Kash Patel, who is suing over unflattering article, says he and Trump are ‘as tough as they come’

FBI Director Kash Patel said he and President Donald Trump are “as tough as they come” during a rambling tirade against the media just days after he filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic over an unflattering article.

Patel, 46, made the bizarre aside while addressing claims that he used the FBI to investigate a journalist who wrote about his girlfriend, 27-year-old country singer Alexis Wilkins.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the FBI began investigating its reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, after she wrote that Patel was using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with a security detail and