Kash Patel's high-flying habits roil Trump's circle as new posh hunting trip revealed [View all]

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The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night on Patel's trips using the FBI's jet, noting the plane itself has made dozens of trips since Patel became director. In that time, Patel has "drawn flak from his bosses" in the DOJ and from his "underlings" at the FBI, according to the report.


Patel hit the news for taking an FBI plane to attend a wrestling event where his girlfriend, a country western singer, performed, and then to her home in Nashville. A former FBI agent, Kyle Seraphin, publicized the trip and called the taxpayer funded travel in the middle of a shutdown 'pathetic," the Journal noted.

That was in late October. A day after he arrived in State College, Pennsylvania, to attend the wrestling event, he traveled to Nashville. The report then unveiled a previously undisclosed trip Patel made — a stop in San Angelo, Texas, at a hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch.

The private ranch, which bills itself as a "scenic hunting resort," is owned by the family of a Republican donor and friend of Patel’s, C.R. “Bubba” Saulsbury Jr. The plane remained in town from Sunday until Wednesday during the government shutdown.