Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is suing NBCUniversal for defamation, citing comments made by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in March regarding his dealings with an individual sanctioned by the U.S. government.
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas alleges that Maddow and the network “harbor an institutional hostility, hatred, extreme bias, spite and ill-will” toward Nunes.
The congressman’s lawyers argue that Maddow’s criticisms of Nunes are based on his “emergence as the most prominent skeptic in Congress of Maddow’s marquee news narrative from 2017 to 2019: that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to hack the 2016 presidential elections.”
The suit specifically takes issue with statements made by Maddow during her show on March 18, during which she suggested that Nunes refused to turn over a package he had reportedly received from the suspected Russian agent to the FBI.
“Congressman Nunes has refused to answer questions about what he received from Andriy Derkach. He has refused to show the contents of the package to other members of the intelligence community,” the lawsuit quotes Maddow as saying on her program. “He has refused to hand it over to the FBI which is what you should do if you get something from somebody who is sanctioned by the U.S. as a Russian agent.”
Nunes and his attorneys claim that the network knew that the California lawmaker had told other reporters that he had given the package in question to the FBI and MSNBC failed to ask him for a comment.
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Over the last year, judges have tossed out three other lawsuits Nunes has filed against various media companies or social media platforms.
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Nunes sues MSNBC, alleging Rachel Maddow defamed him https://t.co/7d9bzvAboD pic.twitter.com/Sqe7y5d2gL
— The Hill (@thehill) August 4, 2021
it’s not possible to defame a guy who literally sued a fake twitter cow https://t.co/u729doIChW
— shauna (@goldengateblond) August 4, 2021
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