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Kash Patel ‘jumped the gun’ with announcement of UFC plot arrests, sources say

Secret Service officials are angered by the FBI director's early morning social media post that was shared before some suspects were arrested.

Jun. 16, 2026, 3:53 PM EDT

By Carol Leonnig, Ken Dilanian, Marc Santia and Lisa Rubin

Secret Service officials are angered that FBI Director Kash Patel prematurely announced on Tuesday the details of a largely sealed and ongoing criminal investigation into an alleged plot to attack Sunday’s White House UFC event with drones, according to three people familiar with the incident.

Secret Service and FBI agents had been partnered on the investigation into a group of individuals discussing plans for a drone attack at the White House in the last week, and had discussed unsealing the case and making a joint announcement Tuesday afternoon, according to sources.

The problem with Patel’s social media announcement, the sources say, was that the case had been sealed in court and roughly 10 suspects had not yet been arrested and placed in custody at the time Patel shared his post. The people said Secret Service and FBI officials were surprised by Patel “jumping the gun.”

“We all woke up this morning to see this on Twitter,” said one administration official, who, like others, asked to speak confidentially to discuss sensitive matters.

The threat to the UFC event became known to the Secret Service and FBI in the last week when a relative of one of the suspects contacted local police in the Cincinnati area, according to two people briefed on the probe, and reported that their relative was talking about engaging in a vague plot in Washington.

An advanced threat interdiction team at the Secret Service, with the help of the FBI, began seeking a subpoena for an encrypted Signal chat thread and was able to identify the plot being planned and some of the people discussing using drones and possible snipers to attack the UFC fight event at the White House’s South Lawn.

Authorities then arrested one suspect, 19-year-old Tycen Proper of Ohio, on June 13 and moved immediately to seal the case so the FBI and Secret Service could continue investigating, identifying and arresting additional suspects.

The vice president tried to make himself palatable to women voters while promoting his new book. Instead, he scored a number of hard-to-watch own goals, writes Holly Baxter

JD Vance found time in his busy schedule to promote his book on daytime television today — and what a promotion it was.

In case you’re out of the loop and/or you’ve been concentrating on other, lesser news items like the Iran deal or the G7, allow me to enlighten you. Communion is the book nobody asked for, but by God, we’re all going to get. It’s about Vance’s conversion to Catholicism, presumably written in order to make the vice president seem more palatable for a 2028 presidential run.

His appearance on The View, a show whose audience — and panel — are predominantly middle-aged women, makes sense. It’s well-known both that MAGA Republicans are hemorrhaging female voters and that Vance as a person has a major woman problem. This is surely supposed to be the de-ickifying of a vice president who has steadfastly been giving women the ick since 2021.

If I were his campaign manager, however, my head would be in my hands right now. The panel opened with a question on the economy. Why are prices still high, he was asked, when Vance and Trump ran together on a platform of lower prices for all?

“We were elected on a number of mandates,” Vance clarified, in a bizarre twist on ‘well, actually’ that didn’t exactly make him look good. One was to lower immigration. Another was to lower prices, and as for that, “there’s a lot of work to do.” Which, I mean... of course.

Wait that's cruel

I shouldn't compare cockroaches like JD Vance to monkeys

After all

Hopefully, if the inquiry does what I hope it does, this will show how harmful the anti-trans rhetoric in the UK is and will continue to be for trans children.

Kohen Kartier Wiley is all our children. The indefensible is the default for police and LEO anti-blackness and it keeps getting worse.

Murdering children is a global epidemic. Infanticide is all too common.

WASHINGTON ― Republicans on Tuesday blocked a Democratic bill to abolish President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and nullify a settlement freeing Trump and his family from any ongoing tax enforcement.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats would continue to insist on killing the slush fund and the tax break.

“The only way we’re going to ensure that they never see the light of day is to ban them permanently by law,” he said in remarks on the Senate floor.

Schumer asked the Senate for “unanimous consent” to pass the bill — meaning without a vote — but Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) objected.

Zachary Pleat and Gideon Taaffe at MMFA:

Americans are feeling pain at the pump and elsewhere thanks to the ongoing surge in oil and fuel prices from President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, and local television news stations have been at the forefront of documenting that pain, with even some local stations owned by the right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group airing such coverage. Sinclair’s national programming, however, has often applied a Trump-friendly spin while discussing high gas prices, downplaying the increases and suggesting they'll be short-lived. Sinclair’s The National Desk, which airs on more than 70 stations, repeated administration claims early in the war that there would be only a small jump in prices and that the increase would be short-lived, and more recently has hyped seemingly every small drop in prices. And coverage from Sinclair’s Full Measure, which airs weekly on more than 130 stations, has featured a segment attacking California’s energy and environmental policies, much like Fox did, and another segment pushing a promise from Trump that gas prices would soon come down. 

Which means my grandfather's father was a sharecropper, which is within my family's oral history for why the [surname] family property and farm is the way it is and has been in the family for so long.

My grandfather died at 96 years old at the turn of the century.

Sharecropping as we know it today ended sometime in the 1930s-1950s depending on the state. Not only was my grandfather a sharecropper's son- my grandfather was a sharecropper himself during his early adulthood before he left home to join the military and later became a preacher.

My grandfather marched with Martin Luther Kin Jr and educated my father on black politics and activism. My father just turned 71, the same age as Ruby Bridges, the little girl who sparked the mass desegregation of education. She was born in 1954. There exists a photo somewhere of a little boy on a man's shoulders in the crowd at one of MLK's public events. That's my dad.

That's how close this is to the current era.

I said that once as a teenager on a forum. I was mocked and told that I am either way older than I claimed to be or that I am way off in my estimations because slavery was long ago. Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the Civil Rights movement itself, that is in recent enough memory to be evident in the lives of those who are alive today. My grandfather's grandfather- I'm just 5 generations removed from slavery.