Nunes Hits CNN With $435 Million Defamation Suit Over Its Ukraine Report | Talking Points Memo

This is gonna be more embarrassing than the time Devin went and milked the bull. Every day. For a month.

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BTW, it’s worth clicking on the filing and scrolling down to page 3, which has a near full page color photo of Lev Parnas’ sadface mugshot.

For the lawyers among us, do you do this kind of thing to get the judge’s attention?

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This suit should work both ways. When he loses he should pay CNN $435M plus costs.

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Poor Devin. Moo hoo hoo.

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The family dairy farm is in Iowa and uses undocumented immigrant labor in racist Steve King’s district, as per an Esquire article. Look it up.

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If this is the article Nunes is referring to https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/politics/nunes-vienna-trip-ukrainian-prosecutor-biden/index.html, Nunes is an idiot. The core of the info in the article comes from Joseph Bondy, Lev Parnas’ lawyer.

“Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December,” said Bondy.

and

Bondy told CNN that his client and Nunes began communicating around the time of the Vienna trip. Parnas says he worked to put Nunes in touch with Ukrainians who could help Nunes dig up dirt on Biden and Democrats in Ukraine, according to Bondy.

CNN is reporting what they were told by the lawyer for a guy in the middle of the Ukraine conspiracy. Never do they say they verified the info independently, always reporting what Parnas’ lawyer says Parnas told him.

They did ask Nunes for comment and got a couple of versions of

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

There are witnesses to the issue of whether Nunes was in Vienna last year at the time specified. I’m sure they’d love to be deposed on the subject.

Congressional travel records show that Nunes and three aides traveled to Europe from November 30 to December 3, 2018. The records do not specify that Nunes and his staff went to Vienna or Austria, and Nunes was not required to disclose the exact details of the trip.

Nunes’ entourage included retired colonel Derek Harvey,…

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I know. And Moosie-noons sued Esquire for that back in October. Only $75 mil, though.

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Depends. But when you client is claiming CNN botched a story about him, maybe don’t allege (along with an accompany tweet/video) that he’s been refusing to answer CNN’s questions (the answers to which could ostensibly clear his name) since the Spring of 2017 (pg. 43).

Also, maybe don’t put an earthlink email address in the signature block if you want to look like a real lawyer…

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A lot of moo-lah? Yeah, I’ll milk that joke, and that’s no bull.

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File an Answer, schedule a deposition and put this moo-ther fucker under oath.

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This reads like a screed or manifesto a psychologically disturbed individual would write before setting out on some sort of suicide mission. Either that or a Trump attorney.

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The amount is curious. Maybe CNN should counter sue for $900 trillion gazillion. Makes as much sense.

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Why not go all in?

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In frivolous lawsuits such as this one doesn’t the plaintiff have to pay court costs? This suit is the apotheosis of frivolous.
I also think that Nunes should remember what happened to Oscar Wilde when he sued the Marquis of Queensberry and his loss led to his incarceration in Reading Gaol. It’s dangerous to assume that your opponents’ lawyers are stupid

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Steven Biss has been disbarred, then reinstated.

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A question directed not at @occamscoin but more generally, from a little person who actually pays taxes:

If I raise $900,000 to pay legal fees for a frivolous law suit that I instigated, is that taxable income? Asking for Devin’s Cow.

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Yes! Discovery’s gonna be lit!

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My response is a simple one …

Moo.

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Just waiting for CNN to announce they’ve made an arrangement with the House Intelligence Committee to participate in discovery!

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It’s how you tell when the clerks and paras have been drinking, then gambling on whether or not you’ll leave it in.

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