Devin Nunes Sues The Wind!

Devin Nunes sues critics.

The morons run Washington, DC. Last month, the California Republican who badgered Hillary Clinton for her emails is being mocked online. Now he's threatening to sue critics of publications and private individuals for calling him a bullshit artist.

This is a public official who is likely going to be mocked. I mean they disrespect Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) without any regard for the consequences.

I mock Sean Hannity for being a softball. He is a public figure.

Donald J. Trump gets mocked constantly. Despite his threats, he knows he can't sue anyone who parodies him, mocks him or attacks him personally. So you can go after his family, his allies, his waistline, his hair, his god awful tan. The only thing you can't do is threaten him, Mike Pence, their families or any U.S. federal worker elected or serving on the bench. You could get up to 25 in federal time out if you threaten a federal worker.

In the wake of Nick Sandmann suing The Washington Post, CNN and possibly Kathy Griffin for criticism of him during the infamous stare down of a Native American elder, here comes California Republican Devin Nunes.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is the guy who spent two years protecting Donald J. Trump from the Robert Mueller probe. He often appears on Fox News for a little softball. He appears on Sean "Softball" Hannity's primetime circus.

The lawmaker sues Twitter for $250 million after folks made parody accounts of him.

The lawsuit is ridiculous.

I talked to my attorney last night. The lawsuit can be expensive, but I’m determined to fight it. Devin should not be allowed to stop free speech. Can you please help me? Thank you 💗🐮 https://t.co/I9Ko944Ptr

— Devin Nunes’ cow (@DevinCow) March 28, 2019

Trump: “Devin Nunes is someday going to be hailed as a great American hero.”

Also Trump: "And when you're talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over."https://t.co/E3ArVgNjva

— Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom (@NunesAlt) March 28, 2019

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— Anita Wall (@Robertz009) March 30, 2019

Nunes said in an interview with the softball that rather than being an example of excessive litigiousness, his complaint is intended to be "the first of many" such lawsuits against social media platforms. He argued that Twitter is the "main proliferator" of "slanderous" news and even added that he considered his lawsuit part of the Russia investigation.

Nunes' complaint might never get to the judgment phase and will most likely not result in a $250 million payout for Nunes and his actual, not-a-fake-Twitter-account mother. But that's not the point. To the California Republican and his allies, social media platforms have been far too unfair to conservative and right-leaning users. And now, Nunes argues, it's time to fight back — in court.

The 40-page complaint filed on Monday, Nunes argues that tweets like that and the two parody Twitter accounts were not merely examples of Twitter being Twitter. Rather, he argues that the social media platform served as "a portal of defamation" by permitting parody accounts of his mother and his imaginary bovine to exist on the platform. Moreover, he says that the purpose of those parody accounts was to "influence the outcome of the 2018 Congressional election and to intimidate [him] and interfere with his important investigation of corruption by the Clinton campaign and alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential Election."

In his claims against Liz Mair, the Republican strategist also targeted in the complaint, Nunes argues that Mair "harbored spite, ill-will, actual malice, and a demonstrated desire to injure Nunes' good name and reputation" by, for example, publicly referencing a winery partly owned by Nunes that is now enmeshed in legal problems, and by referring to Nunes as "Dirty Devin" on Twitter.