Former reporter sues HuffPost for $23.5M over rape accusation

​A former political reporter for The Young Turks web newscast is suing the Huffington Post for $23.5 million for accusing him of being a rapist.

Jordan Chariton, 31, worked for TYT and started the left-leaning news site Truth Against the Machine. Last month HuffPost contributor Christian Chiakulas published a pieced titled “Jordan Chariton Accused by Former Employees of Sexual Abuse, Harassment.”

Chariton says he never assaulted anyone. Instead he says he had consensual sex with his married accuser who worked for him at Truth Against the Machine.

Chariton says in the new Manhattan Supreme Court suit that his accuser Carly Hammond had an ax to grind because she wanted to start a competing news outlet.

Chariton also says the HuffPost reporter showed bias when he said in a leaked group Facebook chat “we’re bringing this motherf—-r down” and “let’s add him to the list including Weinstein.”

Chariton was fired from The Young Turks after the story was published in HuffPost. It has since been removed, but the site has refused to issue a retraction, his suit says. ​

A lawyer for Huffington Post did not immediately return a request for comment. Chiakulas and Hammond, who are not named as defendants in the suit, also did not immediately respond to messages.