Ann's Mega Dub: 2026

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Sarah's been hiding out in the Australian Alps

For weeks people have wondered where con artist Sarah Ferguson was hiding out. Now the secret is know and Sarah's not happy. Delilah Gray (She Knows) reports:

Sarah Ferguson has been in hiding for months since her bond with trafficker Jeffrey Epstein came to light. There were rumors she was couch-surfing, that she was staying with Priscilla Presley, in the UAE, and more, but her true location was revealed this past week (and she allegedly believes someone in the royal family doxxed her).

As many know by now, Sarah has been hiding out in a mountain hideaway in the Austrian Alps, and she's allegedly trying to figure out who leaked the information.

"She's convinced this wasn't luck. Very few people knew where she was. In her mind, that points to someone on the inside," an insider told Rob Shuter for his Naughty but Nice Substack. "This kind of thing has been part of the system for years. When pressure builds, people protect themselves by leaking - even if someone else takes the fall."

They added, "She believes someone spoke to protect their own position, and she's the one left dealing with the fallout. Right now, she doesn't feel she can rely on anyone. That's the reality she's facing."

She's been hiding out in the Australian Alps. Who do you think gave her up? One of her daughters? Also noting Sarah is Lizzie Lanuza (Stylecaster):

Well, if the reports from The Mirror are to be believed, it could go from bad to worse. The outlet quoted royal historian Marlene Koenig, who believes Ferguson has shown “no moral accountability” and instead “just keeps repeating the cycle over and over and over again – she’s never learned."

“Sarah is guilty of immorality, lack of moral clarity, of grifting, of not being able to understand that you have to be personally responsible for your life,” Koening added. “And she has failed abysmally all that.” Which is why the outlet claims she's getting close to the "ultimate betrayal" of Andrew and the royal family.

“The greed, the lack of moral clarity, lack of morals – neither [Sarah nor Andrew] have a backbone. It’s all about taking responsibility for your life, as opposed to wanting self gratification on many, many different levels.”

Reports indicate there have been attempts to sell a tell-all book, but according to the Sunday Express, “She ended up with a string of rejections and zero response in a few cases.” However, the experts who know Ferguson best don't believe she will stop.

Guilty of immorality, lack of moral clarity of grifting, of not being able to understand that you have to be personally responsible for your life? Marlene Koenig sounds like a very observant woman. And Aaron Tinney (OK) notes:

Sarah Ferguson is said to be embroiled in a new royal rift while struggling emotionally in the aftermath of her fall from grace, with insiders telling OK! she has been "drowning her sorrows in drink" and directing frustration towards her new rival Queen Camilla.

Ferguson, 66, the former Duchess of York, has largely remained out of the public eye in Britain since December, when she attended her granddaughter's christening in London.

Following the stripping of royal titles linked to the wider fallout surrounding her ex-husband, the former Prince Andrew, also 66, Ferguson has reportedly been dividing her time between Europe, the Middle East and the United States.

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They added: "Queen Camilla has increasingly become the person she directs much of that frustration toward. Because they once shared a close and longstanding bond, Fergie struggles to understand what she interprets as a lack of loyalty or support now. That shift in their dynamic has been taken very personally, and it has fueled a sense of betrayal that is only deepening the perception of a rivalry between them, at least from Fergie's point of view, even if much of it is playing out behind closed doors."

Sarah brought all of this on herself. She stood up publicly to Jeffrey Epstein because, it turns out, she knew her money making would be over if she didn't. But while standing up to him publicly, she was still in contact with him and telling him she didn't mean what she said publicly and just slobbering all over him. She hadn't planned on that coming out. It did. She's exposed as the grifter that she is, that she truly is.

This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"

Tuesday, Apri 21, 2026. What did Chump do with the money donated for his library, why can't he offer a consistent explanation for the war or even for the gas prices, he's lost another Cabinet member, he wants to put a structure up in DC that will dwarf and minimize Arlington Cemetery, and much more.

Let's start with a press release regarding Chump and disappearing money. Senator Elizabeth Warren's office issued the following yesterday:

Paramount, ABC, Meta, X indicated that they have no explanation or are unwilling to share information about where millions in settlement money have gone — or where it will go

As much as $63 million in settlement payments to Trump Presidential Library slush fund missing

“These are troubling answers…particularly given the vast tide of corruption and self-enrichment that has occurred during your Administration, and your ongoing attempts to seek massive personal payments from the federal government.”

