Christopher Meyer, Kash Patel Private Jet Pilot Controversy
Christopher Meyer, the pilot currently flying FBI Director Kash Patel's private Gulfstream 550, was previously the lead case agent for Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Mar-a-Lago. This investigation resulted in the search warrant executed at Donald Trump's residence. Internal FBI sources report that Patel was unaware of Meyer's background until a viral social media thread exposed the connection, leading to significant internal friction.
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00:00 The bottom line up front is this, the pilot. who flies Kash Patel's private jet right now, a Gulfstream 550 FBI aircraft, was previously in his post just before that, running the investigation into Mar-a-Lago on behalf of Jack Smith that resulted in a search warrant at the now president's house. That sounds really scandalous. So the question is, how do you end up with the guy who ran the case into the current president, now flying around the current FBI director and listening in on all of his conversations? And it goes something like this. I gave advice to Kash Patel early on. I was giving him advice all the way through the nomination process, through the confirmation process, and the minute he was confirmed, he cut me off and no longer started talking. So now he gets the information that I share the same way that any of you would. They listen to my podcast, which is a really awkward thing to find out that the FBI director was catching up on my show and yelling about it and calling me an MF-er apparently. So we put out a thread on Monday of this week
00:57 On Friday, I gave the Trump administration a little bit of a heads up. I called an insider, somebody that I know and trust and said, here's some information. The pilot who was flying cash Patel was the case agent on the Mar-a-Lago case. You should know that this is the person's name. Here's his FAA airman receipts. This is his type certifications on planes. This is his address, which I didn't share, but I said, look, it ties into what goes on over the FAA database. The address that's on file with the tax assessor shows that he's law enforcement. In other words, it's redacted. It says name withheld on behalf of the owner, which is a thing that Virginia does for law enforcement officers. So I gave him all the evidence to be able to make sure that this was the guy. And then I showed them that this guy, Christopher Meyer, was not just the pilot, not just the guy who worked on the Mar-a-Lago case, but he also was the person who was involved in the arrest of one Harrison Floyd.
01:46 Harrison Floyd was one of the guys that went to jail and spent time in the courthouse and alongside Donald Trump as a defendant in Fulton County. So he was part of the Leticia James, not the Leticia James, whatever that other lady, Fannie, the AG Fannie that was in there that was going after Trump and co in the local cases that were happening. So you've got this guy, he helped arrest Harrison Floyd. His partner on that arrest was another guy named Walter Gardena. And Gardena and Chris Meyer apparently had been ordered fired. So that's of note that came as a result of this thread which went out viral on Monday. I gave him two days to respond to it, and then we published it. The story goes forward because nobody was
02:26 Moving forward, what we also found out is that the former number one at the FBI, the acting director at the time when Donald Trump took office, a guy named Brian Driscoll, has also been ordered removed. And the insiders that I had told me that the conversation that went on in the office went something like this. You need to fire that pilot who's underneath your sort of chain of command. He said you can't do that because he's a veteran. And he said, I want him fired anyway. And he said, do you really wanna fire the guy who spent seven months listening to your conversations and flying around in a private jet with you? Which whether it's an implied threat or not, it is one of those kind of things that we all worried about. What does leverage look like? What does it look like to have access? It's the reason why you wouldn't want a case agent from Mar-a-Lago actually flying the plane and having direct shoulder rubs
