‘Simply made a mistake’: Devin Nunes’ defamation suit against the Washington Post over Trump Tower wiretapping claims rejected after years of court fights

Devin Nunes

Former Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., applauds in the audience as former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes, the Republican former U.S. representative for California, failed in his yearslong efforts to sue the Washington Post for defamation over a 2020 article that said he backed the Donald Trump-amplified notion that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower, a now unsealed opinion shows.

The opinion from U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, is dated June 14, but the docket reviewed by Law&Crime shows that there were some lingering questions about whether redactions were needed. On June 24, having heard the “parties’ representation that no redactions are necessary,” the judge ordered the opinion unsealed, and now it has been.

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