It’s a New Week, So Time for a New ‘Kash Patel Is Fired' Hit - This MS NOW Effort Is Among the Lamest Yet

It has, in fact, been some time since we last had a claim in the media that FBI Director Kash Patel is about to be canned by President Trump. (Damn you, Graham Platner, and your Nazi rape distractions!!) Well, the team at MS NOW is here to remedy that oversight… and we do mean “team.” We’ll show that in a moment.

So the story, reported late on Friday, was that Director Patel was set to jet out to Chicago to attend a series of meetings and see his country-singer girlfriend perform at night, but he was hastily called into the White House for an unscheduled visit. As it is explained, this was due to “top administration officials frustrated with Patel,” who then “summoned him to the White House.”

There are two reasons to regard this scathing expose as a pure comedy script. First, this is said to be the result of how MS NOW has been hounding Patel, and his intemperate reactions to its reporting on social media. In one such post, he responded to a report by Ken Dilanian last week about profligate expenses Patel is racking up as director.

Nah, my jet ski is gold plated….dumbass.

Your job is to lie. Mine is to protect the American people, and business is good! pic.twitter.com/iAX2dX3ocT
— Kash Patel (@Kash_Patel) July 10, 2026

The other aspect to induce chortles is that we get the expected reliance on nothing but anonymous sourcing to generate this ironclad detail of his demise. Recall the “blistering” account we had delivered by The Atlantic of Patel’s alleged alcoholism, which supposedly is creating embarrassment and episodes like blacking out in his office, yet has not generated anything like official reports or witnesses on the record? This neutered hit piece follows that same template.

Behold this lineup of officials and inside contacts supposedly bearing witness to Patel’s rendering in the administration: people spoke on the condition of anonymity / according to two people with knowledge / several people said / some found it confounding / according to a person familiar / others cited / according to three people briefed / according to two other people with knowledge…

And it continues from there. Certainly, there is some overlap in the revelations, but who can tell?! Seriously, I did not get halfway through this slog before I had a callback to Jason Robards in “All The President’s Men,” when he barks at Woodward and Bernstein about all of their contacts being too meek to make an official statement.

The Atlantic’s Kash Patel Hit Piece Is Backfiring - Badly

And things only became more inept from there. In the course of declaring Patel is on the rocks – and crafting this narrative based on comments made by who-the-hell-knows?! – we are delivered a sentence that blasts the entire enterprise into confetti:

The precise reasons that Patel’s political bosses demanded he cancel his trip and report to the West Wing are unclear.

This wholly disqualifying detail is followed by the desperate use of “but,” and more anonymous claims being relied upon. So these impotent journalists admit to not having the facts on their side, yet they still ran the hysterical claims.

Also, note the use of the plural there — “journalistS.” It took no less than FIVE reporters to craft this empty article — Ken Dilanian, Carole Leonnig, Jacqueline Alemany, Vaughn Hillard, and Jake Traylor. Yet that clutch of newshounds was incapable of sniffing out the actual details, and all were incapable of getting a single name to deliver an official quote. And, as usual, those who do lend their names and go on the record were denying their claims fully. These officials are given little more than an obligatory paragraph.

And we are not yet done with the ineptitude. Despite a team employed to go after the “facts” and the piece being updated late in the day on Friday, somehow none of these intrepid investigators could ferret out that Patel had been in the White House for the majority of that day and had been brought in for a specific task.

The New York Times was not only able to come up with the purpose, but it also detailed what Kash was working on – the intel leak regarding the use of the new Air Force One during President Trump’s recent NATO trip.

Here is what the 5-person team from @MS NOW was incapable of learning about Patel's WH visit.

Might be time to come up with better anonymous sources than the usual gang of bitter cranks inside the agency and the administration. https://t.co/2tKfkTRWb6 pic.twitter.com/5xDnaoNzjb
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) July 14, 2026

One might suspect, given the battalion of contacts within the administration and the Agency, that someone on the inside would have been hip to Patel’s work and why he was spending the bulk of the day in the White House. If the man was set to be fired, it would not constitute an 8-hour workday, even if an exit interview was conducted. This is a case of an overdose of wishcasting, and it is laughable that five reporters could not manage to approach the facts.

This is the result of a Patel obsession seen from this outlet. Dilanian and Leonnig have been particularly focused on bringing down the director, and they have routinely been strung up by their failure to deliver sound and substantive reports. It is enough to make you question how the network attaches “intelligence” to their job titles.

Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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