Ben Williamson, assistant director for public affairs at the FBI and spinner for its ludicrous director Kash Patel, was apoplectic at the weekend when a journalist speculated his boss might be on a jolly to the Winter Olympics to watch his nation’s ice hockey heroes.
“Will he be at the hockey game tomorrow?,” wrote Ken Dilanian, justice and intelligence correspondent at MSNOW after the Bureau made clear that its chief was in Italy for vital meetings and not to watch the Olympics.
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It provoked an angry response from Williamson, enraged at the suggestion his boss might be off to watch the icy bash-up at taxpayers’ expense. “Your rag outlet wrote that he went to hang out at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime – even when provided information that your theory was false,” he fumed. “When you’re ready to correct that let me know. Won’t hold my breath.”
Fortunately, Williamson didn’t have to hold his breath very long. For the very next day, the USA men’s team beat Canada to take the gold medal – and who was that celebrating in the locker room with them but… Kash Patel!
“Unity, Sacrifice, Attitude – what it takes to be the best in the world,” gushed Patel in a post on X shared by the man who just 24 hours earlier was insisting he wasn’t there. “These men live and breathe it. Now Team USA are gold medal champions, legends standing on the shoulders of giants.” At one point in the video, the FBI director drinks a beer and bangs on a table, before forward Matthew Tkachuk drapes his gold medal around him and the group loudly sings Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue by Toby Keith. It all rather looked like a man hanging out at the Olympics!
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