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BumRushDaShow

(162,593 posts)
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:50 AM 18 hrs ago

Keystone Kash Fires FBI Veteran Over $60M Jet Date Debacle

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Nov. 2 2025 3:16AM EST
Published Nov. 2 2025 1:56AM EDT


The FBI has reportedly fired an official who had been at the bureau for 27 years, after stories of Kash Patel using an FBI jet to go on a date broke on Wednesday. Steven Palmer, who joined the bureau in 1998, was deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) and charged with overseeing its aviation units. His exit was made official on Friday, making him the third CIRG boss to be fired during Patel’s brief tenure, Bloomberg reported.

According to three people familiar with the situation who spoke to Bloomberg, Patel was outraged by articles and social media posts that highlighted his private jet use. The articles and posts proliferated after a self-styled FBI whistleblower drew attention to his flight logs.

“We’re in the middle of government shutdown where they’re not even gonna pay all of the employees that work for the agency that this guy heads. And this guy is jetting off to hang out with his girlfriend in Nashville on our dime?” Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI agent said on his podcast. “He flew a $60 million aircraft to go hang out there. Is that gross to anybody else?”

Publicly available data for Patel’s plane shows the plane landing near Penn State on Oct. 25 before flying to Nashville later that evening. A now-deleted photo posted to Instagram by Patel’s girlfriend, country musician Alexis Wilkins, shows the couple attending a Real American Freestyle event at Penn State that evening.



Alexis Wilkins / Instagram

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-patel-fires-fbi-veteran-over-60m-jet-date-debacle/

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Keystone Kash Fires FBI Veteran Over $60M Jet Date Debacle (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago OP
There are no words... Hugin 17 hrs ago #1
Corruption starts at the top, and Trump is the most corrupt president in our history. Lonestarblue 16 hrs ago #2
Scumbag. kacekwl 15 hrs ago #3
KA$H is not bothered by his theft from the American people of @ least 150 k for his use of the FBI's new Botany 15 hrs ago #4
And it took Germany around 4 decades to recover...... groundloop 5 hrs ago #10
I'm afraid that no matter how bad they do and no matter how unpopular Trump will be the Republicans ... Botany 5 hrs ago #11
Kashyap... GB_RN 14 hrs ago #5
Patel is like his bosses, just another POS. republianmushroom 14 hrs ago #6
There they are mercuryblues 13 hrs ago #7
I wonder why Kash Patel is getting such bad press? FakeNoose 13 hrs ago #8
Rotting from the head down pfitz59 12 hrs ago #9

Hugin

(37,048 posts)
1. There are no words...
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 10:22 AM
17 hrs ago

Patel is by far the most incompetent in a constellation of incompetence.

He needs to be clear that there are hundreds of nations and organizations who can muster thousands of assets to know exactly where the director of the FBI is and it is a constant. Many of those take great delight in making anything American, “look bad.”

Secondly, dating a person who derives their livelihood in the public as a performer makes it easier for these trackers. Because a performer advertises their itinerary to draw an audience. All they need to do is follow them knowing eventually the fool will show up.

Firing a 27 year veteran only makes American weaker and not so great.

Lonestarblue

(13,069 posts)
2. Corruption starts at the top, and Trump is the most corrupt president in our history.
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 10:55 AM
16 hrs ago

His minions are simply following his lead. MAGA doesn’t care about the moral and financial corruption because Trump is hurting the people they hate—minorities, women, and LGBTQ+.

Tear down the whole White House? Fine, it’s just an old building.

Party at taxpayer expense? Fine. Presidents like Trump deserve a lit of time off.

Extort the leaders of other countries with bullying and threats? Fine. We don’t need any friends.

Deport every undocumented person and all their children who are US citizens? Fine. They aren’t real citizens because they aren’t white. We trust Trump to decide who can be a citizen and who cannot.

Conduct Trump Org. business from the White House? Fine. It’s okay that Trump has made over $2 billion in shady deals since becoming president again.

I believe there is literally nothing that Trump could do that would cause Republicans to call him out or offer resistance, and I include the possibility of gutting the White House and turning it into a gold-plated bordello.

Botany

(75,735 posts)
4. KA$H is not bothered by his theft from the American people of @ least 150 k for his use of the FBI's new
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 12:05 PM
15 hrs ago

Gulf Stream jet but that people found out about it and that is what KA$H is mad about.

This is something out of Herman Goerring’s play book when he stole millions and millions of
dollars worth of art, real estate, wine, food, and so on.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220764891

groundloop

(13,398 posts)
10. And it took Germany around 4 decades to recover......
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 09:39 PM
5 hrs ago

I'm convinced that unless something drastic happens very soon that we're witnessing the downfall of America before our very eyes. And just like Germany before us I'm afraid that it will take many decades to get back to some sort of normalcy. I definitely won't live to see it, and sadly my children might not either.

Botany

(75,735 posts)
11. I'm afraid that no matter how bad they do and no matter how unpopular Trump will be the Republicans ...
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 09:49 PM
5 hrs ago

… now own the voting mechanisms and the elections already done.

GB_RN

(3,457 posts)
5. Kashyap...
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 12:30 PM
14 hrs ago

Should be in jail. Seriously, fuck this corrupt piece of shit.

The next Democratic administration’s DOJ will need to do a better job than a certain, former federal judge and AG. 😡

FakeNoose

(39,232 posts)
8. I wonder why Kash Patel is getting such bad press?
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 01:57 PM
13 hrs ago

It can't possibly be due to his ineptness, corruption and stupidity. Oh no!
It must be the FBI press relations employees' fault. Let's fire them all.

pfitz59

(12,021 posts)
9. Rotting from the head down
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 03:21 PM
12 hrs ago

Trump and ALL his appointees are misusing government assets. There will be an accounting.

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