Devin Nunes Sues CNN for $435 Million-Plus in Defamation Suit

GOP congressman calls Nov. 22 story about ties to Ukraine scandal a “hit piece”

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes
Ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes at the impeachment hearings on November 19, 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin / Getty Images)

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has sued CNN for over $435 million in a defamation suit filed on Tuesday in Virginia.

The 47-page lawsuit opened by calling CNN “the mother of fake news” that was “eroding the fabric of America” and claimed that the network published a “demonstrably false hit piece” about Nunes on Nov. 22. The article reported that Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas was willing to testify that Nunes had met with a former top Ukrainian prosecutor last year in Vienna to “discuss digging up dirt on Joe Biden.” (Nunes had “declined repeated requests for comment” for the piece.)

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