One other day, one other hoax.
The newest hoax solely lasted a number of days till it fell aside.
Final week, former counter-intelligence official Frank Figliuzzi appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to debate Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel.
Figliuzzi claimed, with out providing any proof in any respect, that Kash Patel has been partying at nightclubs and barely working.
“Reportedly, he’s been seen at nightclubs way over he has been on the seventh ground of the Hoover constructing,” Figliuzzi stated on Morning Joe final week.
“And there are stories that day by day briefings to him have been modified from daily to perhaps twice weekly,” he added.
Figliuzzi claimed Kash Patel has been spending a whole lot of time at his house in Las Vegas and subsequently the FBI is in whole chaos.
“So that is each a blessing and a curse, as a result of if he’s actually making an attempt to run issues with out his expertise, with none expertise degree, issues might be unhealthy. If he’s not plugged in, issues might be unhealthy. However he’s permitting brokers to run issues so we don’t know the place that is going,” Figliuzzi stated, in line with The Daily Beast.
“However the one phrase that retains coming again at me from inside is that the constructing is chaos,” he stated.
“Folks don’t know what’s occurring from everyday. There’s additionally been reporting, I consider, from the Wall Avenue Journal, the Washington Publish, that Patel spent a whole lot of his time at his house in Las Vegas. He’s been kind of working remotely for not less than a part of the week.”
On Monday, MSNBC was compelled to difficulty an on-air retraction.
“This was a misstatement. We have now not verified that declare,” MSNBC stated of Frank Figliuzzi’s bogus claims about Kash Patel.
WATCH:
MSNBC was compelled to make an on-air correction for falsely claiming that FBI Director Kash Patel has “been seen at nightclubs way over he has been on the seventh ground of the Hoover Constructing”.
They simply need to make issues up now. pic.twitter.com/D9LhpDsSps
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