{"id":73425,"date":"2026-05-12T18:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:57:25","slug":"kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel denies excessive drinking allegations as \u2018total farce\u2019 in Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI director also dismisses allegations of unexplained absences as Democrats challenge him over Atlantic report<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/12\/donald-trump-china-iran-redistricting-jeffrey-epstein-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Embattled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> director Kash Patel has denied under oath recent allegations of excessive drinking and unexplained absences on the job, dismissing them as \u201cbaseless\u201d during a fiery congressional hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats challenged him over the \u201cextremely alarming\u201d reports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences\/686839\/\">first reported<\/a> in the Atlantic mid-April, which they argued would a mount to a \u201cgross dereliction\u201d of duty. The FBI director has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/20\/kash-patel-lawsuit-the-atlantic\">sued the magazine<\/a>, and the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences\/686839\/\">a story it published<\/a>, filing a defamation lawsuit in US district court for the District of Columbia that seeks $250m in damages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/kash-patel-congressional-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI director also dismisses allegations of unexplained absences as Democrats challenge him over Atlantic report US politics live \u2013 latest updates Embattled FBI director Kash Patel has denied under oath recent allegations of excessive drinking and unexplained absences on the job, dismissing them as \u201cbaseless\u201d during a fiery congressional hearing. Democrats challenged him over the &#8230; <a title=\"Kash Patel denies excessive drinking allegations as \u2018total farce\u2019 in Senate hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kash Patel denies excessive drinking allegations as \u2018total farce\u2019 in Senate hearing\">Read more<\/a><\/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-73425","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\/73425","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=73425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}