When the Atlantic magazine trots out one of its mostly anonymous defamation pieces against President Trump or one of his allies, it should be conventional wisdom now that its purpose is purely political. Keep in mind what former Washington Post editor Marty Baron said in a speech last week — more or less that the dying media was untrustworthy for the duration of the Biden administration.
The Atlantic put one of those pieces out last week with a bunch of unseemly allegations related to FBI Director Kash Patel, like that he’s a drunkard and a paranoid putting America’s national security at risk. “They said that the problems with his conduct go well beyond what has been previously known, and include both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences,” the piece of content said. “His behavior has often alarmed officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice, even as he won support from the White House for his eager participation in Trump’s effort to turn federal law enforcement against the president’s perceived political enemies.”
