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GOP Rep. Devin Nunes Filing Lawsuit Against CNN, Daily Beast over 'False and Scandalous' Stories

By Jack Davis
Published November 24, 2019 at 8:00am
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California, who last week trashed the media over its coverage of the Ukraine controversy, is taking his challenge to “fake news” a step further.

Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Saturday that he plans to file lawsuits against CNN and The Daily Beast regarding their recent coverage of him, according to Breitbart.

With some variations, the two media outlets both recently published stories claiming that Nunes worked with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who has been indicted by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York on campaign finance charges.

CNN’s version includes an alleged secret meeting in Vienna between Parnas and Nunes, who denies the substance and innuendoes in both stories.

CNN has reported that when a CNN reporter went to ask Nunes about the alleged Vienna meeting, Nunes would not respond to questions.

“I don’t talk to you in this lifetime or the next lifetime,” Nunes said, adding, “At any time. On any question.”

CNN said that it asked again at a later date and received a similar reply.

“To be perfectly clear, I don’t acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime or the next lifetime,” Nunes said. “I don’t acknowledge any question from you ever.”

In his statements, Nunes said CNN and The Daily Beast failed to do their homework.

“These demonstrably false and scandalous stories published by the Daily Beast and CNN are the perfect example of defamation and reckless disregard for the truth,” Nunes said in a statement published by Breitbart.

To win a libel lawsuit, public figures such as Nunes must be able to prove that defamatory statements were published with reckless disregard for the truth — in other words, that a publisher knew something was false but published it anyway.

“Some political operative offered these fake stories to at least five different media outlets before finding someone irresponsible enough to publish them. I look forward to prosecuting these cases, including the media outlets, as well as the sources of their fake stories, to the fullest extent of the law,” Nunes said in the statement.

“I intend to hold the Daily Beast and CNN accountable for their actions. They will find themselves in court soon after Thanksgiving,” the statement said.

On Tuesday, Nunes used his opening statement at the Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry hearing to slam the media.

“If you watched the impeachment hearings last week, you may have noticed a disconnect between what you actually saw and the mainstream media accounts describing it,” Nunes said.

“When you saw three diplomats, who dislike President Trump’s Ukraine policy, discussing second-hand and third-hand conversations about their objections with the Trump policy. Meanwhile, they admitted they had not talked to the president about these matters. And they were unable to identify any crime or impeachable offense the president committed,” he said.



“There was no objectivity or fairness in the media’s Russia stories, just a fevered rush to tarnish and remove a president who refuses to pretend that the media are something different from what they really are: puppets of the Democratic Party,” he said.

Nunes said the media refuse to learn.

Nunes will win the Law suit ..

SerialBrain9 wrote on Nov 25^th, 2019 at 7:48am:


Firstly, you accuse a lot of people of lying but never when pushed for examples to justify your claims, ever, provide any.

And secondly, Nunes also sued a fictional cow on twitter for being mean to him...

The man is a walking joke.

So please, post some examples of these lies you say have been told by me and co, or will you just abandon another thread?

Karnal wrote on Nov 25^th, 2019 at 10:56am:


Trump said he wanted to make it easier to sue, so the left should take advantage of that too, unless it's another broken promise.

SerialBrain9 wrote on Nov 25^th, 2019 at 7:48am:


very true, yet we endure as we expose their lies .. its quite amusing really

it_is_the_light wrote on Nov 25^th, 2019 at 11:27am:


  No its not!

  We need jail terms for those in the MSM violating their journalistic oaths and deliberately spreading fake news.

Quote:


Nunes sat in the investigation behind closed doors and then the open hearing as the Republicans lead.

Then Giuliani's mate outs that Nunes was himself in it up to his nuts.

Surprise surprise surprise the Gomer who has been indignantly denying anything had happened was himself involved.

Then we get emails released by court order showing Giuliani and Pompano working together in March etc

Then talking about a Gomer we have Gomer Trump still trying to say that Ukraine have the DNC Server. This is roll on the floor laughing conspiracy theory rubbish.

Trump is also saying that Crownstrike are owned by a Ukrainian Which is False it is owned by an American who was born in Russia. Gomer Trump is saying that Crowdstrike is a Ukranian company which is also false it is an American company based in silicon Valley. To wrap it all up Crowdstrike currently hold contracts to do security work for the republican party.

WOW Gomer is nutso Trump.

Richdude wrote on Nov 26^th, 2019 at 12:32am:


Do you really not know how much that's going to hurt a lot of the information you rely on to form, or reinforce, your opinions?

Would you extend this to the right-wing blogs that tell outright lies or unsupported conspiracy bullshit, or just the msm that's factually accurate reporting you don't like?