{"id":228004,"date":"2026-05-25T04:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=228004"},"modified":"2026-05-25T04:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:54:43","slug":"kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=228004","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel denies excessive drinking allegations as \u2018total farce\u2019 in Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI director also dismisses allegations of unexplained absences as Democrats challenge him over Atlantic reportUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesEmbattled FBI director Kash Patel has denied under oath recent allegations of excessive drinking and unexplained absences on the job, dismissing them as \u201cbaseless\u201d during a fiery congressional hearing.Democrats challenged him over the \u201cextremely alarming\u201d reports&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/kash-patel-congressional-hearing\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI director also dismisses allegations of unexplained absences as Democrats challenge him over Atlantic reportUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228004-kash-patel-denies-excessive-drinking-allegations-as-total-farce-in-senate-hearing.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}