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.

Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes loses defamation suit over Rachel Maddow claims - ‘No reasonable jury could find’ that Rachel Maddow engaged in ‘constitutionally-defined actual malice,’ a federal judge ru

T rump Media CEO Devin Nunes, who once unsuccessfully sued a social media account for mocking him from his cow’s point of view, has lost his defamation lawsuit against lesbian MSNBC News host Rachel Maddow. The judge threw the case out because he said “no reasonable jury could find” Maddow liable for defamation under its legal definition.

A federal judge has dismissed former Republican California U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes’s defamation lawsuit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and NBCUniversal, ruling the network did not act with “actual malice” in reporting that Nunes refused to turn over a package from a sanctioned Russian agent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A federal judge says Comcast and NBC Universal would likely prevail on First Amendment grounds if the case went to a jury trial as demanded.