Breaking News from Pod Save America - WATCH: Trump Official CAUGHT Chugging Beer on Taxpayer Dollars in VIRAL Video

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

FBI Director Kash Patel is facing backlash after video of him chugging beer with the U.S. Olympic hockey team on a government-funded trip goes VIRAL. Critics argue it’s inappropriate while major crises loom. Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau break down the latest Trump scandal. CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR: ZBIOTICS - http://zbiotics.com/CROOKEDNEWS CODE: CROOKEDNEWS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You talking to me? Kayak, got that right. All right, John, this past weekend is President Trump Plandy. regime change war in Iran. American tourists sheltered in place to escape cartel violence in Mexico and the FBI announced it would be investigating the shooting of another intruder at Mar-a-Lago. FBI director Cash Patel was living his best life in Italy. Okay. So can you imagine you are on the men's hockey team? You win the gold for the first time since 1980 and you go celebrate in the locker room and then you're like, the fuck is this guy doing?

fucking the lame dork. Why is he wearing my jersey? We have to have this guy here. So that's Patel chugging beers with the U.S. men's hockey team after their incredible overtime win over Canada in the gold medal game. Great game. Patel's trip to Italy leaked a few weeks ago or a few days ago. His lackeys tried to suggest that he was there for official business to think he said he had security meetings, something with the ambassador or something. Timing is just coincidence, right? You can always find an official fucking meeting anywhere. Anywhere. If you're a government official. One meeting. So his flack actually attacked the media. First, suggesting that the visit to Italy might be about the Olympics happening now or the hockey game.

So on Saturday, FBI spokesman Ben Williamson tweeted at MSNOW, quote, your rag outlet wrote that he went to hang out at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime, even when provided information that your theory was false, then he did not respond to when MSNOW asked to follow up a question when that video that we just watched was posted. John, does the media owe Cash Patel an apology for suggesting that, you know, there wasn't urgent FBI business to be done in hand. Why do we all hate America so much? Yeah, why do we hate America?

Cash Patel loves America. That's why he's celebrating that America won the gold. And by criticizing Cash Patel, we must not love America. It's absurd. It's not the first time he's done something like this. There were the wrestling matches with his girlfriend, whatever, hunting. There was a hunting in Texas. We'll get to all this.

Okay. Sorry, sorry. We'll walk through all of these. So, yeah, so he's, you know, it's not the first time. It costs taxpayers $75,000. The meetings are bullshit. He didn't need to go to any of those meetings. meetings. Of course, you know, I saw some people on the right being like, well, White House officials always go to these to these games.

Administration officials always go to these games. Like, yeah, JD Vance went because J.D. Vance doesn't have a real job. No one needs him to do anything but just like smile and get booed at the fucking opening ceremony. There's always an official delegation. Yeah. It goes to the Olympics to represent the United States. The FBI director doesn't just hop on his jet and head over to watch the game. That is not a thing that happens. You're supposed to have a serious job. We're supposed to be a serious person. Yeah. Secretary of State, Vice President. Like people who. Who, you know, whose job it is. People with the connection to the Olympics. Yeah.

Yeah. Patel tweeted, for the very concerned media, yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted gold medal winners on Team USA invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys. Greatest country on earth and greatest sport on earth. Fist emoji hockey hockey motion. American flag emoji. This is fucking FBI director.

So to your point on the cost, the FBI director is required by law to travel on a Gulfstream G550 jet for security reasons and to have. just to gas that thing up and to do maintenance. It costs five, six, maybe 10 grand an hour. We don't really know. Italy is about a 16 to 18 hour flight round trip from DC. On top of that, you have all the staffing, you have the accommodations, the security costs. He is, he is tiny though, so maybe you can like save a few bucks there. Yeah. I just want someone in Congress to subpoena the cost of this like little make a wish vacation all in because my guess is it's half a millie to maybe a million I just want to note it's also like to your point earlier so cash Patel when he was just you know

a hack on the campaign for supporting Donald Trump had a lot to say about FBI directors misusing resources let's watch that you said you wanted to ground Chris Ray's private jet travel that he pays for with taxpayer dollars to hop around the country I'm not to defund everything guy I'm just saying Chris Ray doesn't need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacation maybe maybe we ground that plane, 15,000 every time it takes off. An FBI plane flew round trip from D.C. to Las Vegas, and you attended a UFC flight with Mill Gibson, and I'll show you that. Is that you, and is that true? Yeah, you want to do the difference? I live in Las Vegas. I'm allowed to go home. Then on April 5th, you attended a hockey

game in New York City. You don't live there, right? No, I don't. And on April 12th, on the following weekend, you attended a UFC flight, a fight in Miami, also on the FBI jet, right? That's correct. The resources of the FBI, which are funded by the American taxpayer dollars, in the seven minutes that you and I have been talking about, two people have died from fentanyl overdoses, one person has been shot to death in this country, and three people have been raped.

