As emails show Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included “VIP snorkel” at the Pearl Harbor memorial, two things stand out:
- There are some folks at the FBI who are clearly eager to humiliate this guy
- The revelations are entirely unsurprising given everything we know about him
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/patel-snorkel-hawaii-emails-pearl-harbor
Steve Benen
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