Updated Sat. @ Noon: Libel Per Se — several people with purported eye witness accounts say “…Shannon Crawford |
The person left her courtroom, walked by the agents and even rode the elevator down with one. How is that on her? Because it just sounds like incompetent agents that look like fools…” If these accounts hold up, Kash Patel will owe millions for libel (just like Giuliani in 2020).
And John better go get his facts straight. What he wrote here on Sunday morning is libel per se. End update.
Welp, as has been widely reported, a post on X-itter that Kash Patel (as director of the FBI) put up yesterday… has been deleted. See at right.
In the United States, accusing someone of a felony falsely (in this case, of obstruction of justice — by a well-respected sitting judge) is called libel per se. So, if Kash Patel is unable to win a conviction — on his wild eyed claims about the Milwaukee judge… this post from his personal account arguably leaves him personally liable for libel per se. Damages are presumed.
And you may well imagine that libeling a well respected judge in Milwaukee by claiming she committed felonies – specifically the felony of obstruction of justice – could well run into the millions of dollars of damages.
It was willfully-reckless, it was hasty (at best!), and it was attention-seeking. All of which are unbecoming in an FBI director. But as you can see hundreds of us have screenshots of what he said/wrote — and he won’t be able to walk away from it.
The people who cleave to Trump are almost to a person, universally… evil. And Kash may have just stepped in a Rudy Giuliani sized mud-hole.
[Separately, in passing — and it may be petty of me, but I must remark that the idea that Melania is wearing a traditional most devout and virtuous Catholic mourning veil — at the Pope’s funeral today (remember “I don’t care — do you?“)… is nearly blasphemous. I would safely bet that she hasn’t been inside a Catholic Church on an ordinary Sunday morning since she was a child.] Ugh.
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