A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit filed by Devin Nunes—former congressman and current CEO of Trump Media—against NBCUniver
A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit filed by Devin Nunes—former congressman and current CEO of Trump Media—against NBCUniversal over a comment made by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
The case centered on something Maddow said during a March 2021 episode of The Rachel Maddow Show. She told viewers that Nunes “refused to hand it over to the FBI, which is what you should do if you get something from somebody who is sanctioned by the U.S. as a Russian agent.” Maddow was referring to a package Nunes received in 2019 from Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian politician tied to Russian intelligence.
The Truth Social parent company's shake-up comes after years of losses and a struggling stock price.
Devin Nunes, the GOP ex-House member who once sued a cartoon cow and lost, has been fired as CEO of the company that runs Trump's failing Truth Social platform. SAD!
Trump Media & Technology Group, the Truth Social parent company whose largest shareholder is Trump, said in a statement Tuesday that Nunes would be succeeded by Kevin McGurn, an adviser to the company, who will take over as interim CEO effective immediately. It did not offer a reason for Nunes’ unexpected departure.
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Best known for Truth Social, the president’s preferred online megaphone and a critical source of advertising dollars for the company, Trump Media has announced a series of pivots over the last year in a push to expand its business.
That includes into everything from cryptocurrencies and the prediction markets to traditional financial products.
Crypto is dodgy and prediction markets are subject to manipulation by insiders who are aware ahead of time of government actions. Obviously great opportunities for Trump grift.
As of last night, the stock for DJT:NASDAQ as it's traded had declined in value by 56.34% in the past year.
We remember that some people voted for Trump because they claimed he was a business genius. 🤣 😆 😝
If you ever need to mention Trump's platform, always refer to it as Trump's failing Truth Social platform.
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Devin Nunes sued the award-winning MSNBC host in 2021, when he was still a member of Congress.
Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:
A federal judge has dismissed former Republican California U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes’s defamation lawsuit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and NBCUniversal, ruling the network did not act with “actual malice” in reporting that Nunes refused to turn over a package from a sanctioned Russian agent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In a 24-page opinion issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel granted summary judgment to NBCUniversal, writing that “no reasonable jury could find that NBCU made the statement with constitutionally-defined actual malice.”
Nunes, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump and chief executive officer of his social media company, filed the lawsuit in 2021 after an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show aired a segment about a package addressed to Nunes from Ukrainian legislator Andrii Derkach. Derkach was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2020 for acting as a Russian agent and attempting to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
Maddow told viewers that Nunes “has refused to hand [the package] over to the FBI, which is what you should do if you get something from somebody who is sanctioned by the U.S. as a Russian agent,” relying on a news story by Politico.
According to court documents, Nunes and members of his staff testified that the package was turned over to the FBI on the same day it was received. Nunes also sent a letter to then-Attorney General William Barr advising him of the package’s arrival.
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Castel rejected Nunes’s arguments that Maddow and MSNBC distorted the Politico reporting and ignored other news stories that stated the package had been appropriately handled. According to the ruling, Maddow and Gnazzo said they were not aware of a follow-up article quoting a fellow Republican lawmaker saying the package had been turned over to the FBI.
Nunes also argued that Maddow’s long history of criticizing him, identifying 36 episodes in which she discussed him by name, proved personal bias. But Castel wrote that “bare assertions of bias are insufficient” and found no evidence that the statement at issue was published with a “high degree of awareness of ... probable falsity.”
“In context, Maddow’s reference to Nunes as an ‘easier hit’ refers to Maloney’s information that there was a package receipt for the delivery to Nunes from Derkach, which provided ready support for part of the claim,” Castel wrote, referencing Rep. Sean Maloney’s comments during a prior MSNBC interview.
Judge Kevin Castel dismisses Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes’s frivolous lawsuit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and NBCUniversal. MSNBC is currently owned by NBCU, but is set to be part of the Versant spinoff.
Tulsi Gabbard is bad but what about the Putin sex doll Devin Nunes, the man Trump appointed as Chair of his Intelligence Advisory Board?
"In March 2017, the U.S. House intelligence committee, which Nunes chaired at the time, launched an investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. In February 2018, Nunes publicly released a four-page memorandum alleging an FBI conspiracy against Trump. Nunes subsequently began an investigation of the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly abusing their powers in an attempt to hurt Trump.[3][4] In January 2021, Trump awarded Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[5]"
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