Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes, who once unsuccessfully sued a social media account for mocking him from his cows 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.Nunes sued Maddow over an untrue accusation that she repeated on the March 2021 broadcast of The Rachel Maddow Show. In the broadcast, she repeated a claim, first made by Politico, that Nunes refused to give the FBI a package that he received from Ukrainian businessman Andrii Derkach, a suspected Russian agent. Related Rachel Maddow plays sad trombone while mocking Trump for the failure of his latest corrupt venture Womp Womp At the time, Nunes was serving as a Republican U.S. House member from California. Maddow said, [Nunes] refused to hand it over to the FBI, which is what you should do if you get something from somebody who is sanctioned by the U.S. as a Russian agent. However, Nunes said that he had promptly given the package to the FBI.Maddows producers said that she was citing a July 2020 Politico article, which said that Nunes had declined repeated requests for comment on the matter, but added, one person familiar with the matter said the information was not turned over to the FBI, The Independent reported. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today But Nunes sued Maddow after the broadcast, claiming that she had deliberately ignored other news reports that said that he had given the package to the FBI. Nunes said that Maddow and MSNBC had an institutional hostility, hatred, extreme bias, spite and ill-will towards him that compelled its coverage.However, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel dismissed the lawsuit on Monday, saying that Nunes failed to prove Maddow acted with actual malice, an additional criterion necessary to prove defamation against a public figure in a civil court. Castel said Nunes had failed to present evidence that Maddow was aware of the probable falsityof her claim, and that her and her networks political bias caused defendant to act with a reckless disregard of the truth pertaining to him. Castel ruled that no reasonable jury could find that Maddow engaged in constitutionally-defined actual malice. However, The Independent noted that Derkach, the man who provided the package to Nunes, was sanctionedby the U.S. Treasury Department in September 2020 for attempting to interfere on Donald Trumps behalf in that years presidential election.This isnt Nunes first failed lawsuit. In March 2019, he filed a lawsuit against a parody social media account @DevinCow, claiming that the account and Twitter (which is now X) were facilitating a vicious defamation campaign against him by allowing the account to operate.The account used crude humor to accuse Nunes of criminal behavior and made numerous cow-related puns including, Devins boots are full of manure and Hes udder-ly worthless and its pasture time to move him to prison.A Virginia judge dismissed the lawsuit, citing the parody account operators right to free speech and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects social media companies from any legal liability for content posted by users. The lawsuit backfired on Nunes, bringing notoriety to the account and leading it to eventually amass more followers than Nunes social media accounts.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.