Brett Cooper — DC Runs on Hypocrisy and Booze

- Kash Patel, please stay off of my timeline like I am begging you. Please stay out of the news unless you are making arrests. And I say that with love, I say that with love because I want this administration to succeed and your pr, your image is directly connected with that success in my opinion. Like I'm honestly starting to miss the good old days when we didn't know what shoes the FBI director was wearing to A UFC fight.

But we didn't know who he was dating when they weren't doing podcasts together, when we didn't know the ins and outs of his personal life when he was off the clock. And I'm saying all of this because in case you missed it, a scathing expose came out about Kash Patel and it does not look good. So this is from the Atlantic. The headline reads the FBI director is MIA. Apparently he's not MIA for my timeline, but maybe he is from his job.

Anyway, they go on and the subtitle reads, K Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of Excessive Drinking and Unexplained Absences. Now this headline, like I said, is obviously incredibly ironic considering he is all over my ex feeded all the freaking time, but it is usually not for a good reason. Now these accusations of drunken MIA behaviour blowing up at staffers, not being able to be reached for meetings, not being able to use his own computer, all of this comes on the heels of his viral Olympics video with the men's hockey team.

And so obviously that is not helping either. But guys, contrary to my previous episodes where I have gleefully spent time ripping into this man, this story, this episode, it is not even about Kash Patel, his love of beer with the men's hockey team or even his country music Sensation girlfriend. It is about how both the left and the right clutch their pearls over the very things that they defend happening in their own party.

It is all a big game of division that we are not part of. Now before we dive into the story, I wanna thank you guys so much for being here. Thank you for liking the episode. Thank you for subscribing to the channel. If you wanna stay up to date on everything we're doing, make sure to ring that notification bell and check out brett cooper.com. That is where you can find Cooper Confidential, which is all my behind the scenes content.

It is where you can find links to tickets for my upcoming shows. All of that good stuff is over brett cooper.com. Alright, so allegedly, according to this article, Kash Patel is in full panic mode over his fears of being fired from the FBI, which obviously makes sense after Trump recently asked Kristi Noam and Pam Bondy and the Atlantic reported that multiple anonymous, but multiple White House officials have said that they're actively looking for Kash Patel's replacement and that everyone is just sitting around waiting for the call that he has officially been fired.

However, when asked by the Atlantic top members of the admin like Caroline Levitt still had his back. So in the article she said Crime across the country has plummeted to the lowest level In more than a hundred years, many high profile criminals have been put behind bars. Director Patel remains a critical player on the administration's law and Order team. And then the acting attorney general Todd Blanche told the min statement, Patel has accomplished more in 14 months in the previous administration did in four years anonymously Source hit pieces do not constitute journalism, but that really doesn't paint the entire picture of the situation or this article obviously considering the over two dozen people who were interviewed by the Atlantic and they all apparently made it clear that he was not fit for the job.

Like this is the most damning part of the piece they wrote. Several officials told me that Patel's drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government. They said he is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication in many cases that the private club NEDs of Washington DC while in the presence of White House and other administration staff, he is also known to drink to excess at the poodle room in Las Vegas where he frequently spends parts of his weekends.

He's jet setting off to Vegas. I god knows why - We're not the guys running around on private jets. - He's heading back home early in his tenure meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol fueled nights six current and former officials and others familiar with Patel's schedule told me this. On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty walking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated according to information supplied to the Justice Department and White House officials, a request for breaching equipment normally used for SWAT and hostage rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors according to multiple people familiar with the request.

Like that stuff is crazy. Like the picture that this paints is of a drunken unstable man, he's out partying, he's not equipped to do his job, he's gone missing like this is the person who is supposed to be keeping the law and order of this country in order. That was like the worst way for me to ever say that. And I mean we have talked about this a lot in regards to Trump 2.0, the current Trump administration as a whole.

But Kash has really struggled with his pr, his comps and his messaging like the hypocrisy. But flying around on private jets when previously before coming into office, he said that you know, he would never do that. That those private jets needed to be gotten rid of flying all over the country to see the country music sensation who is now apparently getting taxpayer funded FBI security guards yelling at people behind the scenes because he didn't have the right FBI bomber jacket to wear, getting custom bright yellow Nike dunks decorated with FBI taglines and logos, his own nickname, Kash Kash Money with the dollar sign that which he then wears to UFC tournaments that he got to by flying around on his private jet that he previously said he would never use because it was so ridiculous.

