Devin Nunes loses again as appeals court takes down his journalist defamation lawsuit

One of President Donald Trump's most litigious associates just lost in court yet again.

According to Law & Crime, former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was handed a blow by a federal appeals court, which upheld a lower court's ruling that gave summary judgment in favor of journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines, which he sued for defamation after they reported about undocumented labor at his family's dairy farm. The lower court had ruled that the story was "substantially true."

"A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday affirmed the lower court’s ruling which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, reasoning that the former Republican congressman-turned-Truth Social CEO and his family’s dairy farm failed to provide any evidence that the article caused monetary damage," said the report.

Nunes, who now serves as CEO of President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, was previously chair of the House Intelligence Committee, where he has been accused of running cover for the first Trump administration on the Russia investigation.

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A key staffer of his, Kash Patel, wrote up memos making false accusations to undercut the FBI's work; Patel is now Trump's pick to serve as director of the FBI.

In recent years, Nunes has become notorious for harassing political critics with lawsuits.

In one of the most famous cases, he sued the creator of the parody account "Devin Nunes' Cow" on Twitter, since renamed X, that posted satirical jabs against him. He also sued The Washington Post for claiming he had been the source of allegations that Trump Tower conversations were wiretapped during the 2016 presidential election; that suit was ruled against by a judge Trump appointed.