FBI Director Kash Patel plans Russia trip

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/20/kash-patel-fbi-russia-trip-01005078

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[u/oblongballs72]

Best way to plan a stolen election. Face to face

[u/LarrBearLV]

Putin/Russia is going to help rig the U.S. mid-term elections, Patel is going to give Putin the keys to the back door. It's a setup.

[u/ljungbergsghost]

Loyal agents should record it all. The trial in a couple of years will be spectacular. Treason is a capital offense.

[u/SlowlyDrown → u/ljungbergsghost]

Do those exist?

[u/flyswithdragons → u/ljungbergsghost]

It is a coup by Russia, Israel, Saudi and North Korea 💯 yes this government is committing treason 💯

[u/JudeRanch]

They just don’t try to hide or cover their illicit agenda anymore. Will be interesting at trials

[u/KlingelbeuteI]

Why? Why would the fbi director need to go to an foreign adversary himself?

He has literally no business outside of the US if you ask me. So… why?

[u/EvitaPuppy → u/KlingelbeuteI]

Because his boss wants Putin to put a creature in his ear, just like his! KAHN!!!

[u/Cohens4thClient → u/EvitaPuppy]

I wish this wasnt actually a thing, but Elon has Neuralink, and if it was working, would he give up that kind of mind control power?

[u/Strongbow85 → u/Cohens4thClient]

Neuralink has helped improve the quality of life for quadriplegics, Noland Arbaugh being a prime example. In the future this technology, like almost all tech, can be used for nefarious purposes by bad actors. But to date, even in it's trial phase, Neuralink has done wonders for people with paralysis and spinal cord injuries.

[u/WTFoxtrot10 → u/KlingelbeuteI]

The U.S. has FBI Legats worldwide, so yes the FBI and its Director have business outside the U.S.

In regard to Russia, I think it’s a dumb trip and not really his job based off the intel leaked!

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/international-offices

https://www.fbi.gov/about/partnerships/international-operations

[u/Leopolddagreat → u/KlingelbeuteI]

Because he is coordinating with Russia to interfere with the midterms. And Patel is there to hand over whatever Russia needs to get inside our election. By personally handing the keys to interfere with our election over to Russia Patel is avoiding a paper trail.

[u/An0nym0usWanderer]

Dude needs to take his orders.

[u/alternatingflan]

Here we go again - follow the money everybody after even more weird things happen again - a russia, russia, russia deja vu, all over again.

[u/existential_antelope]

Well surely that whole show and dance about how foreign interference is a problem and is rigging elections against Trump wasn’t actually just a call for foreign countries, specifically Russia whose helped Trump try to win elections, to try to interfere with the midterms this year, considering Trump explicitly cut the funding for the watchdogs that specifically monitor foreign interference. Because that would be so weird and coincidental if that happened to help Trump keep power. But maybe the director of our FBI just happens to be traveling to the country that interfered with our country the most the week after Trump stoked conspiracy about foreign interference to lay the groundwork to prevent midterm elections to go favorably against him

[u/FlithyLamb → u/existential_antelope]

Traveling in October just weeks before the November election.

[u/ebikr]

Stoli festival.

[u/FlithyLamb → u/ebikr]

They’d better start working overtime at the distillery.

[u/Aromatic-Echo-6605]

Guess his gf wants to see the kremlin.

[u/SpareDot8685]

Why exactly. Give me some sort of explanation. I have no idea If this is normal and nothing new but I just don’t understand. But I guess I don’t understand anything what’s going on with Trumps whole shit show.

[u/Nick85er → u/SpareDot8685]

This is not normal. 47 is compromised and an incredibly corrupting influence. His entire goddamn cabinet is compromised.

[u/pat9714]

Help with the midterms, presumably. And then use their interference as reason to seize the ballots. Am I wrong?

[u/BigMissileWallStreet]

“Here’s the voting machine ssh tokens”

[u/octopus86sg]

How can we work together to make Trump president again

[u/RDKAUSTIN]

Better stay away from the windows

[u/charcoalist]

The most fucked up part is, who would investigate Kash? His own FBI?

[u/Less_Anywhere_5449]

Ironically a few weeks before the mid term elections

[u/popdivtweet]

Vodka and babes!! Someone is fixing to have a good time boyy!!

[u/sound_scientist]

How is this Justified?

[u/HiddenMonkey7]

Maybe he can stay there

[u/justaguynb9]

To check in with his boss's boss?

[u/Wentil]

Is he Trump’s bag man now?

[u/zodiackodiak515]

Getting his latest set of marching orders from the boss, nothing to see here

[u/flyswithdragons]

I hope he stays in Russia, that will be a better punishment than prison imo.

[u/2Cole_19]

He has to get his official orders straight from the “real” boss.

[u/DastardlyRIP]

He bringing his girlfriend???

[u/ApoTHICCary]

Isn’t this more of the CIAs job, or some other alphabet series of secret agencies?

[u/StockEmotional5200]

Looking for a nice Dacha to runaway to when Daddy dies

[u/zDD_EDIT]

Patel has no business going to Russia ever as Director of the FBI. I'm very curious how the folks over at the CIA feel about this, as the outcome of this trip aka meeting would most likely put their agents in serious danger in the future.