the Olympics.

1:57 Giving away the Olympics giving away bourbon.

1:59 Yeah.

1:59 Um, this was a man, by the way,

2:00 in this previous Atlantic story who was reportedly

2:02 so drunk on the job that a security detail

2:05 requested tools that one would use to break down

2:08 a door if you were like a SWAT team.

2:09 Yeah, that always happens, right?

2:11 That feels like you're a bourbon bottle when you're a Woodford bottle deep.

2:14 That happens on the job sometimes, you know.

2:16 So, when you have a security detail,

2:17 they have to wake you up in the morning cuz you're too drunk.

2:19 So, this detail upset me allegedly.

2:21 Allegedly.

2:21 Uh, Patel and his team were using like

2:23 DOJ planes to transport his personal branded bourbon around.

2:26 And in March, he brought a case to the FBI facility at Quantico.

2:29 Remember when they did that training with a bunch of Ultimate Fighting Guys?

2:32 I sure do.

2:32 Because what FBI agents really need to do is learn how to grapple.

2:36 They didn't go through any training.

2:37 Some jiu-jitsu takedowns.

2:39 Uh, at one point though, a bottle went missing,

2:41 causing Cash to quote, "Lose his mind,

2:44 and then he threatened to polygraph and prosecute his own

2:47 staff over the missing bottle." So when I read that part,

2:50 I was like I think he is now mentally unwell.

2:54 Like it's not I thought he was just a dick,

2:56 inexperienced, lazy, self-promote, like all the stuff is there.

2:59 But like the first of all, who cares that a bottle was missing,

3:02 right?

3:02 He's bringing them everywhere.

3:04 Drinking it.

3:05 So it doesn't really matter much that a bottle's missing.

3:07 And then to start threatening to polygraph people.

3:09 But there's another quote in the piece about polygraphing, too.

3:12 Like this is just like a comment.

3:13 They're all everyone at the FBI who again whose

3:16 job is to it's the top law enforcement organization.

3:18 Yeah.

3:19 In in our country.

3:20 Um they're all worried about being polygraphed by Cash Patel

3:24 about being mean to him.

3:24 Not like not like for working for the Chinese.

3:27 Right.

3:27 Yes.

3:28 Exactly.

3:28 So they and and and they were like

3:30 looking for advice from other FBI former FBI officials.

3:33 And the guy was like, "Yeah, I tell everyone just stay away from him.

3:35 Like run when you see him run away

3:37 from him." like the the boss, the FBI director,

3:39 the guy who is chugging beer at the Olympics

3:41 because because they're worried that their credibility as agents

3:44 that they have worked so hard for their entire career

3:46 and trained for will be at risk because they are

3:49 somehow associated with Cash Patel or have his dumb bourbon bottle.

3:52 And despite like decades of attacks from Trump like alleging that, you know,

3:57 the FBI is the deep state,

3:58 that they're out to get him, that a bunch of liberals,

4:00 my experience with the FBI is they were just like boy scouts.

4:04 Like you can't get into the FBI if you've done drugs in your past.

4:08 A little more lenient on that self over the CIA you run with some folks.

4:12 But the FBI like they're the boy scouts.

4:13 They're the nerds.

4:14 They're like, you know,

4:16 square jawed former athletes take the job really seriously.

4:19 Probably don't drink.

4:20 And he's just like shotgun and beers.

4:23 It's an embarrassment.

4:24 He is an embarrassment.

4:25 Okay.

4:25 The second issue in my opinion is even worse,

4:28 which is that the FBI director should have better

4:30 things to do than design personally branded Etsy like.

4:34 So, let's put up some more um images from his previous collection.

4:38 So, we got the the Punisher thing.

4:40 Apparently, he's given out little Punisher.

4:43 Is that a bottle opener?

4:44 I don't even know what that the skull.

4:45 He's got a flag there.

4:46 Looks like some sort of uh Premier League thing.

4:49 Those are the shoes.

4:49 The shoes really triggered me.

4:51 Again, the number nine on them.