Text of Letter (PDF)

Paramount Response (PDF) ABC Response (PDF) Meta Response (PDF) X Response (PDF)

Washington, D.C. – In new responses to U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), Big Tech CEOs indicated that they have no public explanation for where as much as $63 million in settlement money to Donald Trump’s now-dissolved Presidential Library fund has gone. The lawmakers released these responses today and sent a new letter to President Donald Trump pressing for answers to solve the ongoing mystery of the missing millions.

The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund, Inc. was incorporated in late 2024 with a stated purpose “to preserve and steward the legacy of President Donald J. Trump and his presidency.” From late 2024 to mid-2025, four Big Tech companies — Paramount, ABC, Meta, and X — contributed as much as $63 million in settlement payments to President Trump's future presidential library." But in September 2025, the Fund was administratively dissolved for failure to submit a mandatory annual report, and in December, the incorporator filed articles of dissolution — with no explanation.

The lawmakers wrote to the four companies in March 2026, seeking answers about the funds. Key points from the companies’ responses include:

ABC reported that its “parent company made a payment by wire on December 19, 2024, to . . . the escrow account established by the Plaintiff’s counsel” and that “[i]n response to our recent ask for a status update, Plaintiff’s counsel, on Thursday, March 19, 2026, provided written notice to us that the IRS has recognized the 501(c)(3) status of ‘The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc.,’ and requested that we provide written authorization for release of the funds to that entity.” This response appears to indicate that ABC had no knowledge of the whereabouts of the contents of the Fund in the immediate aftermath of its dissolution, and the response still fails to provide clarity on whether the ABC settlement has been transferred to the Foundation.

Paramount noted that it made a payment of $16 million and that “[w]ith respect to your questions regarding the disposition of funds and subsequent developments concerning the presidential library fund, the Company’s involvement was limited to making the payment as specified in the Settlement Agreement” — providing no answers about the disposition of funds following the dissolution of the Foundation.

Meta confirmed that it paid $22 million “to support a presidential library for President Trump . . . for the purpose of settling the pending claims” but refused to provide further “confidential” details.

X likewise confirmed that it paid $10 million in a group settlement that included President Trump but refused to comment further on “confidentiality” grounds.

“The companies do not know or are unwilling to share their information about what happened to the millions of dollars given to the Fund,” wrote the lawmakers. “This leaves the public completely in the dark about what happened to the Fund, whether there was any money in it when it was dissolved, what happened to that money upon the Fund’s dissolution, and why a second entity with the same purpose as the Fund was created in the first place.”

There have been no disclosures about the Fund’s disposition of any funds, and the White House press office has not responded to requests for comment. There appears to be no individual taking responsibility for the closure of the Fund and disposition of its money: no Fund board members were ever appointed, and the only person to sign any of its public documents has minimized his role.

In May 2025, a second nonprofit, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation Inc., was incorporated with the same stated purpose as the Fund. Questions remain as to why the Foundation was formed when the Fund already existed and whether any money held by the Fund was transferred to the Foundation once the Fund was dissolved.

“You owe the public an explanation,” wrote the lawmakers to President Trump, requesting answers to a series of specific questions by May 1, 2026.

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Every day, the news gets a little bit worse for Donald Chump. Sarah-Jane Collins (DAILY BEAST) reports:

Donald Trump’s poll numbers have plunged to their lowest point of his second term, a brutal new poll has revealed.

The NBC News poll, conducted between March 30 and April 13, found Americans are particularly concerned about the economy, the continuing war in Iran, and how the president is handling these issues.

With an approval rating of just 37 percent, Trump’s already dwindling popularity has dropped 10 points since last June.

Overall, 63 percent of adults said they disapprove of the president’s performance, with 50 percent strongly disapproving.

