WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 12: Ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) (L) and Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) (R) listen during a hearing before the House (Select) Intelligence Committee June 12, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on "Lessons from the Mueller Report: Counterintelligence Implications of Volume 1." (Image: Getty)
Rep. Devin Nunes (R–California) has sued CNN for a whopping $435 million over a damning report that he had met the former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in Vienna last December. Nunes disputed the report, telling the right-wing news site Breitbart that the story was “demonstrably false and scandalous.”
Nunes has stated in his lawsuit that CNN has to be held to account for its “hit piece” on him. “CNN is the mother of fake news,” the lawsuit says. “It is the least trusted name. CNN is eroding the fabric of America, proselytizing, sowing distrust and disharmony.” The lawsuit has not yet elicited a response from CNN.
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CNN reported in November that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s business associate Lev Parnas claimed that Nunes met Shokin last December in Vienna to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden is a leading opponent of President Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. elections.
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