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Cash Patel responded swiftly to these allegations, authorizing statements to be on the record denying the incident entirely. He refutes the story that he refused to leave the plane without proper attire or patches. According to Patel, he flew directly from New York to Utah, had no proper clothing at the time, and borrowed an FBI jacket from a colleague. The patches story, he claims, is entirely false; a fellow agent simply handed him a patch as a token of solidarity, not as part of any staged or exaggerated display of toughness.