Kash Patel's Days Look Numbered As Senate Democrats Warn An Investigation Is Coming

After a bombshell report that alleged FBI Director Kash Patel is engaging in erratic behavior and drinking heavily, Senate Democrats sent a loud signal that an investigation is coming.

Over the weekend, The Atlantic reported that FBI Director Kash Patel is allegedly worried about his job, behaving erratically, and drinking heavily:

Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy. He has good reasons to think so—including some having to do with what witnesses described to me as bouts of excessive drinking. My colleague Ashley Parker and I reported earlier this month that Patel was among the officials expected to be fired after Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ouster, on April 2.

“We’re all just waiting for the word” that Patel is officially out of the top job, an FBI official told me this week, and a former official told my colleague Jonathan Lemire that Patel was “rightly paranoid.” Senior members of the Trump administration are already discussing who might replace him, according to an administration official and two people close to the White House who were familiar …