Leave it to Donald Trump and his administration to ruin something joyful like Team USA’s men’s hockey Olympic win and turn it into a tawdry, self-serving spectacle. What started as a unifying, goosebumps-inducing sports moment quickly became a case study in how the Trump administration degrades every institution it touches — from the White House to the FBI to the Winter Olympics.
There is a particular kind of hypocrisy so brazen, so cartoonishly on-the-nose, that it almost defies satire. FBI Director Kash Patel, who spent years burning with righteous fury over the perceived corruption of the bureau’s leadership class — who took to his podcast to demand that former director Christopher Wray’s government-funded G5 be grounded, who testified before Congress in barely contained outrage over FBI directors using taxpayer planes for personal travel — has now been caught doing precisely that and more, and worse. And he did it with a beer in his hand and a gold medal around his neck that he did nothing to earn.
