Wag the Dog, Fetch the Jet

How Kash Patel turned a taxpayer-funded love story into a national-security press stunt—and proved Kyle Seraphin right in record time.

If you were writing this as fiction, your editor would send it back with a note: “Too on the nose. Tone it down.” But no, this is real life under the Trump restoration, where the FBI director moonlights as a tabloid protagonist and “national security” has been reimagined as a PR stunt with taxpayer-funded special effects.

It began with an airplane. A $60…