FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit in Texas against MSNBC’s resident deep state mouthpiece Frank Figliuzzi, accusing him of fabricating a vicious lie designed to smear Patel’s reputation and sabotage his leadership at the Bureau.
Figliuzzi, a disgraced former FBI official-turned-leftist propagandist, claimed on live television that Patel had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building,” the New York Post reported.
Figliuzzi continued, “There are reports that daily briefings to him have been changed from every day to maybe twice weekly. So this is both a blessing and a curse, because if he’s really trying to run things without any experience level, things could be bad.”
WATCH:
FBI Director Kash Patel has sued Frank Figluzzi for fabricating a lie after Figluzzi claimed on MSNBC that Patel spent more time at nightclubs than at the Hoover Building.
Here is the segment where Figluzzi made the claim: pic.twitter.com/oGFaUSR4BX
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According to Patel’s legal team, that claim is not only false—it was knowingly made up out of thin air.
“Defendant knew that this was a lie when he said it,” the lawsuit reads. “Since becoming Director of the FBI, Director Patel has not spent a single minute inside of a nightclub.”
The complaint further blasts Figliuzzi’s pathetic attempt to shield himself with the classic fake news escape hatch—saying “reportedly”—when there was never a single report, source, or shred of evidence.
Patel’s attorneys made it clear: “Defendant made up the story out of whole cloth, and by using the word ‘reportedly,’ attempts to distance himself from what is a maliciously false and defamatory statement.”
More from the New York Post:
The attorneys allege Figliuzzi’s claim constituted defamation, noting that Figliuzzi previously wrote, “Patel is one of the most ill-suited Cabinet nominees—not just now, but of all time.”
“Defendant fabricated this story to discredit Director Patel because of Defendant’s clear animus toward Director Patel,” his attorneys said.
“Defendant previously wrote, ‘Patel is one of the most ill-suited Cabinet nominees—not just now, but of all time.’ And, ‘The FBI’s motto is Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. The record suggests that Patel doesn’t possess any of those traits.’”
“Defendant also wrote, ‘It isn’t just that Patel is wholly unqualified to lead the pre-eminent law enforcement and intelligence agency in the nation and perhaps the world … Patel’s particular problem goes far beyond competence: His record shows no devotion to the Constitution, but blind allegiance to Trump.”
The FBI director’s suit also alleged that “as a partisan commentator, (Figliuzzi) was motivated to sensationalize, and in this case, fabricate a story to self-promotingly advance his own name recognition, at the expense of Director Patel.”
Read the full article here