4:52 Uh he wore those to his little uh jiu-jitsu FBI training thing.

4:58 Holy

4:57 Sweatshirts.

4:57 Uh the the the coin.

5:00 Um, but again like this dork is he's designing bourbon bottles.

5:03 He's going to hockey games.

5:04 He flowing the taxpayer dime to the Olympics

5:06 to a place called the Boondoggle Ranch.

5:08 He went there for a vacation.

5:09 It's it's a joke.

5:10 He's making us less safe.

5:11 Well, his uh his girlfriend is a country singing sensation, so it is important.

5:16 Did you see the thing that um uh Patel's merchandise once

5:19 caused an international diplomatic incident because he gave two 3D printed

5:23 replica revolvers to two New Zealand cabinet members and uh they

5:27 they had to destroy the items because they're illegal under local law.

5:30 He made them 3D printed guns that they had to destroy.

5:33 No one could Google that.

5:35 You couldn't Google the New Zealand laws in advance.

5:37 Amazing gift.

5:38 So, by the way, merch that is still available on the website

5:41 he co-ounded includes uh beanies with cash stuff on it,

5:44 t-shirts, uh hoodies, trucker caps, their playing cards.

5:48 There's a fight with cash punisher scarf for $25.

5:51 He's got to get fired.

5:53 Like Trump has to read this and be so embarrassed.

5:55 He's got to get fired.

5:55 S I still I my my bet on this is

5:59 uh before the I mean before the end of the year.

6:02 You want to take it to Cali post post midterms.

6:04 I think I think I bet with Dan on this.

6:05 post post midterms and but before the end of the year.

6:08 He used to sell Justice for All January 6th t-shirts in honor of those arrested.

6:13 Like is he making money?

6:14 I I'm interested to know this website of his where he's selling

6:17 this merch still even though he's been FBI director for how however long.

6:20 Like what's he what's the what's he making on that?

6:23 How many how many items is he selling?

6:25 I think are people buying cash merch?

6:27 I think initially the money was supposed to go to some foundation

6:29 that he pretended was used to pay for people getting prosecuted for stuff.

6:35 But there's no I mean he could have just

6:37 No, he's buying bourbon with it.

6:38 He's just buying He's buying bourbon.

6:39 Yeah, he's just putting it back in.

6:40 And by the way, John,

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6:43 we commit to you that if Cash Patel sues us,

6:45 we'll sue him right back.

6:46 I don't even know how this works.

6:47 Me neither.

6:48 Lawyer, we'll sue his ass.

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6:50 Subscribe to Pod Save America.

6:51 I know like two lawyers.

6:53 Okay.

6:54 Uh that's fun with cash.

6:55 I also want to ask you about some new polling.

6:57 So, a few weeks back, I think you and I did a segment

6:59 about Donald Trump picking a fight with the Pope.

7:01 Uh then he posted an image of himself as Jesus Christ.

7:05 This one does healing someone.

7:06 Uh the Washington Post asked voters how they felt about the Jesus Christ image.

7:10 I don't know if you saw this.

7:11 I'd love to get your take on these numbers, whether they're good or bad.

7:13 87% of Americans have a negative view of Trump depicting himself as Jesus.

7:17 That includes 80% of Trump 2024 voters.

7:20 C.

7:21 Can you remember like anything about Trump

7:24 or like any other president polling that badly?

7:26 No.

7:26 No.

7:27 I think that is a that is a new record.

7:29 That is like rock bottom.

7:30 We don't have, you know, we don't have 8020 issues anymore.

7:33 We don't have 70, like this is a 90 something, 9010 issue, maybe even worse.

7:39 Um, yeah, I think that's probably why you've

7:42 seen them all back off on the Pope stuff.

7:44 Uh, although I guess the other day Trump said,

7:47 I think he's putting Christians at risk all over the world.

7:50 He's still alleging that that the Pope wants Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

7:53 As if the Catholic Church hasn't been pretty hard

7:54 against all nuclear weapons for a very long time.

7:57 Yeah, I do think that.

