Nearly a week after FBI Director Kash Patel’s roughly five-hour testimony before the House Judiciary Committee with regard to his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a note he wrote to himself is raising eyebrows online.
Patel’s handwritten words are clearly legible in a photo taken by Getty Images photographer Win McNamee.
“Good fight with Swalwell. Hold the line,” the note, written in blue ink on Patel’s official stationery, reads. “Brush off their attacks. Rise above the next line of partisan attacks.”
Journalist Aaron Rupar posted the photo to his X account Friday, where it has since been viewed more than 5.3 million times and drawn a plethora of amusing responses.
“Lmfao he’s writing words of affirmation to himself,” one person wrote.
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Others blasted Patel as “an odd, unqualified man” who resembled “a kid in school who’s just trying to pass his next calculus exam.”
“This reads like the pep talk I give myself before every holiday with my family,” another person wrote.
Patel faced two days of combative hearings in both chambers of Congress last week, during which he was also questioned about his loyalty to President Donald Trump and the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
He most notably sparred with lawmakers calling for answers about unreleased documents in the investigation into Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking underage girls.
At one point, Patel dodged California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s questions about the Trump administration’s lack of transparency over the Epstein files by reciting his ABCs and, later, claimed there is “no credible information” that Epstein trafficked young women to anyone but himself.
He also claimed to be unaware of mass shooter Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black people at a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015.
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