The judge said that Frank Figliuzzi’s statement, “when taken in context, cannot have been perceived by a person of ordinary intelligence as stating actual facts about Patel.”
A federal judge in Texas has tossed a defamation suit brought by FBI Director Kash Patel against former FBI assistant director-turned-MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi.
Patel had sued Figliuzzi over comments he made on “Morning Joe” about the FBI director’s evening activities.
“Yeah, well, reportedly, he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building,” Figliuzzi said on the show last year.
I’m excited to see what discovery in his defamation suit against The Atlantic will reveal about his conduct (should it go to trial).
This asshat is out there trying to bully media outlets into silence, probably not realizing the hilarious backfire waiting for him when one of them calls his bluff and lets a court verify their allegations 😄
Just read the Atlantic article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/
discovery will just be the proof and witnesses.
“on Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log on to an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach.”
Left CAPS LOCK ON.
he’s been using FBI private jets to party at a famous Coke den in Las Vegas.
He once passed out in his office behind multiple locked doors so they needed to break in with an extraction team.
FBI agents HATE him.
If they had proof, or witnesses willing to go on the record, they would have been in the article.