UPDATE: On May 5, 2025, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire announced the claim about Kash Patel had not been verified. "This was a misstatement. We have not verified that claim," he said.
According to a former FBI official, Donald Trump's FBI director is not exactly throwing himself whole-heartedly into his new job.
During an appearance on MSNBC with "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire asked former FBI counter-intelligence official Frank Figliuzzi how Kash Patel is fitting into the FBI culture after his Trump appointment and Figliuzzi had little good to say.
"Frank, let's turn to FBI Director Kash Patel, who has sort of taken a surprisingly backseat role, at least to this point in the first 102 or 3 days, wherever we are right now," Lemire prompted his guest. "What do you make of that? That he's just been a little less visible than I think a lot of people, Trump observers expect that he would be."
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"Yeah well, reportedly, he's been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building," Figliuzzi replied. "And 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 you, 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. But he's allowing agents to run things so we don't know where this is going."
"But the one word that keeps coming back at me from inside is that building is chaos," he added. " People don't know what's happening from day to day. There's also been reporting, I believe, from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, that Patel spent a lot of his time at his home in Las Vegas –– he's been sort of working remotely for at least part of the week."
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