Kash Patel struck back after a defamatory article in The Atlantic accused him of inappropriate conduct as a civil servant.
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The director of the FBI in the Donald Trump administration, Kash Patel, filed a lawsuit against the left-wing magazine The Atlantic on Monday for defamation and seeks 250 million dollars in the form of compensation.
Patel had already announced that he would sue the left-wing publication on Sunday morning, when asked about a recent article that stated that the director had alarmed his colleagues at the agency with “episodes of excessive alcohol consumption and unexplained absences”.
“We have to fight against fake news. It's one of the many things that President Trump is so successful and leads at,” Patel said on Maria Bartiromo's show, which airs on Fox News, Sunday morning. “I will not tolerate their attacks on me, because they are indirect attacks on the men and women of the FBI whom we have rehabilitated,” he added.
Trump's FBI director sued The Atlantic for defamation and seeks $250 million in compensation
The details of the lawsuit
"If the fake news mafia wants, you know, to blow its drum as loud as it can, it will never stop me from fulfilling the mission that President Trump assigned to me, which is to protect the United States. And we're doing better than ever,” the government official added.
The 19-page lawsuit drafted by Patel's legal team was filed in the District Court of Washington DC. It names the author of the article, the opposition journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick, as the defendant.
Patel's lawsuit states that it is intended to hold the defendants, in particular Fitzpatrick, “to account for a defamatory, malicious and generalized article”.
The Atlantic published the article openly defaming Patel last Friday under the title "Kash Patel's erratic behavior could cost him his job”.
Trump's FBI director sued The Atlantic for defamation and seeks $250 million in compensation
