Dan Bongino has had enough of the Daily Beast defaming him and is suing them for a ton of cash:
FOX NEWS – Secret Service agent-turned-conservative pundit Dan Bongino filed a $15 million defamation lawsuit against The Daily Beast on Tuesday for acting with “actual malice and reckless disregard for the truth” by reporting he was dropped by NRATV.
“I have been in an ongoing battle for a long time now with fake news media people that just report blatantly false things about me. It gets old, folks, really old. It’s been personally exhausting,” Bongino said Tuesday on his podcast.
“It’s not a crybaby snowflake thing, it’s my fight. We all have our own fights, but The Daily Beast, a while back, wrote a story about me,” Bongino explained. “They wrote a story about me that was patently false.”
The complaint says the Beast “falsely” stated that Bongino was fired by NRA TV despite the news organization having proof of the contrary. The document includes a text message from Markay in which he said to Bongino, “Heard you didn’t renew with NRATV?”
“As evidenced by his texts, Markay knew that NRA TV had not ‘dropped’ Plaintiff,” according to the complaint.
“Markay knew the truth — that Plaintiff had simply decided not to renew his contract,” the complaint says. “Rather, than report the truth as told to Markay by his source, Daily Beast deliberately misrepresented that NRATV fired Plaintiff and terminated his show.”
Here’s how Bongino described what happened on his podcast:
Bongino, a Fox News contributor, explained that a December 2018 report by Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Markay said he was “dropped” by NRATV, which is a “euphemism for being fired,” but the conservative pundit says the story was false.
“The author of the story texted me that he had heard from sources the opposite — the opposite was the true story — that I did not renew my contract,” Bongino said. “I was offered to stay, I was not dropped. I did not return by choice, I left… that story was false.”
“I gave them the opportunity multiple times, asked them on Twitter to correct it — they refused,” he added. “I gave them an opportunity via text recently to correct it. They refused. We are suing The Daily Beast for $15 million.”
The Daily Beast and Markay did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“There is only one way to make these people pay and that… we have to use the legal system and do it the right way,” Bongino said. “This is really disgusting… They picked on the wrong guy. I’m not going to allow you to defame my character.”
It’s not hard to update a story when you receive correct information. If they had published the story in good faith, they would have corrected it when they learned the truth, which it sounds like they knew. So it seems that they might have to this lesson the hard way and it could cost them $15 million.