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Fox News reports:
Secret Service agent-turned-conservative pundit Dan Bongino filed a $15 million defamation lawsuit against The Daily Beast on Tuesday for acting with “actual malice and reckless disregard for the truth” by reporting he was dropped by NRATV. “I have been in an ongoing battle for a long time now with fake news media people that just report blatantly false things about me. It gets old, folks, really old. It’s been personally exhausting,” Bongino said Tuesday on his podcast.
“It’s not a crybaby snowflake thing, it’s my fight. We all have our own fights, but The Daily Beast, a while back, wrote a story about me,” Bongino explained. “They wrote a story about me that was patently false.” The complaint, obtained by Fox News, was filed in the Southern District of Florida. The complaint calls the Beast a “digital assassin owned and controlled by billionaire Clinton-devotees, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg.”
From the lawsuit Dan Bongino filed against Daily Beast https://t.co/piH6K5x1LQ pic.twitter.com/4Z0w2f8lF4
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) December 11, 2019
Well, I’ve read Bongino’s defamation lawsuit against Daily Beast and it’s not gonna fly. He’s trying to get around pleading damages by claiming defamation per se, but the only defamatory statement he specifies doesn’t come within the category.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 11, 2019
Although, I enjoyed the degree to which Bongino’s lawyer implied that linking him to Trump in any way was defamatory.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 11, 2019
Lawyers on new Dan Bongino libel suit against Daily Beast are Steven Biss (best known for flurry of Nunes cases) and Bob Buschel (1 of Roger Stone's defense lawyers). Doc: https://t.co/EaO3GgTmLR
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) December 11, 2019
The plaintiff is represented by Devin Nunes’ lawyer, who specializes in these sorts of cases (embarrassing SLAPPs): https://t.co/oxlRB1styT https://t.co/7wYJf0Ipws
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) December 11, 2019