Originally published at: Kash Patel Blusters About Suing Over Devastating Profile
‘Conspicuous Inebriation’ On Friday evening, The Atlantic published a devastating account of Kash Patel’s first year as FBI director. The gist of the piece is this: “the problems with his conduct go well beyond what has been previously known, and include both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences.” Most of the piece focused on Patel’s alleged…
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Anxiously awaiting the details of the discovery process!!! Facts and testimony are facts and testimony!!
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Patel threatening to sue The Atlantic: “Print it, all false, I’ll see you in court—bring your checkbook.”
Can The Atlantic sue Patel for damaging their reputation?
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Party leaders have been clamoring in recent months for Trump to take a more focused role in selling the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which has been rebranded as the “Working Families Tax Cuts.”
He’s too busy doctoring up what he thought he saw and feuding with the pope.
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While bashing the legacy mainstream media has been a longstanding theme in the Hive (to which I have been a willing and bitter contributor), it has intensified substantially during the last two weeks. In this debate, we should nevertheless consider pieces like this from the Philly Inquirer’s Will Bunch:
Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Opinion
While most of the MSM has largely failed its primary duty to be free, fair and, when warranted, unceasingly critical of government and politicians, there is still a substantial, free and functioning press like the Inquirer across print, TV, radio and the growing Internet medias.
In thinking about Orban’s fall, I was struck that he could be brought down with his regime that had pretty much persecuted independent journalism into a very marginal existence, and further, controlled all the institutions including the courts, businesses and academia. The corruption and failure finally triggered the Hungarian people to rise up and depose him despite a very unfair, rigged electoral system designed to keep him in power. It may be that Putin is equally doomed despite a non-existent electoral structure, an effective organized opposition and a free press in Russia.
How long could Orban have controlled Hungary, and how long can Putin stay in power if there was still a significant free press, largely unrigged elections, resistant lower courts (despite a captured and corrupt highest court), overwhelming unpopularity, and 7 to 8 million citizens taking to the streets every few months calling for an end to their regimes? I have hope because these are precisely the things we have here in America at this moment. The Hungarians overthrew their tyrant without these advantages. With them, we should have no problem doing so as well.
And today’s Heather & Paul:
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For all who are owed very strongly and bigly.
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Kashyap should know (as I learned in American History nearly 50 years ago) that truth is a defense against libel.
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No SCOTUS Retirements This Year
Pfffft, I don’t believe a word of it. Usually, an announcement like this is counter to what actually happens. Stay tuned.
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Ignore the laws! Ignore the Supreme Court! How dare anyone think they can constrain the Supreme Being, um, Chief Executive, um, the President from doing what he wants!
Historians sue DOJ over presidential records opinion : NPR.
How dare they think that three separate, yet co-equal branches and checks and balances actually means something!
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The south Florida case is supposedly pursuing a grand-unifying conspiracy theory
Well, if that’s what Donald wants to spend his money on.
What…???
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Drunk on the job? Seems like Ka$h should be slotted as the next SecDef.
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They said the same thing the last time, with RBG. Precedent and all, you know.
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Down the road, down the road.
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By “agonize”, it means that Trump has, through his hamfisted and inartful rhetoric, inadvertently exposed their lies and equivocations, and they are caught red-handed.
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