‘I never listen to the fake news mafia’: Kash Patel and Todd Blanche lose it with reporters over FBI director allegations ^80.3%

The Independent - By Alex Woodward - 4/21/2026, 11:07 PM

Negativity Bias 22.7% - Overconfidence Bias 19.9% - Ad Hominem 16.3%

FBI director Kash Patel and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche have lambasted reporters who pressed the nation’s top law enforcement officials about Patel’s alleged behavior at the bureau in their first public remarks following bombshell reporting in The Atlantic. “I never listen to the fake news mafia,” Patel said during a Tuesday... more