John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor, raised some eyebrows when he claimed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to head the FBI, “was [not] in charge of a directorate during my tenure as national security adviser or thereafter, as he contends in his memoir and elsewhere.”

The sensational claim has been discredited by both Patel’s fellow Trump administration alumni and his still-active biography listed on the Biden administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) website.

Robert O’Brien, who served as Trump’s National Security Advisor immediately following Bolton, also wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that “Mr. Patel served as the National Security Council’s senior director for counterterrorism when I was White House national security adviser. I was able to count on him to get any job done, no matter how complex or difficult. Mr. Patel handled some of the nation’s most sensitive issues with care and discretion.”