Devin Nunes is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore. On Tuesday he filed a 435 million dollar lawsuit against CNN for claiming he went to Vienna in late 2018 to meet with former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
Shokin is the prosecutor that Joe Biden got fired in a quid pro Joe deal.
Nunes says that he never went to Vienna in loate 2018 for any reason, let alone to meet with Shokin.
Normally it is difficult if not impossible for a public figure to sue for defamation but allegedly the case his lawyers laid out in their filing shows that CNN did not do due diligence before publishing a story that is demonstrably false.
Several celebrities including the First Lady have successfully sued over false stories over the past couple of years.
Nunes was able to provide ample proof that he was never in Vienna and never met Shokin before in his life.
The Washington Times interviewed Shokin who didn’t even know who Devin Nunes is.
Nunes is also preparing a lawsuit against The Daily Best over the same story.
On the second page of Nunes’s 47-page lawsuit against CNN, he addresses a number of the factual inaccuracies in CNN’s reporting. First, the claim that Nunes was in Vienna last year–which CNN dutifully reported on behalf of its compromised source–is untrue. Nunes was not in Vienna.
“Devin Nunes did not go to Vienna or anywhere else in Austria in 2018,” Nunes’s lawsuit states on page two. “Between November 30, 2018 and December 3, 2018, Devin Nunes visited Benghazi, Libya on official business of the House Intelligence Committee to discuss security issues with General Khalifa Haftar.
Devin Nunes also traveled to Malta, where he met with U.S. and Maltese officials, including Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, and participated in repatriation ceremony for the remains of an American World War II Soldier missing in action.”
The CNN piece’s claim that Nunes met with ousted Ukrainian prosecutor Victor Shokin is also untrue.
Shokin is a significant figure in that he was the prosecutor general in Ukraine that then Vice President Joe Biden pushed Ukraine to fire in exchange for U.S. taxpayer aid money, an actual quid pro quo that Biden has readily admitted on television, which has the appearance of corruption swirling around it given that Shokin’s office was investigating Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings.
Burisma, at the time, was paying Biden’s son Hunter Biden more than $50,000 a month to sit on the company’s board. So, nonetheless, it would have been newsworthy had Nunes met with Shokin.
