A federal judge has thrown out Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit against disgraced former FBI official and MSNBC talking head Frank Figliuzzi.
In a sharply worded ruling, U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks Jr., appointed by Barack Obama, dismissed the case outright, concluding that Figliuzzi’s viral claim, that Patel spent more time in nightclubs than at FBI headquarters, was not a statement of fact, but protected speech.
In June 2025,FBI Director Kash Patel 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,” theNew York Postreported.
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.”
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
— Trending Politics (@tpbreaking)June 11, 2025
According to Patel’s legal team, that claim is not only false—it wasknowinglymade 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.”
Source: The Gateway Pundit
