Judge dismisses Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit over claim he frequented ‘nightclubs’

A Houston federal court judge dismissed a lawsuit by Kash Patel that claimed Frank Figliuzzi defamed the FBI director in a comment on the MS NOW show “Morning Joe.” Figliuzzi, a former FBI official, had said Patel has “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building,” the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. “Figliuzzi’s statement is rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation,” U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks Jr. wrote in his decision. The lawsuit is unrelated to the $250 million defamation lawsuit that Patel filed Monday against The Atlantic magazine...