'Shove it,' Rep. Ted Lieu tells GOP colleague Devin Nunes in response to lawsuit threat

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/17/ted-lieu-devin-nunes-shove-it/



The politicians’ dueling played out, as it almost always does these days, largely on Twitter and cable TV.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D) alleged in December that fellow California Rep. Devin Nunes (R) conspired with Lev Parnas, a former associate of President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, to undermine the United States. Parnas has pleaded not guilty to violating campaign finance laws.

Then a lawyer for Nunes, who is the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, sent a multi-page missive threatening to sue for damage to Nunes’s reputation, Lieu tweeted. The Democratic congressman replied with a letter of his own and posted a photo of the document online.

“I welcome any lawsuit from your client and look forward to taking discovery of Congressman Nunes,” he wrote. “Or, you can take your letter and shove it.”

On MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Friday, Lieu doubled down. “It turns out that based on text messages in the record and the amazing interview on [MSNBC’s] Rachel Maddow Show that I’m right,” he said. “Truth is a defense.”

It's about time someone told GOP to shove it. Nunes is even suing whoever is posting on twitter as his cow.

[PJMcK]

1. Threats of lawsuits are usually toothless

Either file the suit or shut up.

The threat is meaningless unless the plaintiff is willing to go the whole nine yards. Nunes won't do that. He's wishing that Ted Lieu will be so afraid of a legal action that he'll back down.

Right out of Trump's playbook.

Good for Representative Lieu for standing up to Nunes and his lawyer.

Shove it, Devin.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. And since the KGB is rigging the voting machines right now, ...sigh

I hope Ted and others are prepared for that, dont know what to do...but I can promise you they are doing that.

I love Ted, by the way...but we are in big trouble...

[dem4decades]

3. Nunes would be the first person to lose a lawsuit to a cow.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Challenge accepted. Now put your money where your mouth is.

[a kennedy]

5. Love him.....and I know people that could take care of the problem.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. A big, fat K&R!

[VOX]

7. Nunes' hot seat is getting warmer.

Enjoy your fried ass, you litigious POS.