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.
