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. AD“I welcome any lawsuit from your client and look forward to taking discovery of Congressman Nunes,” he wrote. “Truth is a defense.”Lieu, Nunes and Steven Biss, the attorney who said he was representing Nunes in the letter tweeted by Lieu, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday night. “I just didn’t know the name — this name ‘Par-nas,’ ” Nunes said. Parnas claimed that Nunes was “involved” in pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

Source: Washington Post January 18, 2020 03:18 UTC