{"id":72233,"date":"2026-04-20T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-for-250-million-over-article-alleging-excessive-drinking\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:56:19","slug":"fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-for-250-million-over-article-alleging-excessive-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-for-250-million-over-article-alleging-excessive-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Kash Patel sues for $250 million over article alleging excessive drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic after a report citing anonymous sources alleged excessive drinking and erratic behavior that could jeopardize his role. Patel blasted the article for \u201cfalse and obviously fabricated allegations,\u201d while The Atlantic says it stands by its reporting. NBC News\u2019 Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic after a report citing anonymous sources alleged excessive drinking and erratic behavior that could jeopardize his role. Patel blasted the article for \u201cfalse and obviously fabricated allegations,\u201d while The Atlantic says it stands by its reporting. NBC News\u2019 Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}