Another Hoax Goes Up in Smoke: MSNBC Forced to Issue Retraction Live On-Air After Guest Floats Bogus Claim About Kash Patel (VIDEO) |

Another Day, Another Fabrication

The latest narrative spun around former FBI Director Kash Patel has unraveled quicker than a cheap sweater.

Last week, Frank Figliuzzi, a former counter-intelligence official, took to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to paint a rather colorful picture of Patel’s alleged nightlife, claiming—with no evidence to back it up—that he has been frequenting nightclubs more than he has been fulfilling his duties at the Hoover Building.

“Reportedly, he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building,” Figliuzzi asserted, as if he were narrating a plot twist in a poorly written soap opera.

He went on to suggest that Patel’s daily briefings had been downgraded from every day to a mere twice weekly, implying that the FBI is teetering on the brink of chaos.

“Kash Patel has been spending a lot of time at his home in Las Vegas, and therefore the FBI is in total chaos,” Figliuzzi claimed, painting a picture of a beleaguered agency floundering without its leader.

“This is both a blessing and a curse,” he added, as if he were some sort of sage. “If he’s really trying to run things without any experience, things could be bad. If he’s not plugged in, things could be bad. But he’s allowing agents to run things so we don’t know where this is going,” remarked Figliuzzi, according to The Daily Beast.

“The one word that keeps coming back at me from inside is that the building is chaos,” he continued, as if this were a gripping thriller rather than a serious discussion about national security.

However, the narrative took a sharp turn when MSNBC had to issue an on-air retraction on Monday. “This was a misstatement. We have not verified that claim,” the network admitted, acknowledging the fiction that had slipped through their editorial cracks.

MSNBC was forced to make an on-air correction for falsely claiming that FBI Director Kash Patel has “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building”.

They just have to make things up now. pic.twitter.com/D9LhpDsSps

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