BREAKING: Next top Trump official to get FIRED

Some bad news on the horizon for one. particularly embattled Trump. administration official who may very. well be joining the ranks of Kristi. Noem, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi: fired. According to Politico, quote, "Speculation ramped up this week over. which ranking administration chief will. go next after Pentagon head Pete. Hoekstra ousted his Navy Secretary with. President Donald Trump's blessing. Now, a top White House official tells Dana. Bash that Patel is likely the next. cabinet-level official to go. Quote, 'It's only a matter of time,' the. official who was granted anonymity to. discuss the sensitive matter said of the.

FBI director. 'There are several. reasons,' the official said, 'but top. among them is the number of negative. stories centered on the FBI director is, quote, "not a good look for a cabinet. secretary and Trump is fed up with the. level of distraction." I mean, could. there be anything more Trumpian? Kash is. a guy who spent years being one of. Trump's most loyal attack dogs. He wrote. the Nunes memo. He went on every podcast. and Fox News hit he could find to torch. the FBI from the outside, called. Christopher Wray corrupt, called the. bureau weaponized. He did everything.

Trump asked of him. And now, after all. of that, the reward for this guy's blind. loyalty is a White House official. leaking to Politico that he's about to. get tossed under the bus. But, here's the thing. Kash Patel. scandals are entirely of his own making. So, let's start, for example, with the. jets because this one is legitimately. too perfect. Before Kash Patel became. FBI director, he went on Glenn Beck's. podcast and blasted then director. Christopher Wray for his, and I'm. quoting Patel directly here, "private. jet travel that he pays for with.

taxpayer dollars to hop around the. country." Here's that quote. "Here, and. I'm not saying take all their funding. I'm not the defund everything guy. I'm just saying Chris Wray doesn't need. a government-funded G5 jet to go to. vacation. Maybe we ground that plane. 15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought. >> minimum Uh just a thought. That was Kash. Patel in 2024. Now, here's Kash Patel in. 2025 and 2026 flying a $60 million. government Gulfstream to Pennsylvania to. watch his girlfriend sing the national.

anthem at a wrestling event, fly to. Nashville, four round trips in a single. month, flying with friends to Scotland. for a golf trip, flying to the Olympics. in Italy where he was caught on camera. chugging beer in the US men's hockey. team locker room while there was an. active cartel crisis breaking out in. Mexico. And this one is my personal. favorite, when reporters started. tracking his flights using publicly. available data, Kash Patel reportedly. became so furious that he fired a. 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw the. Bureau's aviation operations. And when.

pressed to defend all of this, here's. what Kash Patel said. And if I was. actually abusing it, I would go see. every one of her shows. I think I get to. like 15%. Just to clarify, how often has. he traveled to see you since January. 20th? Gosh, um. I think like Nashville, I've been in. Nashville like. >> Yeah, I've been at her house a couple. times with her family for the holidays. and you know, birthdays. Um, I've seen. her perform. this year, I think three times.

>> Yeah. Good news, everyone. Patel is only. abusing it like 15% of the time, so he. could totally abuse it more. That is a. real defense the FBI director offered to. the American public. It's the political. equivalent of saying, "I only robbed the. bank for a few hundred thousand bucks. I. could have stolen millions.". Unless you think the jet stuff is the. whole story, the Atlantic published a. deeply reported piece based on. interviews with two dozen sources. alleging excessive drinking and. unexplained absences on the job. The New.

York Times followed up by talking to 25. people who described Patel as running a. rudderless ship, someone who was in over. his head and more concerned with his own. image than with actually leading the. Bureau. Former FBI officials described a. pattern of decisions made first with. everybody else left scrambling to figure. out how to implement them afterwards. A. congressional report had agents. describing him as regularly MIA. He. reportedly told FBI field offices in one. of his first meetings, quote, "If you. have golf, hockey, fishing, or hunting, you're going to see a lot of me." Fun.

