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FBI director Kash Patel quaffing beer at the Winter Olympics as investigators appear to have made zero progress in the case of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, who has now been missing for more than thee weeks. William Turton\/X <\/p>\nPresident Trump\u2019s top mouthpiece has flipped out over criticism leveled at \u201cKeystone\u201d Kash Patel after the FBI director was busted celebrating with a U.S. Olympic team on the taxpayers\u2019 dime. <\/p>\n
Patel, who, on becoming FBI director, said resources would go solely toward fighting crime, was pictured celebrating in Italy with Team USA after its overtime Olympic victory over Team Canada in the men\u2019s hockey final.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old hockey buff mingled with the players while guzzling beers and beating his chest as if he were part of the team. He even commandeered a gold medal at one point, looping it around his neck. The fallout was spectacular, with many wondering why the embattled crime chief was in party mode while his bureau struggles to find the missing mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie. <\/p>\n
FBI director Kash Patel quaffing beer at the Winter Olympics as investigators appear to have made zero progress in the case of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, who has now been missing for more than thee weeks. William Turton\/X <\/p>\n
There were also concerns about the nature of the foreign jaunt, given that Patel\u2019s office had insisted it was \u201cstrictly\u201d business, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carol Leonnig. <\/p>\n
She provoked the ire of White House communications director Steven Cheung by posting about the saga on X. \u201cYes – Multiple sources have sent me and @KDilanianMSNOW<\/a> this video *appearing to show* @FBIDirectorKash<\/a> Patel guzzling from a beer and partying in locker room w US men\u2019s hockey team. His office insisted this was strictly a business trip. We at @MSNOWNews<\/a> will share what we learn,” she wrote on Sunday evening. <\/p>\n In the early hours of Monday, a bristling Cheung replied<\/a>. \u201cCarol, you\u2019re either mentally deficient or a liar,\u201d he began. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cThis \u2018exclusive\u2019 video your \u2018sources\u2019 sent you is actually from a publicly available Instagram story. Second, Kash was also in Italy meeting with regional partners and security teams. Third, don\u2019t be mad because America won,\u201d he told the American journalist. <\/p>\n The video comes at a time when the FBI is struggling<\/a> to locate 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, after her abduction<\/a> earlier this month. Apparently work-shy Patel, nicknamed Keystone Kash for his ham-fisted efforts as head of the bureau, also has a growing crisis in Mexico to consider. <\/p>\n A military operation<\/a> that resulted in the death of<\/a> the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the world\u2019s most-wanted drug traffickers, has sparked chaos on the streets of many places popular with tourists, including Americans. <\/p>\n As a result, Americans in affected areas have been ordered to shelter in place due to safety concerns. \u201cDue to ongoing, widespread security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity in many areas of Mexico, U.S. citizens should shelter in place until further notice,\u201d the State Department announced<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n Patel also posted on X<\/a> while watching the Team USA game from a box inside Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, according to The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s top mouthpiece has flipped out over criticism leveled at \u201cKeystone\u201d Kash Patel after the FBI director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,21619,2602,9595],"class_list":["post-468420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-hockey","tag-kash-patel","tag-olympics","tag-white-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116121283297511719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468420","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=468420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cheung's](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PCKZFFZGABAJNCBJC5G3XGKWKI.png\")
Cheung’s X retort to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Steven Cheung\/X <\/p>\n![\"Ontario,](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FNT2KDCXFZEWJBPUO6QZDK352E.jpg\")
Patel’s tenure as FBI Director has been rocky to say the least. MediaNews Group\/Inland Valley Da\/MediaNews Group via Getty Images <\/p>\n