Keystone Kash Desperately Tries to Clean Up Lawsuit Bombshell

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FBI Director Kash Patel is flailing after his $250 million defamation lawsuit ended up lending credence to an allegation he’d trashed as false.

The FBI director’s aides are desperately trying to explain why the lawsuit against The Atlantic over its explosive report on Patel’s alleged excessive drinking and paranoid behavior appeared to substantiate a central detail from the story.

The report cited one episode in which Patel “struggled to log into an internal computer system” on April 10, and subsequently had what two sources described as a “freak-out,” believing he had been fired by President Donald Trump.

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