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Whoopi Goldberg floated a bizarre theory during Monday's broadcast of
"The View" on ABC, suggesting that FBI Director Kash Patel had been
sent to Italy to watch Team USA's first Olympic hockey gold medal in 46
years because the rank and file wanted him out of the way.

Goldberg and her cohosts began the segment by bashing Patel for going
to the championship game between fierce rivals, the United States and
Canada, because that meant he was not present to handle other major
issues in which the FBI has been deeply involved.

Cohost Ana Navarro mentioned the videos that showed Patel partying with
Team USA in the locker room after their overtime win, and complained
that he was behaving like "a member of `Animal House,'" and claimed she
had no idea what he was even doing there.

Sara Haines argued that she personally would rather have a law
enforcement leader who was "serious and borderline boring," complaining
that he was partying instead of dealing with real issues like the
upheaval in Mexico and the Secret Service-involved shooting at Mar-a-
Lago.

"Right now the world doesn't feel settled or stable, and you've got the
head of the FBI, and the visual of chugging a beer in a locker room,"
she added, arguing that he was not helping the administration to appear
more "competent" and that the whole scenario was "a bit of an insult to
the American people."

Whoopi suggests the rest of the FBI told Patel to get out of
the office to get their "incompetent" boss out of their hair
so they could do their jobs:
"I'm going to put a positive spin on it. Maybe the folks in
the FBI say, `yeah, Kash, go do that' so they don't have to
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Goldberg then pivoted to suggest that maybe the move had come at the
behest of some in the FBI who felt that they would be better able to do
their jobs if Patel was off doing something else.

"I'm going to put a positive spin on it. Maybe the folks in the FBI
say, `yeah, Kash, go do that' so they don't have to deal with him,
because they know he doesn't know what he's doing," she said. "They
know that he is incompetent. They know that he is just - he is a joke
and he is a joke in the rest of the world. And because for most of the
people working in the FBI it is not a joke. They are the ones whose
eyes are on the ball."

Patel himself addressed the media scrutiny in a post to X, saying that
he'd been invited to celebrate with Team USA after their gold-medal win
and had chosen to do so.

"For the very concerned media - yes, I love America and was extremely
humbled when my friends, the newly minted Gold Medal winners on Team
USA, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment
with the boys," he said. "Greatest country on earth and greatest sport
on earth."
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