BREAKING: YES! A federal judge crushes Kash Patel by throwing out a defamation lawsuit that he brought against an ex-FBI employee for exposing his frat boy lifestyle.
Keystone Kash just got one more reason to hit the bottle...
"The Court finds that Figliuzzi’s statement is rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation,” U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks Jr. wrote, referring to a statement from former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi that Patel is "visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor" of the FBI headquarters.
He added that “daily briefings to [Patel] have been changed from every day to maybe twice-weekly" and the agency is in a state of "chaos."
The judge's decision to side with Figliuzzi is clearly the correct choice. No rational person would read that statement and think that Figliuzzi meant Patel literally spends more time at nightclubs at headquarters. His point was that he spends far more time at nightclubs than he should.
“A person of reasonable intelligence and learning would not have taken his statement literally: that Dir. Patel has actually spent more hours physically in a nightclub than he has spent physically in his office building," wrote the judge.
“By saying that Patel spent ‘far more’ time at nightclubs than his office, Figliuzzi delivered his answer ‘in an exaggerated, provocative and amusing way,’ employing rhetorical hyperbole," Hanks added. “Accordingly, Dir. Patel has failed to state a claim against Figliuzzi, and his lawsuit must be dismissed.”
Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, made the remarks in question during an appearance on "Morning Joe." The clip went viral, not because it was some gross defamatory statement, but because it's so clearly true. The American people are now all too aware that their FBI Director is a drunken stooge who wastes our tax dollars jetting around with his wannabe country musician girlfriend, spending very little time actually pursuing criminals.
We would suggest that Patel spend less time filing frivolous lawsuits — like the $250 million one he filed against The Atlantic for revealing his alleged alcoholism — and more time worrying about his legacy. Right now, he's on track to be remembered solely as a pedophile protector for his central role in covering up the Epstein files.
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Trump was 43 when his wife testified under oath that he ripped hair from her scalp and sexually assaulted her in 1989. She also described a marriage marked by physical abuse.
Trump was 46 when Jill Harth accused him of sexual assault at Mar-a-Lago in 1992.
Trump was 51 when he boasted, on the Howard Stern show, about watching Miss Teen USA contestants change their clothes.
Trump was 57 when he decided NOT to file a police report after being informed that Jeffrey Epstein had attempted to solicit sexual services from a spa employee in 2003.
Trump was 59 when he was recorded making statements in which he boasted about sexually assaulting women.
At some point, you have to be honest with yourself.
There is a pattern of behavior.
He's a predator.
h/t to @mjfree (no, not THAT Morgan Freeman) on Twitter
Celebrated my daughter’s birthday she request her favorite food @wingstop as the main dish we placed a large order!!! at pick up we were told someone stole it which we understand that can happen. The disappointment was they refused to remake the order!!! or refund us.
"The 1st time Donald had sex w/Melania was on my plane. Little did he know I beat him 2 the punch a year b4 when I was at a party of NY's top models ... Things got wild & by the end of the night I ended up almost naked in the back of a limo, going at it with Melania." -Epstein
Before Trump was reelected ICE had a $10 billion yearly budget, they currently have $85 billion from Trump's BBB. ( 8.5 years worth )
Yet Republicans want you to believe that Democrats are shutting them down by not including them in TSA funding.
BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Bombshell report accuses Trump and Rubio of "the largest fraud in the history of the U.S. immigration system" amounting to over $1.3 billion stolen from migrants.
And the details will absolutely enrage you...
According to the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank, Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem extracted at least $1.3 billion from migrants in fees for visa processing and other immigration services that they never intended to provide. They took the money, then took no steps to hold up their end of the agreement.
The administration is taking money from immigrant hopefuls from over 90 countries despite the fact that Trump's own xenophobic travel bans have made it so that those same people are "banned from receiving immigrant visas and immigrating permanently to the United States." Trump is having it both ways: taking the money he would get for allowing immigration while simultaneously blocking that immigration.
"During testimony before the US Senate, I called it the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system. In fact, it is likely the first $1 billion fraud—a theft of processing fees for services never rendered," wrote David J. Bier for Cato.
But the corruption goes so much deeper...
Rubio's State Department has issued internal rules that prohibit his staff from informing the migrants in question that they have no chance of success and their money is essentially being stolen. It's a systemic graft operation.
“Cubans represent the largest group of affected applicants with nearly a million affected applications at a combined cost of $543 million. The second most common was Venezuelans, with 239,000 applications at a cost of $138 million,” Cato reports.
Cato estimates that over 2 million immigrant applicants were affected by the travel bans and had their money taken when there no intention on the part of the administration of rendering the services in question.
"The fees came primarily from applications for work permits and filings to adjust status to permanent residence or immigrant visas—the two ways in which people receive green cards to stay permanently in the United States," writes Bier.
Congress must immediately investigate this blatant, rampant fraud and begin the long, difficult process of ensuring that every single victim is paid back with interest. These people came looking for a better life in the United States and were instead fleeced for what little money they had. This is a kind of cruelty and greed that could only exist with Donald Trump as president.
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BREAKING: A beer was thrown at President Trump during a press conference this afternoon in Washington. Trump was unharmed. Since the beer was a draft,... he was able to dodge it.
BREAKING: In a defiant moment, Senator Mark Kelly just made clear that he will attend tonight's State of the Union just to spite Trump for trying to have him indicted. This is amazing.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump Could be forced to resign from presidency as early as March 31st by Epstein victim press conference
Epstein victim claims tapes exist of Donald Trump doing things recorded by Jeffrey Epstein.
This video is ten minutes, but it'll be the best 10 minutes of your day.
Every single American needs to see this clip.
You can find it on instagram posted by CSPAN and then you can download it yourself and repost this video here and across every platform.
I HOPE, WHEN WE START HOLDING THESE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CRIMES THAT PAM BONDI
GETS THE JUSTICE THAT
SHE DESERVES