Very cool thing to say when you're. supposed to be running the nation's. premier law enforcement agency. So, look, it is beyond clear that Kash Patel. is a hot mess and in way over his head. and aggressively unqualified for this. role. But, this impending firing goes. beyond just Kash Patel. This is the deal. that Trump offers everyone who enters. his orbit. He will use you for exactly. as long as you're useful to him, and the. moment you become a liability, the. moment the headlines get bad, the moment. that you become a distraction, you are.

done. It doesn't matter how loyal you. were, doesn't matter how many times you. went on TV for him, doesn't matter how. many enemies you made on his behalf, or. how thoroughly you hollowed out an. institution in deference to him. The. second you cost him more than you're. worth, you are gone. And we have seen. this movie before with Michael Cohen, Jeff Sessions, Rex Tillerson, Mike. Pence, Mark Milley, Bill Barr, Marjorie. Taylor Greene. The list goes on and on. These are people who, in many cases, gave Trump everything. And every single. one of them ended up discarded the.

moment they were no longer convenient. So, to anybody in Trump world currently. watching their back, yeah, you should. be. Because the lesson of the Trump. administration is not that loyalty is. rewarded, it's that loyalty is consumed. Kash Patel spent years burning down the. credibility of the FBI for this man, and. if the reporting is correct, his reward. is a political leak saying that he's. next one out the door. And look, I won't pretend that it's not. exactly what Kash Patel deserves because. it is, but I do want you to remember it. the next time someone tells you that.

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and use the code BTC at checkout for 15%. off. I'm joined by State Senator Louise. Lucas in Virginia. Senator Lucas, thank. you so much for joining me. You were a. huge, huge, huge player in the Virginia. redistricting situation that just went. down a few days ago. So, first off, congratulations. In light of the big win. in Virginia, what is your message to. other Democrats right now across the. country given the success that you've. had? Well, I'll tell you one thing. When I. was in a junior high school and the.

bullies would approach me because they. were bigger, they swing, I'd punch back. You cannot. allow the bullies to to beat you down. And so, what I would say is that people. like it when. they have their legislators to go out. and fight for them. That's why they got. elected in the first place. And so, when. we cower down, we lose. When we fight back, we win. And so, what. I would say to Democrats is now is our. moment to win because we're in the best. posture to take back the Congress, and I. will be spending every waking hour.

trying to make sure that we do that. We. we need some more foot We need some more. boots on the ground, and so, I'm asking. Democrats, join me in the fight. If you. don't want to be on the front line, stand behind me, but because I'm forging. I'm going forward. You know, there are. some Democrats who look at the situation. regarding redrawing these maps, like for. example, Bill Ferguson, the state Senate. president in Maryland, who view this as. kind of a race to the bottom. And so, you know, the the way that I look at. that is, okay, you can you can choose to. practice good governance till you're.

blue in the face, it'll eventually. render you into obscurity. And so, what. is your Exactly. >> the Bill Fergusons of the world who view. this who view engaging in this fight who. view fighting fire with fire as as, you. know, um kind of just a a scourge on the. whole political process. Well, I'll tell you this, we know. history is watching us. And who wants to. be written as one of those people who. stood on the sideline and said, "Let. things happen." when they were right. there and could have gotten involved and. made a difference. And I say to Bill. Ferguson and anybody else out there.

who's in elective office, shame on you. if you don't seize this moment to try to. save our democracy because there are too. many things that we stand to lose. I. mean, with this administration, they're. trying to turn back the hands of time on. all of the progress that we've made, and. just shame on them if they don't join. this fight. Do you think that Democrats. are starting to recognize that the. posture here cannot be blind deference. to good governance, that it has to be. fighting with fire fighting fire with. fire? Absolutely.