7:58 So, he said that a couple days ago and then

8:00 yesterday I think he was asked about this and he's like,

8:02 I don't want a nuclear weapon.

8:04 That's what I have to say to Pope Leo.

8:05 I just don't want you every time he's doing it now.

8:08 They're like just back the off.

8:10 And they sent Rubio to go meet with Pope

8:12 Leo because obviously he's not meeting with Trump.

8:15 And obviously JD Vance is a huge up and he

8:18 can't meet with Vance probably because he hates him.

8:20 So they send Marco.

8:21 Do you see what Mar speaking of gifting?

8:23 Do you see what Marco gave the pope?

8:25 No.

8:26 So, was it like an iPod like us and the queen?

8:28 Dude, it is a little like this big crystal football with the with

8:36 like American football.

8:37 Why would we give him and it's engraved with a baseball?

8:40 And so Rubio says to him, "I know you're a baseball guy,

8:43 but look, it's got the State Department engraving on it.

8:45 It's a football." And and this is what Pope Leo says.

8:49 Jesus Christ.

8:49 Wow.

8:50 Okay.

8:53 I mean, guys, poor guys from Chicago.

8:55 And then he gave him a plant of peace which is which is like it's like he got it

9:01 in the state department gift shop like on his way

9:04 to the airport to to the Vatican to see

9:08 I think like dude I okay I think we can figure this out.

9:11 I think Marco fancies himself a football guy.

9:14 He does.

9:17 So that's hilarious.

9:18 But also the the Pope is the Pope is famously a White Sox fan.

9:21 He like went to the World Series in I think 06.

9:23 Yeah.

9:24 He's a big F.

9:24 Yeah, that's that's doesn't not has not talked a ton uh about football.

9:29 How do you screw the pooch that hard?

9:31 By the way, if I was Pope Leo and Marco Rubio came to meet with me oneon-one,

9:34 I'd be like, "Hey, brother, your soul is burning in hell.

9:38 I clean it up." I didn't know until I read it, I think in Playbook today,

9:42 that Marco was like Catholic and then Mormon for a time.

9:48 What?

9:47 And then converted to some evangelical religion and then back to Catholicism.

9:52 What's with all these converts?

9:53 Who has the time to convert?

9:55 I don't know.

9:56 Converting to anything seems like such a pain in the ass.

9:57 I know.

9:58 I'm just I'm I'm Can you imagine?

10:00 Remember Tony Dopal over at CBS?

10:02 He did his conversion to Judaism.

10:03 You had to get a second circumcision.

10:05 Are you thinking of doing that now that you're since you're married to Hannah?

10:08 You're going to you're getting the second snip.

10:10 I I got I got to keep what I got down there.

10:14 Okay.

10:14 Speaking of people going to hell,

10:16 uh the Washington Post asked voters what they thought

10:17 of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsath uh praying for US

10:21 troops fighting in Iran to quote uh inflict quote

10:24 overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.

10:28 We ask these things with bold confidence

10:30 in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ.

10:33 This is something Hexath actually said.

10:35 Hexath is, by the way, reversing decades of efforts by the Pentagon to not

10:39 sound like the wars we are waging are holy wars.

10:42 Yes.

10:43 Because that's bad.

10:45 It's always bad.

10:46 It's been bad for thousands of years.

10:48 Famously.

10:49 Yeah.

10:49 Open a history book.

10:50 Crusades not good.

10:51 I know you have that crusader tat, but it wasn't good for anybody.

10:54 Um, so John, uh, also wildly unpopular.

10:57 69% nice of Americans disliked that prayer from Hexath.

11:02 So again, that's a lot of evangelical Christians.

11:04 Of course they do because it's a crazy thing

11:06 to do to invoke Jesus's name while you're bombing people.

11:11 like that is not no one you don't Abraham Lincoln

11:14 in the civil war his most famous like talking about the the second

11:17 inaugural right where he's like both sides prayed to god but like

11:20 there there has been a long tradition throughout the US history even

11:24 among Catholics Christians whoever very religious

11:27 politicians even those who invoke religion

11:30 more than I think we'd like when you're talking about like let's

11:33 bomb the out of uh these Muslims in in Jesus Christ's name

11:37 like that is beyond what any president I can remember ever done.