Peter Aitken (NEWSWEEK) focuses on another finding in the NBC NEWS poll, "President Donald Trump is set to see his worst approval ratings of this second term as new polling from the NBC News Decision Desk released Sunday found that eight out of 10 Gen Z voters say the country is on the wrong track. The poll, conducted powered by SurveyMonkey, found that that not only is Trump seeing a 76 percent disapproval among voters aged 18 to 29, but that young Republicans are driving the downward trend, marking a troubling shift in a demographic largely credited as key to the party retaking the White House." Kinsey Crowley and Kathryn Palmer (USA TODAY) also note his poor polling:

Trump's approval rating has been net negative for about a year and has been fluctuating but trending more negative over the last six months. Here is Trump's average approval rating on April 20, according to aggregators:

New York Times: 40% approve, 56% disapprove.

Silver Bulletin: 39.7% approve, 56.4% disapprove.

RealClearPolitics Poll Average: 41.2% approve, 56.6% disapprove.

[. . .]

A Quinnipiac University national poll found 38% of voters approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, compared to 55% who disapprove, comparable to the poll's results from March 25. The poll was conducted April 9 - 13 among 1,028 self-identified registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

The poll also found a majority of voters (65%) blame Trump for the rise in gas prices, while 34% don't blame him much or at all. It is split along party lines, with a vast majority of Democrats blaming him and a majority of Republicans not blaming Trump.

The poll also asked about Trump's threat to Iran that "a whole civilization will die tonight." Sixty-four percent of voters found it unacceptable, while 28% thought it was acceptable.

As Chump chokes in one poll after another, his attacks on Pope Leo last week didn't help and aren't helping. George Chidi (GUARDIAN) notes Catholics:

Many expressed admiration for Leo’s uncompromising position against war as a fundamental expression of Catholic doctrine, and said they viewed attacks on the pope’s call for peace as absurd.

“The president was saying that the pope wanted Iran to have nuclear weapons, and I don’t think the pope said that. The president just says stuff that people haven’t said,” said James Echols after mass at St Patrick’s Catholic church in Norcross. Asked if he viewed the president’s comments as an attack on his religion, Echols replied: “I don’t think he really cares about religion. I think he just says things to try to get people on his side.”

Echols voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. His wife, Maribic Echols, voted for Trump. The president’s comments have caused her to reconsider her support, she said.

“I’ve changed, because this is not what I was expecting when I was voting for him – about the war, and about people being arrested who are not supposed to be arrested,” she said.

About 55% of American Catholics cast a vote for Trump in 2024. Polls suggest Catholic support for the president is eroding as the war, high gas prices, the revelations in the Epstein files and a litany of scandals within the administration take their toll.

Chump's war on Pope Leo has not benefitted him. Zoe Sottile and Gloria Pazmino (CNN) also speak to Catholics:

“I like Donald a lot, but he needs to calm down,” said Lola Reese after attending Sunday Mass at St. Patrick’s.

Growing up Catholic in New Orleans taught her the importance of the separation of church and state, Reese said.

The president’s back-and-forth with the pope might hurt his relationship with his supporters, she said. She called for the president to “back off and kind of calm down his little bitty, tiny streak of a little meanness here and there.”

Reese’s sentiment was shared by several churchgoers, including those who said they had voted for the president but saw his recent comments as out of line.

Anita Bauman, a Catholic Trump voter from Pennsylvania, said the president’s comments were “colossally stupid.”

“I don’t think it helps the president at all,” said Bauman, who supported the president’s actions in Iran, where in early April US-based rights group HRANA said more than 3,600 people had been killed since a joint US-Israeli bombing campaign began in February.

“I do think that things needed to be done in Iran,” she said. “I think that regime was dangerous, but I don’t think picking a fight with the pope or trying to school the pope on theology is a good idea at all.”

Athena Dawson (IRISH STAR) reports:

A new survey shows that nearly 60% of Catholic Republicans did not believe President Trump was right to criticize Pope Leo XIV, as the president continues an ongoing feud with the Vatican.

The survey shows that 59% of Catholic Republicans disapprove of the president’s attacks against the pope, a figure that differs greatly from that of their other Christian Republican counterparts: 68% of Evangelicals believed he was correct, while 63% of Protestants also thought he was correct. Overall, 59% of Christians felt Trump was right to criticize the pope, while 37% disagreed.

The poll, conducted by the Democracy Institute, comes as the president had a very public feud with Pope Leo XIV in response to the pontiff’s criticism of the war in Iran and appeals for peace.

