A federal judge ruled against former congressman Devin Nunes in his long-running defamation suit against the Washington Post.
District judge Carl Nichols found that Nunes, a Republican former lawmaker and now CEO of Trump Media, could not prove actual malice by the newspaper when one of its reporters wrote that he had been the source of claims about wiretapping at Trump Tower during the 2016 election.
"Even in March 2017, there was significant doubt about certain of Nunes’s claims concerning surveillance of the Trump campaign," the judge wrote. "Although Nunes had not claimed (baselessly) that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower, he did suggest (baselessly) that he had received his information from a whistleblower and that the Trump White House was not aware of it."
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The Post issued a correction to the article originally written by reporter Ellen Nakashima, saying the report had inaccurately attributed the claim to Nunes and that he did not believe any wiretapping had taken place.
Nunes objected to the correction, which also stated that he believed that "intelligence files" could provide evidence to support the former president's claims about alleged wiretapping.
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