11:41 It's insane.

11:42 Back when I was in the White House, uh, or we were in the White House there,

11:45 we used to be really concerned about these glossy magazines

11:48 that al-Qaeda would create called Inspire that they used to recruit people.

11:51 Yeah.

11:51 And now like ISIS and al-Qaeda are just like looking at heads out.

11:54 They're like, "You guys are making this so easy for us.

11:56 They could not be easier to recruit.

11:57 We're just we're just doing their propaganda for them.

11:59 You're bombing girls schools.

12:01 You're waging overt holy wars against, you know, billions of people.

12:05 Like there if if you wanted to help al-Qaeda build an army,

12:09 this is how you would do it." Yep.

12:10 And what really like god forbid something happens cash will be on it.

12:15 No one is going to look back when you say when something if

12:18 something happens and then you say like well look what they tried to do.

12:21 Look what look what he was doing.

12:22 Look what Trump was doing.

12:24 This inspired these attacks.

12:25 Then you'll be like oh you're saying that America deserved it.

12:28 You know and it's like that's no but like right now

12:31 this is going to come back to bite us in the ass.

12:34 Absolutely.

12:34 A little concept called blowback.

12:35 By the way uh the Washington Post had a great write up on this.

12:38 They asked one Trump voter about Haggath's prayer

12:41 and she said it made her quote extremely uncomfortable.

12:44 That kind of language sounds like the language of al-Qaeda.

12:48 So good voters voter voters are smart.

12:51 Trump voter by the way.

12:52 By the way, also I don't know if you saw this um sent it to our company Slack.

12:56 Hex had this video up today where they're like

12:57 trying to take credit for all this new Pentagon budget.

12:59 I saw that you sent it and I saw

13:00 the tweets about it but I haven't watched the video.

13:02 the headline, it's like all this about how like they've

13:05 got like um deal team six is being more efficient,

13:07 but the headline is that they have a $1.5 trillion budget

13:10 request and it's like I want everyone to circulate this video

13:13 cuz like literally nothing could be more unpopular than spending $1.5

13:17 trillion on let's say bombs to drop on schools in Tyrron.

13:22 Only the ballroom billion dollars on the ballroom and the Jesus

13:26 image which we're going to cut in right here.

13:28 We're addicted to cutting in things.

13:30 Jesus.

13:31 Billion dollars on the ballroom.

13:32 Did you notice that the uh the Qatari

13:34 jet is coming just in time for America's 250th?

13:38 Yeah.

13:38 Wonderful.

13:38 I'm sure they I'm sure they really got all the the Chinese spyware out of there.

13:42 I'm sure that'll end really well for

13:43 And Trump was at the in the oval holding up yesterday.

13:45 The UFC what they're what they're doing

13:46 to the White House lawn for the UFC event.

13:48 It's just a they're having they're all having a good time,

13:51 you know, with all of our money.

13:52 They're spending some of it on bombs.

13:54 The rest of it they're spending on just, you know, Versailles on the PTOAC.

13:58 Yes.

13:59 there's so much gold.

14:00 Did you see the the photos of um Trump

14:02 in the Oval Office with the king and there's just gold everywhere.

14:05 Apparently the king was asked like at the very end the last event they

14:08 did some like goodbye photo and press spray and some reporter was like what

14:11 do you think of the new oval and the king's like and Trump goes

14:14 he likes it and I think the king goes we'll see or something like that.

14:18 Yeah.

14:18 Yeah.

14:19 When it's when it's too goddy for King Charles.

14:21 Yeah.

14:21 Yeah.

14:21 That's uh that's that's no bueno.

14:23 Anyway, that's it for us.

14:24 Uh we dislike Cash Patel.

14:27 Uh, Pete Hexf 2.

14:28 Uh, we hope al-Qaeda does not attack our country ever,

14:31 but uh, thank you for watching this video.

14:32 We appreciate it.