It’s getting to the point that you really can’t be disgusted enough with the legacy media, and that’s 100 percent on them. Day after day, hour after hour, the Trump Derangement Syndrome among these blow-dried jet-setting media ‘elite’ grows beyond their ability to control it, and this was on display again on MSNBC during a Friday segment.
On Friday, during a segment on Morning Joe, former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi, who is anti-Trump, made an eyebrow-raising claim about FBI Director Kash Patel, telling viewers that Patel had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building.” The implication—that the FBI director prioritizes nightlife over national security—went unchallenged by the show’s hosts during the broadcast. “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 his experience, without any experience level, things could be bad. If he’s not plugged in, things could be bad,” Figliuzzi claimed.
Now would be a good time to remind you, dear reader, that Figliuzzi is a contributor at MSNBC for a reason, and it’s not to give glowing reports about Trump or his administration or, frankly, anyone Trump would have appointed to run the FBI. So for that reason alone, anything he says he’s ‘heard’ regarding this administration and this FBI should be taken with a grain of salt. In fact, MSNBC itself should have taken that counsel because, come Monday, the network was walking back Figliuzzi’s claims.
“We want to circle back to a segment from Friday’s show,” co-host Jonathan Lemire said as he opened the correction. “Frank Figliuzzi was on that morning during this hour discussing the work of administration officials. At the end of that segment, Figliuzzi said that FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly been more visible at nightclubs than at his office at FBI headquarters. This was a misstatement. We have not verified that claim.”
Of course they haven’t. Because they can’t. Because it’s very likely untrue. Think about it — the man Trump trusts to run the FBI, arguably the world’s premier law enforcement agency, is an unserious party animal who is AWOL on the job? That dog won’t hunt.