I absolutely And look, let me just say. this. I am as much in favor as non-part. in in non-partisan redistricting as. anybody else. But we're at a point where. we have got to save our democracy. All. we're trying to do is keep Donald Trump. from having this power grab that's going. to render all of the power in the. Congress to him unchecked. Because the. members of Congress on the Republican. side, they have no heart, they have no. soul, they have have no interest in.

trying to do what is in the best. interest of our American people. And so, it's going to take us having to do this. a temporary kind of a situation to make. sure that we fight back with fire. Exactly. What do you say to those. Republicans who were conspicuously. silent when Donald Trump told Greg. Abbott that he was entitled to five. seats in Texas? Didn't say a word then, but are now clutching their pearls when. it comes to California and Virginia? Shame on them because they knew they.

were wrong when it was all going down. And that is what's so disgusting about. all of this. I mean, those guys have. been there long enough to know that once. Trump started to take power away from. them, that there was no end to it. I. mean, they up you know, people all over. the country, even Republicans are saying. they're damn worthless. And so, who. wants somebody to say that about you. when they elect when you you have. constituents who elected you to fight. for them. But you know what? They are. the most do-nothing Congress we've ever. had in the history of this of this.

nation. How does the impending issues of There's. two things that are coming down the pike. right now. There's the Cale case at the. Supreme Court, which will be the gutting. of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. That could mean one, two, maybe even. three dozen seats eliminated. Um, and. there's also uh the census in 2030, which will see a bunch of blue states um. relinquish electoral votes to a bunch of. historically red states. How do those. two things kind of inform um.

your thought process as it relates to. fighting back right now and trying to to. go on the offensive in advance of those. things happening? I think I might have said this to. somebody else before. If we don't do. something now, there will be a. continuing erosion of our ability to. stop this train. We are in a position to. make sure that it does not happen. And. you know, I I want history to write me. as being one who was down in the. trenches, making sure that I did my.

part. And I think everybody has an. inescapable responsibility to make sure. that we keep America strong, that we. keep our reputation, and that we remain. uh the place to come to. Do you want to see nationwide. independent redistricting legislation? Yes, I do. And they had the members of. Congress had an opportunity opportunity. to make that difference. And if they. had, we wouldn't be in a position that. we're in now. Yeah, I I I I completely agree. In fact,

the irony of all of that is that we have. seen. we have seen instances where Democrats. have introduced legislation to ban. partisan gerrymandering nationwide. In. fact, they did it in 2021 with the. Freedom to Vote Act. Every Democrat. voted in favor of it. There wasn't a. single Republican who voted for it. And. so now to watch these Republicans have. fainting spells over the prospect of. Democrats actually returning a punch is. rich given the fact that when they had. the chance to eliminate the scourge of. gerrymandering, they all balked at it. That part right there. And I am so.

extremely. disgusted with the Republican members of. Congress because is what what's good for. the goose is not good for the gander? Well, that's not the way it is from. where I came. I am a product of the civil rights. movement. And even though I may not get. physical, I am going to fight back. Do you Have you heard from other. Democrats? Like I I I have the the. pleasure of following you on Twitter.

And for everybody who's watching and. listening right now, if you do not. follow Senator Lucas on Twitter, I could. not recommend a better follower a better. follow. I told this to you when we were. first logging on off off camera, but. there is no there is no bigger badass. than you. And I mean that in the nicest. way humanly possible. It is exactly the. fight mentality that I wish so many. Democrats. kind of kind of. imbued here. And so have you heard from.

from other folks in the party. with regard to to how. your social media presence, which which. you know, I think I think speaks for. itself. How your social media presence. has maybe inspired other people to be a. little bit more authentic, a little bit. more aggressive. Well, I thank you for that question. because yes, I have. But not just from. Democrats here in the Commonwealth, but. from Democrats all across the country. It's amazing. And what I say to them is. that you have got to demonstrate to your. constituents that you're willing to take.

on this fight. And what better way to do. that than to go on social media? I mean. because you can't just do it by sending. out postcards and the old old school way. of kind of doing it. So you know, I go. to social media and then of course you. know, I don't have any filters. So I. just say it like it is. And what I've. learned is that that's exactly what the. public wants. They want to know that. you're willing to get in there and slug. it out. And that's who I am. That's what. I do. Well, I think that's that's so. important because you know, I think something that's lost in our. leadership is is actually leading,

right? And it feels like politicians or. Washington are the last to get on the. train. Like you have people on social. media who have been begging and pleading. for Democrats to fight for as long as I. can remember because we are historically. the party of strongly worded letters. And and so, you know, to. to to see you actually take this step. and and to have been such an outspoken. advocate for for this stuff, I think is. refreshing because it's usually like the. it feels like the last people that get.

