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.
