Thread by @LawsuitsDevin

I’ve got some #DevinNunes lawsuit news, + if you live for that you should be following @kateirby at @FresnoBee! Here’s her story on Nunes’ former aide #KashyapPatel’s suit against @politico and @NatashaBertrand. $25M defamation, same lawyer as Nunes’ suits
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There’s lot of great detail in Irby’s piece, including that Kashyap “Kash” Patel is ***the author of the infamous “Nunes Memo”***. That shouldn’t surprise anyone that #DevinNunes, notorious for not reading any materials, couldn’t have written a conclusion on what they said.

This earlier tweet links to the @foxnews piece that first alerted Irby to the Patel lawsuit. Plenty to ruminate over in both pieces.

Like the pointless Nunes suits, they’re filed in VA despite the lack of a connection to any of the parties. Little on legal merit, plenty bombast.

https://twitter.com/LawsuitsDevin/status/1196626150799265797

Here’s some more info on #DevinNunes and #KashyapPatel’s attorney, written by the awesome @kateirby. This guy is pretty on-brand for these 2 bad-faith dealers.

Of course he’s been suspended. Of course. Twice, for a year, then 30 days. + Reprimanded!

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#KashyapPatel, the former #DevinNunes staffer, is in the news for his alleged involvement in #UkraineExtortion story. #Vindman testified #FionaHill told him he couldn’t brief Trump on Ukraine, despite being the expert, as Trump thought Patel was the Ukraine guy.

So Patel sued.

Because of the #SpeechAndDebateClause he can’t sue anyone in Congress. But he can sue almost anyone else so he went after @Politico + its owner, + author @NatashaBertrand, but the real purpose was to get his attacks on @RepAdamSchiff out there.

It’s very very #DevinNunes.

Here’s the actual lawsuit.

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The #KashyapPatel lawsuit dives right into invective from the beginning. You can smell the bad faith on its breath.

One wonders how #KashyapPatel, former #DevinNunes toady, plans to prove any of these malicious statements. He’s claiming Politico/Bertrand did so with malice. This is straight from #BadFaithRepublican playbook: accuse your enemy of what you are committing at the exact same time.

These clowns always self-discredit. Here #KashyapPatel runs on for 2.5 pages of all the very serious, vital, important work he’s done for various parts of the US Government defending national security.

Pro-tip: if you call yourself brilliant, trusted, expert... you’re not.

Learn something new every day. The far-too-centrist for most tastes @MSNBC is “far-left.”

I doubt #KashyapPatel the #DevinNunes toady has a clue what’s “extreme far-left,” but MSNBC ain’t it. If they were, @JoeNBC and the execrable @chucktodd wouldn’t have jobs there.

Did #PatCippollone help craft this suit? It’s got a similar vibe of aggrieved rage with nothing based in actual legal grounds.

Bonus: Completely #DevinNunesIsAnIdiot-style mention of the nude Trump photos story. This discredits Nunes’ claim that Schiff sought the photos.

Ohai @NunesAlt.

Plenty of #DevinNunes mentions in this lawsuit. I suspect Steven Biss reused a lot of material from some of the suits he already filed. And clearly #KashyapPatel has hurt feefees for being tied to Nunes by @Politico.

I could keep chewing my cud through this but I’ve reached my limit. I’ll leave with this thought: #KashyapPatel the #DevinNunes toady ran on for 2 and a half pages about all his awarded government service, but claims he can sue as a “private individual.”

#BadFaithRepublicans