US EditionTrump Media Ceo Nunes Loses Defamation Lawsuit over Rachel Maddow Show
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, AUG 4 – U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel ruled Nunes failed to prove MSNBC host Rachel Maddow acted with actual malice in a defamation case over claims about a Russia-linked package.
- On Friday, August 1, 2025, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel dismissed Nunes's defamation suit against NBCUniversal over Rachel Maddow's comment, citing lack of 'actual malice'.
- In a March 18, 2021 broadcast, Rachel Maddow suggested Nunes refused to hand over a package from Derkach to the FBI.
- U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel noted there was no evidence Maddow had a `high degree of awareness of probable falsity` or acted with `actual malice` in Nunes's case.
- Neither Nunes, Trump Media, nor NBCUniversal has commented publicly since the ruling, after Nunes lost a suit against Esquire in April 2023 and failed to sue two parody accounts on X in 2020.
- Beyond the court battle, U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Andrii Derkach for election interference, and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged him with money laundering and sanctions violations.
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Trump Media CEO Nunes loses defamation lawsuit over Rachel Maddow show
A federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit by Devin Nunes, the former California congressman and now chief executive of Trump Media and Technology Group , against NBCUniversal over a comment by Rachel Maddow about his dealings with a suspected Russian agent.
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Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) hasn't been shy about filing defamation lawsuits that many legal experts consider frivolous according to the standards outlined in U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan. In April 2023, U.S. District Court Judge C.J. Williams threw out ...
Devin Nunes loses lawsuit against Comcast over comments made on MSNBC
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow delivers a report near the New York courthouse where former President Donald Trump stood trial on April 22, 2024. (Photo by SWinxy, Editing by The Desk) A federal judge has dismissed a long-running defamation lawsuit brought by former Rep. Devin Nunes of California against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and NBC Universal nearly five years after the case was initially filed. In a ruling issued last week, U.S. District Judge Kev…
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