FBI Director Kash Patel left podcast bro Joe Rogan virtually speechless as he casually revealed that his house had been swatted.
“What?” asked a stunned Rogan. “The head of the FBI gets swatted?”
“These people play, it’s the ultimate hypocrisy. They have two sets of rules: One against you, and one for them,” Patel said, having just lit a cigar, during an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience published Friday.
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Patel did not specify who he meant by “these people,” but instead stoked fears that broader corrupt actors in the government were attempting to snuff out his “mission” to “put out the truth.”
Patel added that he was committed to “congressional oversight” as he used most of the interview to stir the same claims of government corruption and “bad actors” outlined in his 2024 book, Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy—which Rogan plugged. Patel also backed up President Donald Trump’s allegations that he was being spied on as part of an investigation into Russian election interference.
Patel alleged that former FBI director Andrew McCabe and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as privy to the scheme, and he claimed they lied to cover it up. However, Patel claimed that he “caught” them because they were “arrogant” enough to “write everything down.”
“Why would they write everything down?” Rogan asked.
“They are so arrogant. They think, ‘No one is gonna catch us. I’m going to write everything down. We are gonna put it in a vault, and no one is gonna find it,’” claimed Patel. “Well, you know what? I found the vault.”
Patel claimed they had committed “illegal activity” by pushing a “disinformation campaign.”
Patel cryptically added with a grin, “And now I’m going to work.”
The Daily Beast has contacted both McCabe and Rosenstein for comment.
Rogan, taking Patel’s word that crimes had been committed, asked, “Is there a statute of limitations on these crimes?”
Patel said “generally” there is a five-year statute of limitations on what are known as “process” crimes.
“But if you can tie them to an overarching conspiracy, there is no statute of limitations,” claimed Patel. “So if there was more egregious conduct that no one knew about before that we are just finding, then we will have to relook at it.”
Yet Patel promised, “The one thing we will do is put out all that information to the American public.”
He added, “And if we can work with our partners at the DOJ to come up with a prosecution, that will be their decision.”
The Daily Beast has contacted Patel for further comment.
