{"id":340361,"date":"2026-02-23T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/fbi-director-joins-us-mens-hockey-team-in-locker-room-celebration-of-olympic-gold-medal"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:53:12","slug":"fbi-director-joins-us-mens-hockey-team-in-locker-room-celebration-of-olympic-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/fbi-director-joins-us-mens-hockey-team-in-locker-room-celebration-of-olympic-gold-medal","title":{"rendered":"FBI director joins US males&#8217;s hockey crew in locker room celebration of Olympic gold medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">WASHINGTON &#8212; <\/span>FBI Director Kash Patel joined the American men&#8217;s hockey players in the locker room Sunday for a rowdy celebration of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/usa-canada-score-olympics-13495a7dd0dbda9d660479223d3689a8\">winning the gold medal<\/a> in the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">While he was in Milan, the U.S. Secret Service <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/secret-service-president-trump-af8b23c318e2d7709d7b4a0105f8f516\">shot and killed an armed man<\/a> who had driven into Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump\u2019s resort in Florida. Hours later, around the time the game against Canada was headed into overtime, Patel posted on X that the FBI was \u201cdedicating all necessary resources in the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Videos shared on social media showed a pumped-up Patel drinking beer from a bottle and spraying the rest around the locker room. After one of the players draped his gold medal around Patel&#8217;s neck, he joined the players as they jumped up and down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThere was a threat at the president\u2019s residence at MAL, Americans in Mexico are facing major threats by cartel members, Nancy Guthrie is still missing, and our FBI Director thinks he\u2019s a frat bro?!,\u201d Xochitl Hinojosa, the spokeswoman for former Attorney General Merrick Garland said on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Patel responded to the criticism by posting that he was \u201cextremely 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The FBI director had defended his official trip to Italy by saying he was going to meet with Italian law enforcement officials and Americans helping to provide security at the Olympics. He posted pictures this week of his visit to the Milan Joint Operations Center, which he said was charged with protecting the security of American athletes and all those who traveled to Milan for the Winter Games. He also posted a photo of his meeting with the U.S. ambassador to Italy. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/fbi-director-joins-us-mens-hockey-team-locker-130400123\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; FBI Director Kash Patel joined the American men&#8217;s hockey players in the locker room Sunday for a rowdy celebration of winning the gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1750,1923,3,5199,1239,1485,609,156,636,18265,18264],"class_list":["post-340361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-director","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-florida","tag-kash-patel","tag-mexico","tag-milan","tag-president","tag-social-media","tag-washington","tag-x-patel","tag-xochitl-hinojosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340363,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340361\/revisions\/340363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}