Trump Officials Are 'Openly Discussing' Kash Patel's Replacement as FBI Director: Report [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Apr 17th, 2026, 9:06 pm


The Atlantic reporter who broke a wild story about FBI Director Kash Patel said senior officials in the Trump administration are “openly discussing” his successor.

On Friday, the publication ran a piece by Sarah Fitzpatrick, who reported that last week, Patel believed he had been fired by President Donald Trump after he was locked out of an FBI computer system:

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.”

It turned out the lockout was due to a technical issue, according to two people familiar with the matter. The report also alleges that Patel has been intoxicated in public on multiple occasions, and said the director’s security detail has had difficulty waking him at times because he was too drunk. In one incident, the security detail reportedly needed SWAT team “breaching equipment” to enter his room.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-officials-are-openly-discussing-kash-patels-replacement-as-fbi-director-report/

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Link to The Atlantic article (gift) - The FBI Director Is MIA