Barr's Justice Department Launched Secret Attack on Trump Ally's Twitter Critic - 2021-05-17
Barr's Justice Department Launched Secret Attack on Trump Ally's Twitter Critic May 17, 2021,
Of all the extraordinarily hackish maneuvers Bill Barr's Justice Department undertook to protect Donald Trump, perhaps the most hackish was not revealed until Monday afternoon. According to a newly unsealed court document, Barr's DOJ obtained a grand jury request to expose the author of a Twitter account that had mocked Republican congressman Devin Nunes.
Nunes was the head of the House Intelligence Committee, a fanatical defender of Trump throughout various scandals, and an enthusiastic litigant. Nunes believes that his critics in the media should be shut down or forced to pay him lavish sums for their effrontery, and has filed, or threatened to file, a series of lawsuits against publications including Esquire, the Fresno Bee, and Twitter.
It is almost impossible to convey how amateurish Nunes's legal claims are. He believes he can sue Twitter over the existence of parody accounts mocking him, including one called "Devin Nunes' Cow," on the principle that the fake cow has said hurtful things about him and this somehow is not allowed.