Rep. Ted Lieu told Rep. Devin Nunes’s lawyer to “shove it” after he was threatened with a lawsuit.
The California Democrat previously said Nunes, a California Republican, sent him a letter threatening litigation if he did not apologize for accusing Nunes last month of conspiring with Lev Parnas as part of the Ukraine scandal.
On Friday, Lieu shared one page of what he said was the five-page letter threatening a lawsuit, along with his response to Nunes’s lawyer, Steven Biss. The letter from Biss is dated Dec. 31, and Lieu’s response is dated Jan. 16.
In the response, Lieu said that Nunes is “directly implicated” and that “truth is a defense.”
“I welcome any lawsuit from your client and look forward to taking discovery of Congressman Nunes,” he said. “Or, you can take your letter and shove it.”
Attached is the first page of a five page letter in which the lawyer for @DevinNunes threatens that Rep Nunes will sue me.
Attached is my response. pic.twitter.com/bWAqdRhq97
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 17, 2020
Nunes recently admitted that he now remembers a phone call with Parnas, who has been indicted on campaign finance charges and worked with President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
“I remember that call, which was very odd, random, talking about random things,” Nunes said Wednesday.
