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Rep. Devin Nunes files $77-million lawsuit, alleging Iowa farm story defamed himAssociated Press OCT. 3, 2019 4:59 PM
DES MOINES Central Valley Rep. Devin Nunes has filed yet another lawsuit against a major media organization, claiming he was defamed in a magazine story about his familys Iowa dairy farm.
Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, filed the $77.5-million lawsuit Monday in federal court in Iowa against Esquire publisher Hearst Magazines and former reporter Ryan Lizza. It alleges a Sept. 30, 2018, story about the farm has caused injury to his good name and professional reputation.
Nunes has gone after other media outlets in court, filing similar lawsuits this year against Twitter and newspaper publisher McClatchy Co.
In the latest lawsuit, Nunes repeatedly refers to the Esquire story by Lizza, titled Devin Nuness Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret, as a hit piece.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-03/devin-nunes-lawsuit-iowa-dairy-farm-story-defamation
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2naSalit
(86,802 posts)he has no "good name" because everyone can smell the stench on his shit.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)... Nunes grew up in a family of dairy farmers in Tulare, California, and as long as he has been in politics, his family dairy has been central to his identity and a feature of every major political profile written about him. A March story in National Review is emblematic. It describes how Nuness family emigrated from the Azores in Portugal to Californias Central Valley, a fertile, sunny Eden, and how the family worked and saved enough money to buy a 640-acre farm outside Tulare. The soil of the Central Valley is depicted as almost sacred in these articles. National Review quotes a 1912 Portuguese immigrant farmer who wrote that when he grabs a clump of dirt, I feel as if I had just shaken hands with all my ancestors. As recently as July 27, the lead of a Wall Street Journal editorial-page piece about Nunes, which featured a Tulare dateline, emphasized the dairy: Its 105 degrees as I stand with Rep. Devin Nunes on his familys dairy farm. Last year, Nunes noted in an interview with the Daily Beastheadline: The Dairy Farmer Overseeing U.?S. Spies and the Russia Hack InvestigationIm pretty simple. I like agriculture. The Daily Beast noted, The cows are not far from his mind. He keeps in regular contact with his brother and father about their dairy farm.
So heres the secret: The Nunes family dairy of political lorethe one where his brother and parents workisnt in California. Its in Iowa. Devin; his brother, Anthony III; and his parents, Anthony Jr. and Toni Dian, sold their California farmland in 2006. Anthony Jr. and Toni Dian, who has also been the treasurer of every one of Devins campaigns since 2001, used their cash from the sale to buy a dairy eighteen hundred miles away in Sibley, a small town in northwest Iowa where theyas well as Anthony III, Devins only sibling, and his wife, Lorihave lived since 2007. Devins uncle Gerald still owns a dairy back in Tulare, which is presumably where The Wall Street Journals reporter talked to Devin, and Devin is an investor in a Napa Valley winery, Alpha Omega, but his immediate familys farmas well as his familyis long gone.
Theres nothing particularly strange about a congressmans family moving. But what is strange is that the family has apparently tried to conceal the move from the publicfor more than a decade. As far as I could tell, until late August, neither Nunes nor the local California press that covers him had ever publicly mentioned that his family dairy is no longer in Tulare ...
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23471864/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california/
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23471864/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california/
Timmygoat
(779 posts)Why was Nunes lurking in the bushes that night at the White House, I think he must have a mental problem.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)and professional reputation?