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The attempted scoop from MS NOW landed about an hour before the White House publicly debunked it. The outlet claimed Trump was “considering removing Kash Patel as FBI director in the coming months, as he and his top aides have grown increasingly frustrated by the unflattering headlines Patel has recently generated.”
The story leaned on unnamed sources described as “three people with knowledge of the situation,” a familiar media pattern whenever corporate news outlets want to float damaging narratives without evidence.
One of the article’s authors, MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian, doubled down on the report during a later broadcast—even after the White House posted the photo contradicting the premise. He argued that publishing the story may have unintentionally made Patel’s position stronger.
Dilanian claimed he received messages from FBI contacts supporting the article’s angle, saying, “you’re spot on… it’s anybody’s guess how this is all going to play out, but it is absolutely our reporting that, of course, Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, but also the White House and Donald Trump have grown annoyed with the bad press that Patel has been racking up.”
One of the so-called headlines Trump allegedly disliked was a recent accusation that Patel used a government jet to watch his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, perform—a story Patel earlier slammed as “fake news.”
During a separate segment with MS NOW anchor Katy Tur, Dilanian repeated the outlet’s narrative, hedging heavily before pushing the idea that Patel’s job was in jeopardy. “Well, Katy, I should say, first of all, all the qualifiers apply here. With Donald Trump and personnel decisions, you never actually know exactly what’s going on. But we are being told that Kash Patel, the FBI director, is on increasingly thin ice…” He also floated the possibility that Trump may replace Patel with Andrew Bailey.
The MS NOW correspondent added that Trump was reportedly irritated by “premature tweets” Patel posted involving the investigation into the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Beyond the media noise, Patel has recently taken center stage for launching an unprecedented financial crackdown on Antifa-linked networks across the country. In October, he announced that federal agents were “following the money” in order to expose and dismantle the funding pipelines sustaining far-left extremist groups.
“We are following the money. Money never lies,” Patel said during a briefing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “And that’s what it’s going to take to bring down this network of organized criminal thugs, gang bangers, and yes, domestic terrorists — because that’s what they are.”
Patel confirmed that the FBI and Treasury Department are working side-by-side to unravel the financial web behind Antifa operations across both the United States and international locations.
“We will not rest until we uncover every single source of funding, donor, organization, and financial support that exists,” he said.
He also emphasized that the investigation will extend into every major city nationwide. “They will not be able to hide. They were able to hide and conspire with prior administrations, and we are exposing their corruption from within,” Patel said.
In short: while MS NOW spent its day pushing another anonymously sourced anti-Trump narrative, the White House put the story to rest with a smile and a thumbs-up—while Patel continues focusing on dismantling extremist networks the legacy media refuses to acknowledge.