And David Gilmour (MEDIAITE) notes:

A Catholic bishop who runs the Diocese of Palm Beach in Florida, which encompasses President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, issued a public rebuke of the president’s ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV on Sunday.

Bishop Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, recently appointed to lead the diocese, delivered the criticism during Sunday Mass by displaying a statement onto a giant screen during the service.

“The Diocese of Palm Beach stands firm with our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, and strongly rejects the disrespectful and violent attacks that Donald J. Trump has directed against the Holy Father,” it read, according to an image shared online.

It continued: “These attacks also constitute a grave violation of the religious freedom enshrined in the Constitution of the United States and, as such, harm the rights of the American Catholic faithful.”

Rodríguez concluded the message with a call to the congregation: “Please pray for the safety of the Holy Father.”

Traditionally, that's the response. By that I mean, historically, as opinion settles, it settles along those lines. Right now, it's still being formed. But historically, as a flock has time to absorb an event and form an opinion -- not a quick take, not a hot take, an actual opinion -- it tends to be along the lines of what Father Rodriguez expressed.

And, remember, there was also the image he posted of himself as Jesus Christ healing people (he later insisted he thought he was a doctor in the image). Fernando Alba (THE MIRROR) notes:

A new Democracy Institute-The Mirror US poll found that most Christian Republicans didn't buy Trump's defense of the AI image, which stoked backlash from prominent MAGA figures. The poll found 57% of Christians surveyed didn't believe the president when he said the image actually showed him as a Red Cross doctor.

Chump's participating in a week long marathon of BIBLE reading -- he's already recorded his portion -- and appears to think that will even things up. I don't imagine many devout believers will feel that qualfies as enough.

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Cracks begin forming over the AI image. About 50% of respondents say the social media post was wrong while 46% indicated it was a non-issue. Catholics disapproved of the post the most at 57%, and protestants found the least problems with it at 53%.

Patrick Basham, founding Director of the Democracy Institute and former adjunct scholar and senior fellow of the Cato Institute, said the poll appears to show that Trump has lost his "Midas touch."

As gas prices continue to soar, Donald has a different claim every other week. Aaron Blake (CNN) provides a walk through:

President Donald Trump on Monday directly contradicted Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s comments just a day earlier about how long gas prices could linger. While Wright had told CNN that we might not see gas under $3 per gallon until 2027, Trump called him “totally wrong.”

Days before, Trump contradicted his own words on the very same subject. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has contributed to some inconsistent messaging here, too.

In other words: It’s a mess. The Trump administration doesn’t seem to have taken any care to drive a consistent message that wouldn’t ultimately come back to bite it in the backside. And the situation reinforces how Trump and his team seemed to anticipate a much shorter war or at least underestimated how much damage Iran could cause to the global oil supply.

Let’s recap.

On March 8, about a week into the war, Wright told CNN’s Jake Tapper that gas would be back under $3 per gallon “before too long.” When pressed on how long, he indicated it was just weeks away.

“In the worst case, this is a weeks, this is not a months thing,” Wright said.

Wright then told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that there was a “very good chance” this would happen by the summer.

But as the weeks rolled on and the Strait of Hormuz remained closed, Wright’s prediction was proven false. More than seven weeks into the war, gas remains around $4 per gallon, according to Gas Buddy.

By April 12, reality seemed to set in. Fox News aired an interview in which Trump said gas and oil prices might not even drop at all before the November midterm elections.

“It could be [lower], or the same, or maybe a little bit higher, but it should be around the same,” Trump told Maria Bartiromo.

But when Trump spoke with Bartiromo just days later for her Fox Business Network show, his tone shifted dramatically.

He said that “gasoline is coming down very soon and very big.”

“I think they’ll be much lower before midterm,” he added. “Much lower.”

All of Chump's statements regarding the Iran War -- even on gas prices -- change repeatedly.

Meanwhile, Donald Chump's Big Beautiful Give Away to The Epstein Class is allowing them to pay less taxes while the average person, if they are lucky, are getting a few dollars more in this year's tax refund. Due to inflation under Chump, that money's not even going to register. Jordan Major (FINANCEBUZZ MONEY) notes what we all saw coming:

Tax refunds are landing in bank accounts across the country, but for many Americans, that extra cash may not go as far as expected.

