Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has aggressively gone after his critics with defamation lawsuits — five of which are still active— targeting Twitter, CNN, McClatchy, a Republican political strategist, satirical social media accounts, and others. But as local paper The Fresno Bee reported on Saturday, it’s unclear where Nunes is getting the funding for these lawsuits.
It noted that while Nunes himself seems to largely live on his salary as a Congressman, and his wife is a school teacher, he appears to have no trouble affording multiple high-profile lawsuits that likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The one lawsuit that he has already dropped after a few weeks, which Nunes brought against a man who accused him of being a “fake farmer,” cost $3,400, according to Federal Election Commission records cited by the outlet.