It’s been a more disastrous than normal month for Devin Nunes. He lost one defamation suit. He’s overseeing a highly-mocked roll out of Donald Trump’s social media platform. He’s ridiculed for claiming Truth Social has more interactions than Twitter. And now, he’s lost another defamation suit, Reuters reports.
Upholding a lower court ruling, three-judge federal panel dismissed the former congressman’s defamation suit against CNN for claiming he was involved in the Trump administration scheme to get damaging information from Ukraine about Joe and Hunter Biden. The opinion stated Nunes waited to long to claim he was defamed by the CNN reports and seek a correction, and he could not prove he deserved “special damages” for financial losses.
Nunes is upset that CNN linked him to the plot reportedly organized by Nosferatu cosplayer Rudy Giuliani, convicted felon Lev Parnas, TheShill reporter John Solomon (who failed to acknowledge in his reporting that he was in the room advising the group on strategy, then writing up the bogus reports as “news” to claim objectivity) and Fox’s favorite conspiracy couple, Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing. Another person involved in the planning: Nunes’s former House top aide Derek Harvey, who Nunes would like people to believe didn’t fill his boss in on the discussions.
The ruling dismisses Nunes’s claim of $435 million in damages, or as Fox will report later: “Liberal judges cost Devin Nunes $435 million!”