FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche could reportedly see their jobs threatened if they fail to produce the indictments President Donald Trump is seeking from a sprawling series of election-related investigations.

The Atlantic’s Sarah Fitzpatrick reported Friday that the FBI has poured significant resources into election investigations as the midterms approach, with current and former officials describing intense pressure from the White House for results.

“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs. He wants the headlines,” one former official told Fitzpatrick, adding that Trump wants action “no matter how thin” the facts are.

Asked what would happen if Trump did not get his way, that source said Patel and Blanche could find their jobs threatened: “They’ve spent so much money on this. They’re going to have to come up with something.”

The report, based on interviews with more than 40 current and former administration officials, FBI employees, lawmakers and congressional staffers, and others close to the White House, paints Patel as particularly eager to accommodate the president.

“Patel is the only guy who never says no,” a Republican operative with close ties to the White House told Fitzpatrick. “And the president likes that.”

One former senior FBI official similarly claimed Patel had told staff that he “believed the same things as the president” about election conspiracies and was willing to accommodate requests coming from the White House.

“It was clear that Kash was just trying to hold on to his job, and willing to do anything it takes,” the former official said.

Another former FBI official recalled personally hearing Patel say, “I have to do this for the White House.”

Fitzpatrick also reported that Patel has been upset when election investigations failed to produce new findings, telling staff to “look harder” or “look again,” per three people familiar with the conversations.

Officials told the reporter that many of the election-related requests were understood to have originated with the White House, with instructions sometimes relayed to FBI personnel that “this is a big deal for the president” or “this is a push from 47.”

In July, roughly 260 FBI employees were ordered to temporarily set aside their regular work and review data connected to 2020 ballots seized in Fulton County, Georgia. People familiar with the effort told Fitzpatrick it ultimately failed to turn up anything substantive.

The significant effort has reportedly sparked unease inside the bureau. Two FBI analysts were walked out of the office after questioning the Georgia process, while agents elsewhere have also expressed concern over election-related directives.

And the reported pressure from the president comes amid upheaval in the Justice Department’s “grand conspiracy” investigation regarding the 2020 election won by former President Joe Biden. Several attorneys recently left the probe, with Trump ally Joe DiGenova, who previously oversaw it, resigning and saying: “If you want indictments where there’s no evidence, you have an ethical problem.”

Not to mention, two former DOJ officials told Fitzpatrick that prosecutors who recently left the investigation had squabbled with senior leadership about producing indictments before the midterms.

Fitzpatrick has previously reported critically on Patel, including an April story alleging colleagues had been alarmed by episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. Patel denied the reporting and filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against Fitzpatrick and The Atlantic.

Patel did not directly answer Fitzpatrick’s questions for the new report, instead writing, “I’m still looking for my gold-plated jet ski in the English Channel; you all know where it is. Free ride if you help me find it.”

The White House denied dictating investigations or charges, telling The Atlantic that “Investigative decisions are made by the Department based on evidence. No one is charged because of a headline, and no one is charged without a grand jury finding probable cause.”

The FBI pushed back as well, saying “election security is and will continue to be one of this FBI’s highest national security priorities” and pointing to what it called a “500% increase in election integrity-related investigations and arrests just this year alone.”