Patel already displayed his incompetence early on many times like when he kept tweeting out information during ongoing investigations. But then he did
this:
> A top FBI official with 27 years standing has reportedly been fired by the bureau after its director, Kash Patel, became enraged by press stories revealing he had used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match.
>Steven Palmer, who had worked at the bureau since 1998, was fired as head of the FBI’s critical incident response group which is responsible for handling major security threats as well as overseeing the agency’s fleet of jets. He was the third head of the unit to be dismissed since Patel became the second Trump administration’s FBI director in February.
> Bloomberg Law, which broke the story, said that three unnamed sources had expressed astonishment at the sacking
given that Patel’s flight schedules were fully public and trackable on websites.
He's an idiot.
Between him and Hegseth and RFK jr. this administration is staffed by the dumbest most incompetent people imaginable. Here's a fun word to describe the situation, kakistocracy, a country governed by imbeciles.