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FBI Director Kash Patel didn\u2019t even try to hide the fact that he flew to the Milan Winter Olympics on the taxpayers\u2019 dime to watch U.S. Men\u2019s Hockey take home the gold on Sunday \u2014 despite his spokesperson\u2019s proclamation that the mere suggestion was \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patel posted photos of himself in the post-match locker room Sunday after U.S.A. defeated Canada in overtime by a score of 2-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cUnity, Sacrifice, Attitude- what it takes to be the best in the world. These men live and breathe it. Now Team USA are gold medal champions, legends standing on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for representing the greatest country on earth, in the greatest game ever created,\u201d Patel wrote.<\/p>\n FBI Spokesman Ben Williamson spent days trashing reports by MS NOW\u2019s Ken Dilanian and others who reported Patel would be attending the event.<\/p>\n \u201cYour rag outlet wrote that [Patel] went to hang out at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime \u2013 even when provided information that your theory was false. When you\u2019re ready to correct that let me know. Won\u2019t hold my breath,\u201d Williamson wrote.<\/p>\n Dilanian retweeted Williamson and included a video of Patel celebrating in the locker room.<\/p>\n Plenty of critics piled on to accuse the FBI director of wasting taxpayer money when they felt Patel should have been solving crimes in the U.S. The FBI\u2019s highest profile case currently is weeks-old disappearance of Today Show Host Savannah Guthrie\u2019s mother, Nancy.<\/p>\n Even Steve Baker, reporter for the pro-Trump outlet The Blaze called out Patel\u2019s spokesman, writing, \u201cUmmm\u2026what was that you said, @_WilliamsonBen?\u201d<\/p>\n Patel has previously come under fire for using the FBI\u2019s private jet<\/a> to attend a wrestling event, and to see his country singer girlfriend perform at State College, PA. Patel also provided her with government security.<\/p>\n When Fox News\u2019s Laura Ingraham asked Patel about using the jet for his \u201cpersonal joyrides,\u201d he responded, \u201cI\u2019m entitled to a personal life just like my other agency counterparts with their partners. Do I support my girlfriend? Absolutely. And do I take trips with her? Absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/p>\n The post Kash Patel Ripped for Attending US Hockey Game After His Spox Raged at \u2018False\u2019 Reporting On His Olympics \u2018Hang Out\u2019<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot FBI Director Kash Patel didn\u2019t even try to hide the fact that he flew to the Milan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[56679,595,10041,5,21619,51701,3255,30830],"class_list":{"0":"post-468364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-ben-williamson","9":"tag-dylan-larkin","10":"tag-fbi","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-kash-patel","13":"tag-milan-winter-olympics","14":"tag-team-usa","15":"tag-the-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116121093036394174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}