FBI Director Kash Patel called “Russiagate” the “most extensive political criminal scheme” of the FBI and the intelligence community, coordinated with the media

10:04 08.06.2025 •

FBI Director Kash Patel

The bureau director Patel says that surveillance of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign began with a warrant based on FBI leaks in an article by Mother Jones and Yahoo News, reports ‘The Global USA News’.

According to Patel, key figures Peter Strzok, Andy McCabe, and James Comey organized the leaks so that they could then use the articles as “evidence” in the warrant application, portraying Trump as a “Russian agent”:

“This is the most extensive political crime scheme ever carried out by part of the FBI leadership and other members of the intelligence community in coordination with the media. And all of this could have been investigated… But here’s the thing. What people don’t know about Russiagate, if they haven’t been following it, is that the warrant that originally started the FISA surveillance of the Trump campaign as a whole was based on FBI leaks to the media.

The two articles referenced in that warrant were the result of leaks from the same FBI leadership: Peter Strzok, Andy McCabe, James Comey, and others. And then the application said, “Look, it’s not just us saying Trump is a Russian agent. Here’s an article, Mr. FISA Federal Court Judge.” And they included that in the application. So it was a coordinated conspiracy to eliminate a political opponent using the state apparatus as a weapon.

Russiagate is a scandal in the United States involving allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Also 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.

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.”

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.

FBI Director Kash Patel announces his house was swatted yesterday:

“As Director of the FBI of responsibility, I'm not just gonna bring a case because somebody hurt me. They did. And they continue to do it. Shit. My house just got swatted yesterday.”

“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.”

 

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