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FBI Director Kash Patel's lawsuit against a blogger was dismissed by a federal judge. The court rejected his claim over an insulting social media post.
FBI Director Kash Patel sued a blogger over an insulting social media post that called him a "googly-eyed Kremlin bitch." A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, rejecting Patel's defamation claim. The court sided with the blogger's defense.
Federal defamation law sets a high bar, especially for public figures like Patel, but he pursued the case anyway and lost. The dismissal means the court found the insult insufficient to meet the legal threshold for defamation, even with a $10 million stakes. The loss is both financial and symbolic—it establishes that a sitting FBI director couldn't use the courts to silence crude social media criticism.
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