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BOMBSHELL: Kash Patel Arrested for Public Urination after a night of Drinking report! (Original Post) MagaSmash Apr 26 OP
Just another day in trump world. Turbineguy Apr 26 #1
;-{)..... Goonch Apr 26 #2
The article referred to in the video Wiz Imp Apr 26 #3
Arrested over 20 years ago. QueerDuck Apr 26 #4
Discovery in the upcoming litigation will be fun LetMyPeopleVote Apr 26 #5
Kash Patel blows past alcohol test deadline as critics label him 'raging alcoholic' LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #6

QueerDuck

(1,916 posts)
4. Arrested over 20 years ago.
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 11:20 AM
Apr 26

The Actual Timeline:

2001 (Public Intoxication):
Patel was an undergraduate at the University of Richmond. He was escorted out of a basketball game by campus police and arrested for being drunk in public while underage.

2002/2005 (Public Urination): While a law student at Pace University, he was arrested for public urination while walking home with friends after drinking at local bars. (Patel’s 2005 letter describes this as a "gross deviation from appropriate conduct.&quot

LetMyPeopleVote

(181,465 posts)
6. Kash Patel blows past alcohol test deadline as critics label him 'raging alcoholic'
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 05:54 PM
Wednesday

Kash Patel is ignoring the alcohol test deadlines. I suspect that Patel is going to have fun in discovery if his silly case against The Atlantic goes to trial.

FBI Director #KashPatel has not submitted the test results to Congress and hasn't responded to Democrats’ request, the House Judiciary Democrats spokeswoman confirmed to Raw Story.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-04-29T19:30:20Z

https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2676830790/

Nearly 20 House Democrats demanded last week that FBI Director Kash Patel take and share the results of an Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test by Tuesday amid accusations of excessive drinking, but as of Wednesday, Patel has yet to respond to the lawmakers’ request, a House Judiciary Democrats spokeswoman confirmed to Raw Story.

On April 21, 18 Democratic lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee signed off on a letter addressed to Patel citing a “damning and explosive report” published by The Atlantic earlier this month, in which multiple insiders told the magazine that Patel’s “excessive drinking” and “unexplained absences” had “alarmed” his colleagues at the FBI.

In the letter, the lawmakers issued Patel a deadline of April 28 to fill out and submit to Congress the results of the 10-question screening test developed by the World Health Organization in the 1980s to identify harmful alcohol use among individuals.

Patel has fiercely denied the accusations, responding by filing a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic for defamation.

“We understand that you have sued the journalists who have reported on the widespread concerns about your job performance and alcohol abuse, demanding a whopping $250 million in damages, plus disgorgement of income,” the letter addressed to Patel said.

“However, the American people deserve to hear the facts directly from you now – not your lawyers weeks or months from now – to determine for ourselves whether your continued leadership of the FBI in fact constitutes a severe ‘national security vulnerability.’”
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