An MSNBC columnist and former FBI counterintelligence officer made a “maliciously false and defamatory statement” against Kash Patel, according to a lawsuit the FBI director filed.
Frank Figliuzzi was lambasting President Donald Trump’s choice to head up the Federal Bureau of Investigation when he made a bizarre accusation meant to portray Patel as unfocused and unwilling to fulfill the obligations of the job.
‘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.’
“Well, reportedly he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building,” Figliuzzi had said about Patel in a segment on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in May.
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