on get on board with everything are. always the leaders, the people who. should be first. And so, I I use that as. a lead-in to ask this question, which is. now that you've been successful in. Virginia, what's next on the docket? What is the. next fight that that you know, if it. needs to turn into a knockout. brawl, that you're going to be there, you know, willing to do that? Well, I tell you what, I'm willing to go. anywhere in the country to help. Democrats, prop them up, do whatever we. have to do to make sure they understand.

there is a freedom in fighting. I I'm. telling you, I feel so I mean, I'm just. energized to go out and do even more. And I'm just hoping that others will. follow my lead and say, "What have we to lose? We have. We can lose our democracy.". >> Yeah. I I on on a. >> And that is too important for me to not. be as fully engaged in the fight as I. can. On that point, do you to what. degree are you concerned about the the.

speed with which civil rights, voting. rights, election integrity is eroding. under this administration? An. administration that seems to have given. up on on governing or being held. accountable by by by their own voters, and instead has just thrown their lot. 100% in on this idea of okay, we're not. going to try to make our case to the. voters, we're just going to engineer. victories wherever we can by by rigging. elections, by. um. >> By rigging elections. >> Yeah.

Well, that you know, then then you know. what you have that helps frame what I. want to say because I am a product of. the civil rights movement. I grew up in. the city during massive resistance. I. have had quite for everything all of my. life. So, there's nothing new about what. I'm doing now. And I refuse to sit on. the sidelines. and see our progress be rolled back. And. so, if ever there was a moment when. people need to get off off the sideline. and get involved in this fight, that.

time is now. I've not seen anything as. egregious as this since the '60s. Since. the '60s. You know, a lot of people who watch and. listen weren't around then. Um and and. some folks who were around then, you. know, uh uh. don't have the same perspective as as as. you do. And so, you know, coming from. someone who has seen this before, um. speaking to people who haven't, how's. Can you talk about the fight that we're. in right now from people who maybe just. assume because they've not lived it that.

everything will be okay? Well, what I want to say to them is that. if they don't think this is going to. affect them, their children, and their. children's children, all they've got to do is keep breathing. I've lived through it before, and just. to see this is almost like cyclical. And. here we go again. Yeah. And so, because. I've seen it before, I refuse to live. through it again and have my children. and my grandchildren have to inherit. something similar to what I grew up with.

back in the '50s and the '60s. No, I. can't do that. People need to understand. this is critical. This is our moment to. make a difference, and people need to. get involved. Last question. >> Please get involved. Last question here. What gives you hope in this moment? Waking up every morning knowing that. I've got to get into this fight for my. children and my grandchildren, and the. fact that more young people are getting. involved. That's what gives me hope, because if you go on my social media. platforms, you will see there's a huge. following of young people. And they are. beginning to get more and more involved. As a matter of fact, I I was asked to.

speak at the uh Young Democrats uh state. convention, and I I. so amazed so amazed at how they. gravitated to me because they too. they too are looking for somebody who. will fight. And my age didn't make a. difference to them and all of this gray. hair, doesn't matter. They want somebody who's in the ring. fighting for them. And I tell you what, I can go with the boxing gloves on or. take the boxing gloves off and go bare. knuckles with it anyway. I'm out there. fighting for my constituents. And I. could not be. >> I'm fighting for the Commonwealth and.

I'm fighting for America. I could not be. grateful more grateful to have you in. this fight. I know I speak on behalf of. everybody who follows you in saying. thank you for your voice in this moment. It's an honor to speak to you. Congratulations on the win in Virginia. Again, I don't believe it would have. happened without you. So, so thank you so much for for that work. and for taking the time today. Thank you for having me on. I do. appreciate it so much. To listen to the. audio version of this episode, click the. link right here on the screen and please. make sure to subscribe. And of course, to see more video content, that.

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