I was a fake account in the name of David's mom.
Now he is suing Fakebook and I totally agree with him!
There is a limit for everything in life.
He's also suing The McClatchy Company and Liz Mair in state court in Virginia, for defamation and requesting $150 million in damages. The Complaint, which is embedded below, is fun to read. For example, footnote 1:
McClatchy is well-known for publishing false stories meant to advance the false narrative that associates of Donald J. Trump colluded with Russia to hack the 2016 presidential election.
McClatchy’s outrageous lies about Cleta Mitchell and the NRA get a reference:
Throughout 2018, McClatchy published false stories to stoke the Russian “collusion” narrative. In addition to stories about Cohen and Prague, McClatchy attacked Cleta Mitchell, an attorney who represented the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) for years. McClatchy completely fabricated a story that Ms. Mitchell had “concerns about [the NRA’s] ties to Russia and its possible involvement in channeling Russian funds into the 2016 elections to help Donald Trump.” … McClatchy’s hit pieces on Cohen, Mitchell and Nunes clearly demonstrate that McClatchy was an active participant in a calculated and concerted political operation, using information taken from a for-pay opposition research firm (Fusion GPS), for the sole purpose of furthering the Russian “collusion” narrative.
But those are just collateral observations. The centerpiece of Nunes’s defamation claim is McClatchy’s effort to tie him to a “fundraiser” that featured cocaine and underage girls:
The only purpose of McClatchy’s story was to put Congressman Nunes’s name in a headline along with the words “yacht,” “cocaine,” “prostitutes” and “fundraiser.” In fact, he had nothing to do with the episode.
The incident happened in 2015 and was reported then, but McClatchy’s Fresno Bee made a major story of it in 2018, apparently in hopes of defeating Nunes in his re-election bid.
I figure Nunes filed suit to open discovery.