Gas prices have surged in recent weeks, cutting into household budgets just as refunds are arriving. As of April 9, the national average price for gasoline has climbed to $4.16 per gallon, marking the first time in four years that prices have crossed the $4 threshold.

[. . .]

The impact of higher gas prices adds up faster than many people expect. A driver using about 15 gallons per week would now spend roughly $62 per fill-up at the national average. Just weeks ago, that same fill-up cost closer to $45.

The increase comes to about $17 per week, or nearly $70 per month. Over the course of a year, that adds up to more than $800 in additional fuel costs for a typical driver. A $3,600 tax refund could see a large portion absorbed by higher gas expenses alone.

In other news, another Cabinet member has been fired by Chump.

Rebecca Davis O’Brien (NEW YORK TIMES) notes,

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s embattled labor secretary, stepped down on Monday as multiple scandals and investigations closed in on her.

“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” Steven Cheung, a White House spokesman, posted on social media. He said Keith Sonderling, the deputy secretary of labor, would serve as acting secretary.

Pressure on Ms. Chavez-DeRemer had mounted in recent weeks, as investigators and congressional leaders homed in on questions about her conduct in office, and that of her aides and members of her family.

The Labor Department’s inspector general’s office is nearing the end of a monthslong investigation into a whistle-blower’s allegations of professional misconduct by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and her closest aides. The claims include that she was having an affair with a member of her security team and used department resources for personal trips. Ms. Chavez-DeRemer was expected to be interviewed in the matter in the coming days.

Tori Otten (THE NEW REPUBLIC) continues:

Her husband was banned from Labor Department grounds after he allegedly assaulted two female staffers.

The writing may have been on the wall for Chavez-DeRemer. After unceremoniously firing ex-Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump was apparently on the warpath against his own Cabinet. An administration official anonymously told Politico at the start of the month that Trump was “very angry” with his advisers and was looking to move some of them around or even axe them entirely.

Chavez-DeRemer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were at risk of losing their jobs “imminently,” three anonymous sources told Politico at the time.

They addressed Chavez-DeRemer's departure today on MORNING JOE.

In other news, Chump's massive ego wants a new structure in DC dedicated to him. AnnaMarie Houlis (MONEYWISE) reports:

Three Vietnam War veterans and an architectural historian are suing Donald Trump, according to 9News (1). They argue that his plans to build a 250-foot "triumphal arch" near the Arlington National Cemetery's main entrance lacks congressional approval, violates federal law, and would be disrespectful of those buried there.

If erected, the triumphal arch — inspired by Arc de Triomphe in Paris — would be the largest in the world. And critics worry that the sheer size of it alone would dominate the landscape, leaving nearby landmarks like the Lincoln Memorial — and our veterans — in its shadows.

"What has happened here is that the president has decided that he can just unilaterally go ahead and erect this monument," Wendy Liu, who represents the veterans who feel personal ties to the cemetery, told 9News. "The thought of being buried in the shadow of what they have described as a vainglorious arch is profoundly disrespectful."

Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:

Hegseth has made deep cuts in funding, personnel for civilian harm mitigation programs

More than 1,700 civilian deaths, strikes on more than 30 schools, health care facilities since the start of President Trump’s illegal war in Iran

Text of Letter (PDF)

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) led nine senators in opening a new investigation into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s role in weakening civilian harm prevention programs and the catastrophic civilian impacts of President Trump’s war in Iran.

“The high human toll of this war reflects the administration's broader disregard for the strategic, legal, and moral imperative to minimize civilian harm,” wrote the lawmakers. ”We call on the administration to immediately end the war in Iran and fully restore Congressionally authorized programs and staffing to mitigate civilian harm.”

Since the start of President Trump’s illegal war in Iran, attacks on civilian infrastructure have led to more than 1,700 civilian deaths, along with strikes on more than 20 schools and a dozen health care facilities.

“We are concerned that these were all preventable tragedies…This is a concerning pattern and raises questions about whether the administration is upholding international law and the laws of war,” wrote the senators. The Senators called on DoD to answer questions about reported attacks on two separate elementary schools in Iran that killed more than 170 people, most of them children.