The resources of the FBI will go to that mission set and that mission set alone, because America deserves a better brand of justice, and I'm going to give it to them. Fantastic. I mean, I think the resources are well spent. Yeah, in the time you were gone, pal, fucking Mexico blew up.

And also there was maybe an attempted assassin potentially, like lurking around Mara Lago that the FBI killed. I don't know. Maybe he was burning Epstein files as he traveled over there. Don't believe Savannah's mom has been found. That's going on. There's a lot going on with the Epstein file. There's a few other things, few other things for cash to do. Just to total up some of the controversy.

So he went to the hockey game with Wayne Gretke, I'm sorry, in New York City. He went to a UFC flight with Mel Gibson, anti-Semite crazy person. He went to the UFC fight in Miami. When Charlie Kirk was killed, remember Cash Patel was at a fancy restaurant in New York. He was tweeting out disinformation about the case. Cash, this is what you were mentioning earlier. He literally went on a weekend vacation at a place called the Boondoggle Ranch. That's right.

That's what it was called. Owned by a big Republican donor named Bubba. Over the summer, he took a government jet to Scotland. A golf trip for a golf weekend with the boys. He flew to Nashville a bunch of times because his girlfriend lives. there. She's a singer. He goes on more guys' weekends trips than we do. We're podcasters. One of them was a trip to Penn State to watch his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a low-rent wrestling match. And like the impunity is the thing that's like so galling. Posted photos of it.

Because it's not like, oh, caught hypocrisy. It's when you know that it's this obvious, it's really just, like the first couple times, maybe it's a lapse in judgment. Doing it now after all these, stories after everything that we've talked about on this. Like, it's just to fuck you to the public. To fuck you to fuck you. Yeah, to fuck you the way he's spending our dollars. And also, he just doesn't take the job seriously. Pod Save America Breaking News is brought to you by Zbiotics pre-alcohol.

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Remember to head to Zbiotics.com slash crooked news and use the code crooked news at checkout for 15% off. So all of that context is why I woke up and was triggered through the stratus here this morning when I read political playbook because they wrote the following, quote, how much trouble is Cash Patel in over his beer chugging, fist pumping, table slamming, jaunt to the men's Olympic hockey final in Milan less than you might think. That's end, end quote. Now, in fairness, they mentioned the previous controversies.

They linked to them. they took through them. But then they just stated that Trump won't care because he seemed happy when Patel called Trump and then kind of put him on speaker and patched him in with the players. And I think Patel also said like, oh, Trump said Patel can help you guys come to D.C. If you want to go to the state of the union, some bullshit. But like, obviously Trump is happy to talk to the men's hockey players when they just won. But probably get an white house operator to patch that through. Yeah, you could get anyone to do it. But like, yeah, you get some of the state department. But like, look, Trump cares about two things. One.

the stock market into bad headlines. Like, this will likely create some bad headlines. Here's one example from our friend Laura Ingramham of Fox News about the previous coverage of the girlfriend flights. And the Democrats are also, Mr. Director, supposedly going to investigate your use of the FBI jet because they're claiming you've commandeered it for personal joy rides, going to a wrestling event, I guess, for your girlfriend.

It's simple. The FBI director, all FBI directors are required users of the FBI plane. They don't let me fly commercially. But my predecessors wasted millions of dollars because they were too lazy to drive an extra 20 minutes and go to Andrews Air Force Base. They use D.C. Reagan National as their personal hub costing the taxpayer $4 million.

I shut that policy off and mandated the use of government airfields. I've also used the airplane less than my prior to predecessors. And yes, I'm entitled to a personal life just like my other agency had counterparts with their partners. So do I support my girlfriend? Absolutely. And do I take trips with her? Absolutely. So Christine Ome and Corey Lewandowski have a private fuck cabin in the back of their government-funded jet that's supposed to be used for deportations.

