Nunes Sues CNN Over “Demonstrably False” Report During Impeachment Hearings

• Nunes Sues CNN Over “Demonstrably False” Report During Impeachment Hearings
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Rep. Devin Nunes has sued CNN for defamation after the outlet alleged he met with a fired Ukrainian prosecutor in an attempt to obtain information that would be harmful to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, according to the Washington Examiner‘s Byron York.
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  CNN claimed in a Nov. 22 article entitled that Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, traveled to Vienna in Dec. 2018 to meet with Viktor Shokin – the former Ukrainian prosecutor who claims he was fired for investigating then-US Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
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  The “demonstrably false” report was based on allegations by Joseph Bondy, the attorney for Ukrainian-born Lev Parnas – who was heavily involved in efforts by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to get to the bottom of alleged meddling in the 2016 US election, along with corruption allegations against the Bidens.
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  CNN reported that Bondy said Parnas was “willing to tell Congress” that in December 2018, Nunes traveled to Vienna to meet with Viktor Shokin, the top Ukrainian prosecutor who was famously fired in 2016 under pressure from the U.S., represented by Biden, who said Shokin did not do enough to prosecute corruption in Ukraine. CNN cited congressional travel records showing Nunes and a few aides traveled to Europe between November 30 and December 3, 2018.
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  Quoting Bondy, the CNN report said: “Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December.”
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  Shortly after the report was published, Nunes said it was “demonstrably false,” but declined to elaborate. In the lawsuit, Nunes has provided the details.
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  Nunes did travel between Nov. 30 and Dec. 3. The lawsuit says that on those dates, Nunes was in Libya and Malta. Nunes traveled to Libya to “discuss security issues with General Khalifa Haftar,” the suit says. In Malta, Nunes “met with U.S. and Maltese officials, including Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, and participated in a repatriation ceremony for the remains of an American World War II soldier missing in action,” according to the suit.
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  The lawsuit provides photos of Nunes with Haftar, with Muscat, and at the repatriation ceremony. –Washington Examiner
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