FBI Director Kash Patel ridiculed a Dem congressman who mocked him for allegedly refusing to disembark from a airplane in Utah the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination till he was given a raid jacket after which ended up sporting a girls’s one.
With out confirming or denying the alleged incident, Patel fired again Monday at Rep. Eric Swalwell of California for making enjoyable of him and identified the congressman’s previous interactions with a suspected Chinese language spy.
“I used to be in search of a Youth Giant… Home terrorism arrests are UP 30% this yr — spectacular, contemplating I spent zero days relationship a Chinese language spy named Fang Fang, the place ought to I ship your girls’s medium for date evening?” Patel fired again at Swalwell on X.
Swalwell, some of the well-known congressional thorns in President Trump’s facet, had previous ties to Fang Fang, often known as Christine Fang, who’s suspected of getting been a Chinese language spy.
She participated in fundraising for Swalwell in 2014, however he reduce off ties together with her the subsequent yr after being briefed about considerations of Chinese language infiltration, in accordance with Axios.
The Golden State Democrat had publicly mocked Patel over a report by a nationwide alliance of retired and active-duty FBI particular brokers and analysts. The Put up solely broke the information of that 115-page report earlier this week.
On Sept. 11, 2025, FBI particular brokers on the Salt Lake Metropolis area workplace “needed to cease and ask round to seek out an FBI raid jacket — a medium-sized one — that will match,” in accordance with the report.
The FBI director “wouldn’t disembark from the airplane with out an FBI raid jacket.”
Ultimately, they bought him a jacket that belonged to a feminine agent, although Patel allegedly whined that “two areas on the higher sleeves didn’t have Velcro patches connected.”
Members of the FBI SWAT Staff needed to take away patches from their uniforms and provides them to Patel to placed on the loaner raid jacket, the report mentioned.
The report cited ALPHA 99, who was described as a “extremely revered” supply that spent a number of a long time within the FBI, for the anecdote on the raid jacket.
“I don’t thoughts that FBI Director Kash Patel needed to put on a girls’s (measurement medium) jacket to cosplay as somebody in cost,” Swalwell posted snarkily on X on Monday, reacting to the report.
“I simply want he’d give attention to stopping the rampant home terrorism occurring on his watch.”
Patel additionally reamed out FBI brokers working the case on Kirk’s assassination over perceived blunders and took credit score for investigative progress by different law-enforcement companies, the report mentioned.
General, he was described as “in over his head,” and his deputy, Dan Bongino, was ripped as “one thing of a clown” within the report, which characterised the FBI as a “rudderless ship” and “all f–ked up” beneath their management.
The beautiful report was launched days after Trump and the White Home hit again at a media story and rumors that Patel is on his means out as FBI director.
Patel has largely been mum on the blistering report, whereas Bongino has hit again at The Put up’s reporting and defended the pair’s management.
“Nameless sources from the Wray-Comey period FBI are desperately making an attempt to derail our reforms,” Bongino contended Monday in an X put up that Patel shared.
“We’re not turning again. Kash and I are laser-focused on protecting the Homeland protected, and on crushing violent crime. We’ve despatched the homicide fee to a historic low, and we’ve doubled the quantity of violent crime arrests from prior years.”
