A reasonable person would expect FBI Director Kash Patel to Avoid Questions About His Reported Alcohol Problems during a Senate hearing, but Patel is fighting to keep his job, so he made the big mistake of engaging with Senator Chris Van Hollen on the subject. drink theme, and it didn’t go very well for Patel.
Van Hollen said Patel made false statements during the hearing:
Let me just say this, Mr. Director. In your response earlier, where you had a little outburst, you made some blatantly false statements… Mr. Director, I was reading some information and asking you to respond to the allegations that are being made. In fact, I was giving you the opportunity to do it, and you took that opportunity. But in doing so, you made these blatantly false statements that I know sound like urban legends in right-wing media about margaritas in El Salvador, which are blatantly false.
And so, coming from the mouth of an FBI director, making blatantly false statements in a hearing like this is extremely troubling, and it makes me wonder whether or not the other things you’ve said are false statements. And so my… because that was the case, that’s a blatantly false statement. You’ve made a few more that are blatantly false, and this comes from the mouth of the FBI director.
Things got even more heated.