The Congressman vs. the Cow

If you don’t follow US politics, the name of Congressman, Devin Nunes may not ring a bell.  Some in the media have described him as President Trump’s lapdog.  Late night host, Jimmy Kimmel went a step further, saying that calling him that, was “an insult to dogs and laps”. 

This year, Mr. Nunes made headlines for filing a defamation lawsuit against a satirical internet cow- an anonymous Twitter user going by the name of “Devin Nunes’ cow”.  The result: the number of followers of that account spiked, briefly surpassing his own Twitter follower count.  Currently that account has 662,000 followers. 

As if that was not enough, more recently, after a rival politician claimed to know the identity of the person(s) behind that account, Mr. Nunes’ lawyer sent a legal missive, demanding that he shut down that account.  This is what his opponent had to say:

Yes it’s true; a sitting member of Congress wants me to force a fake cow @DevinCow to say sorry. This keeps getting weirder and weirder.