Minority Leader Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) departs after questioning witnesses Jennifer Williams, special advisor for Europe and Russia with the office of the Vice President, and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, during a House Intelligence Committee Impeachment Inquiry hearing into President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on November 19, 2019. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday said that a defamation lawsuit from Rep. Devin Nunes, R-California, against the Washington Post and one of its reporters can move forward.
Nunes sued the newspaper last year over an article by reporter Ellen Nakashima that included a statement about the lawmaker believing that Obama administration officials spied on Trump Tower in 2016, which was later corrected. The Republican also took issue with the newspaper stating that Nunes made a “midnight run” to the Trump White House in 2017, during which he reportedly viewed intelligence filings.
