President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared reluctant to directly endorse the performance of embattled FBI Director Kash Patel when speaking to reporters before departing the White House for London.
Patel, the lawyer and ex-podcaster who was confirmed to run the nation’s premier investigatory agency along party lines earlier this year, has been under fire for what critics say has been his lackluster and bumbling performance in the days since a gunman murdered activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last week.
