Delicate flower Fredo Nunes files another defamation lawsuit.

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Rep. Devin Nunes files $77-million lawsuit, alleging Iowa farm story defamed him

Associated 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 family’s 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 Nunes’s 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]

1. Except...

he has no "good name" because everyone can smell the stench on his shit.

[struggle4progress]

2. Devin Nunes's Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret

... 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 Nunes’s family emigrated from the Azores in Portugal to California’s 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: “It’s 105 degrees as I stand with Rep. Devin Nunes on his family’s dairy farm.” Last year, Nunes noted in an interview with the Daily Beast—headline: “The Dairy Farmer Overseeing U.?S. Spies and the Russia Hack Investigation”—“I’m 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 here’s the secret: The Nunes family dairy of political lore—the one where his brother and parents work—isn’t in California. It’s 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 Devin’s 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 they—as well as Anthony III, Devin’s only sibling, and his wife, Lori—have lived since 2007. Devin’s uncle Gerald still owns a dairy back in Tulare, which is presumably where The Wall Street Journal’s reporter talked to Devin, and Devin is an investor in a Napa Valley winery, Alpha Omega, but his immediate family’s farm—as well as his family—is long gone.

There’s nothing particularly strange about a congressman’s family moving. But what is strange is that the family has apparently tried to conceal the move from the public—for 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]

3. I have forgotten

Why was Nunes lurking in the bushes that night at the White House, I think he must have a mental problem.

[SoCalNative]

4. What good name

and professional reputation?