Prior to the war, Secretary Hegseth made deep cuts to the military’s civilian harm mitigation and response (CHMR) programs, fired personnel at DoD’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, and slashed CHMR staff at the U.S. combatant commands “by more than 90 percent.” All the cuts were reportedly made over the objections of veterans organizations and top military officials, including admirals, generals, and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“We are also concerned that your leadership is further harming the credibility of our armed forces, exacerbating threats to civilians and U.S. servicemembers alike,” wrote the senators.

Secretary Hegseth has mocked “stupid rules of engagement” and threatened to offer “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies” in Iran, which would violate international law and the military’s own Law of War Manual.

“These statements not only harm civilians and undermine established standards, but also endanger U.S. servicemembers with greater risk of reciprocation and erode good order and discipline,” warned the senators.

Senior military officials in the Trump administration agree that mitigating civilian harm is vital for national security. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby wrote to Congress that, “it is in the U.S. national interest, as well as morally right, to seek to reduce civilian harm to the degree possible.” During his confirmation, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine said that combatant commanders who incorporated CHMR personnel into planning “see positive impacts from the program.”

“Your attempts to gut DoD’s civilian harm institutions contradicts more than a decade of bipartisan consensus and DoD-led reforms, initiated during the first Trump administration,” noted the senators.

“The importance of protecting civilian life to the greatest extent possible is central to effective military operations and differentiates the United States from our adversaries…We call on the administration to immediately end the war in Iran, fully restore Congressionally authorized programs and staffing to mitigate civilian harm,” concluded the senators.

The lawmakers asked Hegseth to explain the cuts to civilian harm programs and explain what steps the Pentagon is taking to protect civilian lives in Iran by May 4, 2026.

Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined in signing the letter.

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Monday, April 20, 2026

He'll have what he's already been having

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

KA$H PATEL DOES NOT DRINK! TAKE THAT, THE ATLANTIC!

FBI DIRECTOR KA$H PATEL SUMMONED THESE REPORTERS TO HIS OFFICE AT THE RONALD REAGAN BUILDING AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTER TO IMPLORE US TO PRINT THE TRUTH. HE'S SUING THE ATLANTIC FOR NOT PRINTING THE TRUTH, SUING THEM FOR $250 MILLION DOLLARS!

"I DON'T DRINK!" HE INSISTED, WIPING SWEAT FROM HIS FURROWED BROW. SHAKING HIS HEAD, HE WALKED OVER TO A COUNTERTOP WHERE HE GRABBED A PITCHER OF ICE WATER AND POURED HIMSELF A CUP. "NEVER! I DON'T DRINK ANYTHING!"

GUZZLING DOWN A GLASS OF WATER, KA$H PAUSED, LOOKED AT HIS GLASS AND THEN AT US.

"WELL . . ." HE SAID SLOWLY, "I DRINK WATER. EVERYONE DRINKS WATER."

SHAKING HIS HEAD, HE WENT TO HIS MINI-FRIDGE AND PULLED OUT A DIET COKE BEFORE SITTING BACK IN HIS CHAIR, POPPING THE CAN OPEN AND TAKING A DEEP SWIG.

NODDING TO HIMSELF, HE WHISPERED, "I GOT THIS."

THEN HE LOOKED AT THE CAN OF DIET COKE IN HIS HAND AND THEN BACK AT US.

"OKAY, OKAY," HE SAID FIRMLY, "I DRINK DIET COKE. BUT EVERYONE DRINKS DIET COKE."

HE POURED HIS DIET COKE INTO HIS NOW EMPTY WATER GLASS.

"PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN TELL CRAZY LIES ALL THE TIME," HE SAID OPENING A DRAWER OF HIS DESK.

HE PULLED OUT A BOTTLE OF REMY MARTIN AND POPPED THE TOP OFF IT BEFORE POURING A HEALTH SPLASH INTO HIS FORMER WATER GLASS.

DOWNING THE CONTENTS IN ONE GULP, HE SAT THE NOW EMPTY GLASS DOWN ON HIS DESK AND WIPED HIS MOUTH WITH HIS SHIRT SLEEVE.

LOOKING UP AT US, HIS EYES DARTED AROUND THE ROOM THEN OVER TO THE BOTTLE OF REMY MARTIN.

