# Kash Patel Panics as He Fails to Take Sobriety Test

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Published: 2026-05-18T15:00:00+00:00
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Popok reports on Senator Van Hollen of Maryland hammering away on some of the final nails in the professional coffin of FBI Dir. Kash Patel, as he maneuvered him into publicly promising to take a written Sobriety test, then watched as he broke the promise, leading Van Hollen to declare in an interview on Sunday that Patel is frequently "incapacitated" and unable to do his job and has "compromised" the FBI and its responsibilities, and calling for his immediate firing. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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