A day after FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic, he has lost a different defamation claim, against news analyst and pundit Frank Figliuzzi. U.S. District Judge George Hanks Jr. dismissed Patel's lawsuit against Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, who has been an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Patel sued after Figliuzzi, appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe last year, said of the FBI director, "Well, reportedly, he's been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building."
@#3 ... there's no reason to believe that to be true when Trump is making the appointments ...
Wait ...
Pres Trump has said that he onlu appoints the best and the brightest to his Cabinet.
OpEd: Trump's best-and-brightest problem (2018)
www.chicagotribune.com
... Way back in 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his presidential run and the country began to learn what New Yorkers had always known about him, he reassured folks that he was a talent magnet.
"I'm going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people," he boasted to The Washington Post back then. "We want top-of-the line professionals."
And, here we are. Boris Epshteyn, Anthony Scaramucci, Sebastian Gorka, Carter Page, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Corey Lewandowski, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and others all have come and gone. ...
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