BREAKING: Kash Patel Sues MSNBC!

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FBI Director Kash Patel is striking back against the mainstream media.

Kash Patel has just filed a lawsuit against MSNBC.

Patel filed a lawsuit against an MSNBC columnist who claimed that Patel spent his time at nightclubs.

The New York Post shared these details on the lawsuit:

FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a lawsuit in Texas against an MSNBC columnist who falsely claimed the official spent more time in “nightclubs” than inside the Bureau’s headquarters in Washington, DC.

Patel is suing Frank Figliuzzi for “fabricating a specific lie” about him, according to court documents, namely that “reportedly (Patel has) been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building.”

Defendant knew that this was a lie when he said it,” Patel’s attorneys alleged. “…Since becoming Director of the FBI, Director Patel has not spent a single minute inside of a nightclub.”

The suit also claimed “there was no basis for Defendant’s fabrication, and Defendant’s use of the weasel word, ‘reportedly,’ is itself a fabrication.”

“Defendant did not rely on reporting by any other person,” attorneys said in the filing. “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.”

This is the segment where Figliuzzi made the claim:

Now that MSNBC is facing a lawsuit, they are walking back their claims.

Fox News had these key details to report:

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday had to walk back an eyebrow-raising claim made the previous week about FBI Director Kash Patel.

On Friday’s edition of the morning talk show, Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director at the FBI, shared the claim that Patel had been seen out partying more often than working at the office.

“Reportedly, he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building,” Figliuzzi told “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire. “And there are reports that daily briefings to him have been changed from every day to maybe twice-weekly.”

Figliuzzi, who is a national security and intelligence analyst for MSNBC, said his contacts at the FBI told him the agency was in a state of “chaos.”

“People don’t know what’s happening from day-to-day,” he added.

Figliuzzi’s comments were picked up by several media outlets last week. On Monday’s show, Lemire took a moment to retract those comments.

“Frank Figliuzzi was on that hour, discussing the work of administration officials,” Lemire began, referring to Friday’s “Morning Joe.”

“At the end of that segment, Figliuzzi said that FBI Director Kash Patel has been more visible at nightclubs than the FBI headquarters. This was a misstatement. We have not verified that claim,” Lemire said.

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson broke down the story:



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