Now all the while normal American people are seeing all of this and they're going, okay, well see actually even working like we're hearing about lower crimes, but he's here with, you know, Dana White, there's no Epstein arrest like Nancy Guthrie is still missing and you have Kash money dunks like are you the FBI director or are you just here to have fun? And like I, I'm not trying to just exclusively shade Kash Patel here, it is not just a Kash problem.

Like to be fair, it feels like everyone in modern politics really just wants to be a celebrity right now. They all just wanna be podcasters like guys like quit your jobs then buy a microphone. It might be better anyway, but back to the article at hand, within 24 hours of this article dropping Kash had already filed a $250 million defamation suit against the Atlantic and apparently he told them that he was ready to file the suit before they even published the article.

They gave him only like a two hour window to provide any comments and quotes for the article. And when he saw what they were publishing, he, I'm ready to sue you. So he did good on that promise and he has officially sued them and that obviously is a pretty big lawsuit. He has learned from the best he learned from Trump suing all these media outlets. But the Atlantic is apparently not backing down. So they responded with this statement from the Atlantic.

We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel and we will vigorously defend the Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit. Now here's the thing, as critical as I am of Kash, even though I enjoy making fun of him based on this journalist's track record, this woman, I completely understand why he filed this suit. Like I completely get it because this woman is behind some of the most famous slandering pieces of journalism in modern politics and her name is Sarah Fitzgerald.

So Sarah Fitzgerald is the one who wrote the hit piece on Pete Hegseth when he was getting confirmed accusing him of being a drunk while working at Fox. She also had, and this is probably the most damning evidence against her, but she had the top byline in NBC's reporting about Brett Kavanaugh allegedly having a gang rape ring in college, which obviously turned out to be a sham. The entire story fell apart once it was investigated.

And while this last piece wasn't her directly, her editor at the Atlantic that she's directly working under Jeffrey Goldberg is the one behind Trump's infamous suckers and losers story where anonymous sources said that that is what he had called fallen soldiers. Now Trump obviously has long called that story a hoax. He said, I never said it, but witnesses have come out both supporting the journalist and supporting Trump.

Who knows what really happened. Again, it just, you know, it was back and forth all the time. But this writer and her editor, the reason why I'm bringing all of this up is because they are rife with controversy. That is what I'm trying to say. It is not like they have the most perfect track record of all time. And the Atlantic, again, to be fair, is no friend to Republicans or to this administration. So I understand why Kash was immediately on the defence and I understand why so many Republicans are not quick to believe this journalist.

But either way, as you saw in their statement, the Atlantic is obviously standing 10 toes down on this article. And even if their sources turn out to be lying, it's not like Kash Patel has some squeaky clean record to begin with. And at this point, like I honestly when I look at the story, I am just tired of the hypocrisy that comes with all of the outrage and I'm tired of it from both sides because when it comes to stories and accusations like this, you know, whether it's in the Atlantic or the New York Times or NBC news, whenever it is somebody on someone's own side, on their own team, people are silent.

They say it's not happening, they deflect, they brush it off, they shift the blame like it is a normal strategy. We all know it, we all have probably partaken in it at some point or other, like for example with this most recent Kash Patel story, it's apparently cool said one Republican congressman, as long as it doesn't affect his job in a negative way, I'm cool. The Georgia Republican added. So even if this is true, this congressman is saying it's not impacting his job.

So whatever he's cool, it's chill. And this is very similar to how the right at large reacted when the same woman again, same woman accused Pete EF of being a drunk based on more anonymous tips from Fox News employees while he was, you know, having his tenure there. And again, republicans generally supported him like Senator Mark Wayne Mullen even went so far as to say this in one of Pete, he's hearings. - How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?

Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign for their job? And don't tell me you haven't seen it because I know you have. And then how many senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down? No, but it's for show you guys make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy because a man's made a mistake and you want to sit there and say that he's not qualified.

Gimme a joke. - All right, now I'm just gonna pause there. I have so much to say about this clip and it just drives me up a wall for more than one reason and maybe not the reason that you expect because right after he said, you know, how many senators do you know who have shown up drunk to vote? Like did you hear everyone in the peanut gallery just laughing when he said that? I mean it's just like, it's all a big joke to them.