"A LITTLE COKE AND COGNAC," HE SHRUGGED. "EVERYBODY DRINKS A LITTLE COKE AND COGNAC. I CAN TAKE IT OR I CAN LEAVE IT."

HIS EYES DARTED AROUND THE ROOM AGAIN AND THEN HE LEANED IN AND ASKED, "ANYBODY GOT ANY BLOW?"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

The only thing more messed up than Chump may be his administration. Friday, THE ATLANTIC published Sarah Fitzpatrick's "The FBI Director Is MIA: Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences." Jen Psaki spoke with Fitzpatrick about her exclusive Friday night on MS NOW.

Fitzpatrick's report opens:

On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”

Patel oversees an agency that employs roughly 38,000 people, including many who are trained to investigate and verify information that can be presented under oath in a court of law. News of his emotional outburst ricocheted through the bureau, prompting chatter among officials and, in some corners of the building, expressions of relief. The White House fielded calls from the bureau and from members of Congress asking who was now in charge of the FBI.

It turned out that the answer was still Patel. He had not been fired. The access problem, two people familiar with the matter said, appears to have been a technical error, and it was quickly resolved. “It was all ultimately bullshit,” one FBI official told me.

But Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy.

Rhian Lubin and Josh Marcus (INDEPENDENT) note:

The Atlantic report, published Friday evening, claimed that Patel is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication at clubs in Washington, D.C. and his home city of Las Vegas, violating FBI conduct standards and potentially leaving the nation’s top law enforcement official vulnerable to coercion or exploitation.

The director’s drinking reportedly angered President Donald Trump, who is famously sober, and whose brother died from alcoholism-related health issues. Trump called Patel after the director was seen chugging beer with members of the victorious U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team to express his displeasure, according to the report.

Sources told The Atlantic that Patel’s alleged conduct at the helm of the FBI has alarmed officials about what would happen if the bureau was needed in a national crisis, such as a terror attack.

Michael Luciano (MEDIAITE) adds:

Friday’s Atlantic story also stated that Patel has drunk “to the point of obvious intoxication” in public, often at Ned’s in Washington, D.C., and at the Poodle Room in Las Vegas, where he lives. On occasion, the FBI has even reportedly had to reschedule meetings “as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights, six current and former officials and others familiar with Patel’s schedule” told The Atlantic.

In some cases, the director’s FBI security detail had difficulty waking him because he was so drunk. In one incident, the FBI had to use “breaching equipment” of the sort SWAT teams use:

On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by 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.

The report mentions Patel’s appearance in the U.S. men’s hockey team locker room after its win over Canada in the Olympic gold medal game in Italy. Patel was captured on camera chugging a beer. The scene reportedly prompted Trump to let Patel know he was unhappy with the director’s behavior.

Ka$h Patel. It's a long list of potential fires Chump's considering -- there's Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and Ka$h are just a few of the names. That's what happens when you nominate unqualified people to posts. In most cases, they are not able to handle the job. And that means that they're always in danger of being fired.

Ka$h has misused government funds and resources on his girlfriend and on his hobby as a hockey nut and he's done a very poor job as FBI director -- one screw up after another, always quick to run to the press with self-congratulations only to have the 'we've done it!' explode in his face.

Bongino's gone, Bondi's gone. Ka$h is the last big name in his department and he could be next.

He gets so drunk apparently, per what Fitzpatrick told Jen Psaki, that the FBI had to force open his front door one morning when they couldn't reach him by phone and he wasn't answering his door. He apparently got blotto drunk and was passed out and unable to awaken on his own.

This is who's running the FBI?

Ewan Gleadow (RAW STORY) reports:

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took to Bluesky and suggested an exclusive from The Atlantic would be enough to see Patel removed from his post. He wrote, "Stooge Patel getting sloshed at the 'Poodle Room' in Vegas? You simply cannot make this up!! Too good. Start the clock."

Former Trump administration staffer Olivia Troye, who is running for a Democratic Party House seat nomination in Virginia, added, "Remember when I warned this would happen if Kash Patel became FBI Director? I said he was unfit. He threatened to sue me. Now he is the Director—and it’s happening."

Patel has exhibited erratic behavior, including unexplained absences and what witnesses described as "bouts of excessive drinking" that have alarmed FBI staff, according to Sarah Fitzpatrick's investigation in The Atlantic.

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