Devin Nunes Sues Reporter And Magazine For $75M

Courthouse News reports:

California Representative Devin Nunes asked a federal court in Iowa Monday to award him $75 million in damages in a defamation and common law conspiracy suit against reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines.

The House Republican and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence claims in the suit that Lizza defamed him in a Sept. 30, 2018, article he wrote for Esquire titled “Devin Nunes’s Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret.”

“The Lizza Hit Piece ascribes and imputes to Plaintiff conduct, characteristics and conditions, including dishonesty, deception, lying, conspiracy, corruption, bias, lack of integrity and ethics, that would adversely affect his fitness to be a United States Congressman and/or businessperson,” the 25-page complaint states.

There’s so much more to the lawsuit at the link. If you haven’t read the original Esquire piece from last year, it’s really something.

Nunes is already suing Twitter for $250 million and the McClatchy newspaper group for $150 million. That’s a grand total of $475 million in lawsuits. So far.