737. Cash is flying to the Olympics to drink beers with the team. Who else? Pam Bondi's melting down in front of Congress. I realize that the whole theme of the second Trump administration is he's not going to fire anyone because that's bad headlines and it shows weakness. But at some point, like none of the cabinet secretaries are making him look. better. In fact, all of them are making him look worse. Absolutely. And the thing that annoyed me so much about the Cash Patel stuff is Laura Ingrid, like, that's what counts for tough coverage from her.

Like, she was very skeptical. She was like, look, if a Democrat did this, I'd be drilling you, but what's your response? And then kind of like looked at him skeptically. But Cash Patel's biggest critic isn't like annoying libs like us. It is a former FBI official named Kyle Serafin who goes on Info Wars all the time, who's been destroying him. I looked at his Twitter last night. He had like five million views on a tweet attacking cash about going to this game. And they also like MAGA also a lot of them hate cash because they think he is covering up the Epstein files because he is. Some of this has gotten ugly. Like a bunch of them have been calling his girlfriend in Israeli Honeypot. The theory seems to be that she's attractive and he is ugly. Therefore it must be.

It's not the worst theory. But his girlfriend is suing a bunch of right wingerers who said this, which like inflamed them more. And then Candace Owens like, was responded to all this, she said, Cash Patel has to step down. This is excruciatingly embarrassing. He's a teenager in love representing the federal government. Like, they think he's a fucking clown. It's about right.

I mean, I saw, I'm sure you saw this because this probably triggered even more of all people. Hugh Hewitt tweeted. He was like, I don't think the libs understand what this image of the FBI director celebrating with the USA hockey team, what it really means to people. And it's just like, it's like, Man, like, you know what? I think we don't understand. What Hugh doesn't understand is like how much it's broken through.

Like, and it's not just like the right wing fever swamps either. Like I had my college buddy text chain, they were who like don't pay super close to attention to politics. They're like, what was Cash Patel doing at the Olympics? Because everyone saw this and anyone who knows who he is. They're like, what the fuck is he doing? There's the F. People know that it's not like, again, J.D. Vance, who I don't like very much.

If he was there, that's one thing or the second or Rubio or whatever. but no one thinks the FBI director should be there. No. It's a really serious job. It's a really serious job. In the past, there have been examples of FBI directors like during the Clinton administration who got fired for misusing government resources like this, right? So there's the spending portion of it that is just so egregious and so in your face.

And by the way, Hugh Hewitt is an idiot. If a butt plug could morph into a human being and be perfectly tailored to fit in Donald Trump's asshole, it would look like Hugh Hewitt, right? He does look like a butt plug. Thank you. So setting that aside, it's a really, really serious job. FBI director, like, you are up at 4 a.m. You're getting the PDB at 430. You are like really worried about horrifying threats from terrorism. You were trying to bust crime rings. Like, you're not fucking chugging booze in Milan after a 20 hour trip. Which is why like all these FBI officials have been leaking all this. Because inside the bureau, they fucking hate him. Yeah, and yeah, that's the other thing. It's like we're not even talking about. He's manifestly unqualified for the job. Usually this person's like a career law enforcement official. Someone has been a prosecutor someone who worked in the agency. He's a fucking clown. Also, do you remember,

you know who Salt Bay is? No. Salt Bay is this goober who owns a bunch of restaurants. And the schick at his restaurant as he goes like this with the salt. You ever seen this guy do this? Now it's, oh, so he's got like a pull, B-A-E. And he's got like a ponytail pull-back, right? And one of its restaurants, I think you can buy a $1,500 steak that's been covered in like gold the saran wrap basically. It's a gold plate steak. So Salt Bay crashed. the World Cup's final celebration in 2022. Here's an image of that. You can see Lionel Messi's face who's like,

who the fuck is this guy? Right? Like, Cash Medell can tell himself that those hockey players are his friends. As you said, they don't want him there. They're wondering what he's doing there. He's just a weird goober and jerseys. What percentage do you think knew who he was?

Very, very few. Half of them were probably thinking, like, maybe this guy can get me out of a traffic ticket. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, for sure. If I was on that hockey team, I would be nice to be a guy director. Yeah.

Only we are stupid enough to cussie. No, no, I would. Yeah, exactly. Very, very nice to me. Anyway, I'm triggered through the absolute moon. But thank you for watching this episode of Pot Save America here on YouTube. Please subscribe to Pot Save America on YouTube because unlike political playbook, we're actually trying to cover these guys in a way that they deserve with some intensity, with some criticism, with some depth.

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