They're just like, oh, that's so true, that's so fun. Like they're out there partying in DC Madison Hawthorn says there's like orgies happening, they're getting it on in congressional closets according to, you know, George Santos, they're having their sexual misconduct investigations hidden from the public and then they're just sitting here laughing about drunken behaviour and like Mark Wayne Mullen, he was defending hegseth against these, you know, slanderous anonymous allegations and I understand why and he made a great point, but he really just exposed the entire system for being even more depraved and perverse.

And if we're being honest here, he wasn't really defending Pete's character or saying that everything was a lie and slanderous as much as he was saying it doesn't matter because all of you guys are freaks too because all of you have made mistakes as well because all of you also have drinking problems and show up drunk to work like so what he drinks all of you guys too. So what he cheated on his wives, you guys too. I mean like what a remarkable argument.

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Alright, so back to the point, yes, even though I have a problem with what he's saying and I don't like the implications of it, Mark Wayne Mullen was right because the left was, you know, clutching their pearls and being hypocritical about the whole he set situation, but that doesn't really make the story at hand any better because the right does the exact same thing. I mean think back to the election cycle in 2024 when Republicans and I honestly did this too, but when they spent countless entire campaign talking about how she was drunk and honestly she probably was, but I mean they kept going back to that and mocking her for that and saying she was unfit for office and Republicans were so much better.

We had more class, we had more standards. Like they even mocked her for having a glass of wine after she lost the election. Like, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna pile onto her for that. If I also had been embarrassed on a global stage and had the worst campaign in the history of the country, I too would be having a glass of boxed wine from Trader Joe's with my family. That is how I would soothe myself. But even today, literally as I sat down for this episode, Kamala is going viral for saying something else retarded, as she always does and people are claiming that she is a drunk yet again.

As you can see here, this is one example and wokeness Kamala Harris is drunk on stage again. And of course throughout the entire time that was happening, the left shot that all down they deflected, they said, no, she never drank, she's not a drunk. Even though obviously it was clear that something was going on. And like fast forward to right now, the left is also very quiet about the alcohol accusations against disgrace Congressman Eric Swalwell, which in case you missed it, yes there is more to his story.

It just keeps getting worse. Like this is the most recent headline, staggering number of booze deliveries Eric Swalwell charged to campaign including a Vegas bender. Like was he there with Kash Patel, were they at the Poodle Lounge together? Like I, like I just thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars spent on booze. And I'm sure that all of this is just scratching the surface, not just for him but for other people in Congress.

And guess what? All of this, it's not new. Like think back to 1969 when Ted Kennedy was in Congress and he allegedly had been drinking at a party, got into a car with one of his congressional aide, took a wrong turn, drove the car off of the bridge into the water, and his congressional aide died and he didn't report the incident to the police until 10 hours later when the woman's body was found. That should be obviously incriminating, he should not be working in government anymore.

And yet he served no jail time. He continued to serve in the Senate for another four decades. I think they even gave him the title of like lion in the Senate. Like the media largely ignored his past all while he was struggling with alcoholism in his personal life to the point where his kids in the nineties were staging interventions. He was showing up to work in Congress, obviously drunk and flushed. Like the point is, the reason why I'm bringing that up is because none of this is new in politics.

It has always been messy. And in large part, your own party protects you like TLDR, everybody there drinks, everybody gets blackmailed, they protect their own side until it's convenient for them not to. They use blackmail against one another and then each side freaks out and deflects when the accusations point at them, even if they are protecting people on their own side for doing the exact same thing. Like my view as I watch all of this is like maybe you're all just terrible.

We're all unfit, you are all got awful people and you have no right to claim any kind of moral superiority over the other side or over us normal Americans. And I think a lot of us unfortunately have wasted breath going after the other side hoping that ours will, you know, hold themselves to a better standard, prove to be better, only to be let down. It's just unfortunate and it is disappointing. So that really is the main point to this story.

Maybe Cas Patel is a drunk, maybe he's not. My view is that the story just based on the author and her track record is probably a bit exaggerated. But I also wouldn't be surprised based on what we've just seen on social media that maybe he has some erratic behaviour. Maybe he's more interested in the poodle lounge than actually doing FBI work again, just based on what we've seen online. So all that being considered, especially with all of the shakeups happening in the Trump admin right now, all I can say is that hopefully the sweet voice of his country music sensation can soothe his fears and worries.

And then maybe you'll have to spend a little less time at the Poodle Lounge.