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FBI Director Kash Patel responds to report about alleged frequent drinking, absences #shorts 99%
4/22/2026, 3:30:37 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 29 faulty reasoning types, including Red Herring, Overconfidence Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 39.4% saturation with 139 hits. Analysis detected 1,312 faulty-reasoning hits from 353 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 99% (202 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.80% of the video peer group.
I do want to give you an opportunity to respond directly to the allegations in the Atlantic article, that your unexplained absences created a national security risk.
And beyond that, can you say definitively that you have not been intoxicated or absent during your tenure as FBI director?
>> I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia.
And as when they get louder, it just means I'm doing my job.
This FBI director has been on the job twice as many days as every director before me.
What that means is I've taken half as many days off as those before me.
What that means is I've taken a third less vacation than those before me.
What that means is that this FBI with this Department of Justice has dropped the murder rate 20 points.
What that means is this FBI with this Department of Justice has captured eight of the top 10 most wanted fugitives in the world.
twice as many as the Biden administration did in its entire four years.
What that means is this FBI has seized enough fentinel off the streets to kill 178 million Americans, a 31% increase.
What that means is this FBI and this DOJ has arrested 43% more spies in 14 months than the entirety of the Biden administration.
What that means is this FBI has seen a reduction in opioid overdose deaths up to 20% alone.
What that means is that we have found 6,300 child victims.
6,300 families have their kids back.
That is a 22% increase from the Biden administration.
I'm on the job. I'm the first one in. I'm the last one out.
I'm like an everyday American who loves his country, loves the sport of hockey, and champions, my friends, when they raise a gold medal and invite me in to celebrate.
I've never been intoxicated on the job. And that is why we file a $250 million defamation lawsuit.
And any one of you that wants to participate, bring it on.
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