[FOXNEWS] Kash Patel, the chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, has filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against CNN
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and several of its top news hounds, claiming the liberal network published false statements and promoted "unfounded left-wing political narratives" by painting Patel as a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist seeking to smear President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
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The complaint filed on Friday in Virginia Circuit Court named CNN news hounds Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen, Ryan Browne, Alex Marquardt and Nicole Gaouette as defendants, in addition to the network itself. It claims CNN "deliberately or recklessly conveyed a false message" to sensationalize the "news" and humiliate Patel.
Patel, who was previously a top aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and a Trump advisor, claims CNN published a series of articles from Nov. 24 through Dec. 4 penned by the defendants that "contain a series of false and defamatory statements" about him, according to the complaint.
The complaint says defamatory statements in the articles include, "Trump loyalist connected to Biden conspiracy theories is leading Pentagon transition," "Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist, ... was connected to efforts to spread conspiracy theories about Joe Biden," Kash "has also worked to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election," "Pentagon blocked Biden’s intelligence transition team from meeting with agencies," and "Defense Department transition office ... is led by a Trump loyalist connected to efforts to spread conspiracy theories about the President-elect," among other similar examples.
Patel’s legal team said CNN retaliated against him because he helped poke holes in the network’s narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia before the 2016 election.
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Patel’s attorney, Steven S. Biss, argued "publication of the Defamatory Statements is part of a general pattern of retaliation and discrimination against Kash" and "a larger conspiracy undertaken between 2018 and the present to discredit Kash through the publication of false statements and the promotion of unfounded left-wing political narratives."
Kash "uncovered many inconvenient facts undermining the fake political narrative about ’collusion’ between members of the Trump campaign and ’Russians,’" when he was counsel for Nunes, then-chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the complaint claims.
"CNN attacked Kash and published defamatory falsehoods about him because CNN was deeply invested in promoting the Russia collusion hoax and the fraudulent "dossier" manufactured by Fusion GPS for the Crooked Hillary Clinton
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campaign and the Democratic National Committee," Bliss wrote. "Kash debunked CNN’s reporting... CNN’s latest brutal attack on Kash’s reputation in the Articles is a continuation of past smear campaigns to discredit Kash." 
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