FBI Director Kash Patel threw cold water on a claim that he allegedly refused to disembark from the bureau’s plane after landing in Utah, the day after the assassination of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk , without an official raid jacket.

During an appearance on Fox News late Tuesday, Patel responded to the accusation detailed in an explosive report , published by the New York Post’s Miranda Devine earlier this week, which show him and his deputy director, Dan Bongino , in hot water among an alliance of retired and active-duty special agents and analysts.

The 115-page report, released Sunday, offers a “pulse check” on the first six months of the FBI under President Donald Trump’s administration, with 24 sources expressing low confidence in agency leadership, a hist

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