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Jesse Ventura wins $1.8million defamation suit against estate of.. Chris Kyle
Dail Mail UK ^ | July 29, 2014 | AP Reporter

Posted on 07/29/2014 1:10:22 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing

A Minnesota jury has awarded former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura $1.8 million Tuesday in his lawsuit against the estate of American Sniper author Chris Kyle.

On the sixth day of deliberations, the federal jury decided that the 2012 best-selling book defamed Ventura in its description of a bar fight in California in 2006.

Kyle wrote that he decked a man whom he later identified as Ventura after the man allegedly said the Navy SEALs 'deserve to lose a few.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: CivilWarBrewing
Well, Jesse's reputation is pretty well etched in stone now.

Where could he ever again show his ugly mug in public without someone yelling out "SCUMBAG!"?

41 posted on 07/29/2014 2:10:33 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I feel so sorry for Chris’s widow. My heart goes out to her for the injustice that has been done here.


42 posted on 07/29/2014 2:12:11 PM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: CivilWarBrewing
So I guess THE TRUTH doesn't matter to almost every poster on this thread.

Face the facts. This story was made up to sell a book. What the hell is wrong with you people?

If you were ex military would you be ok if someone made up a story about you saying maybe other soldiers should die?

43 posted on 07/29/2014 2:37:17 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

If you were ex-military would you SUE THE INNOCENT WIDOW OF A SEAL FOR ALL SHE’S GOT?


44 posted on 07/29/2014 2:47:59 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: meadsjn
Yo! Jessie boa-boi! Here's your reputation today.

Just ponder this. After your actions this is the absolute best that you can look forward to upon your demise. No SEALS, no UDT, no USN, just clowns.

On second thought even clowns at core have a sense of right and wrong.

45 posted on 07/29/2014 2:50:48 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I agree with your assessment of ventura.

All in all jesse is just butt hurt because today’s SEALs get all the glory while he’s nothing but a comment above a urinal


46 posted on 07/29/2014 2:53:31 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (If you ain't CAV, you ain't.......)
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To: precisionshootist

I agree with you. It matters not what one’s opinion of Jesse Ventura is, slander is still slander. A law is not a just law unless it is applied equally to the ignoble as it is to the noble among us.


47 posted on 07/29/2014 2:54:14 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: nhwingut

“If he thinks his name was tarnished by Kyle before, this is a far worse PR hit. Suing the family of a dead war hero, really? Doesn’t get any lower than that.”

I can only hope that one of Chris’ buddies comes forward and does a repeat performance on jesse.


48 posted on 07/29/2014 2:57:56 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (If you ain't CAV, you ain't.......)
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To: The Great RJ
Where is this widow supposed to come up with that kind of money?

From the 6 mil she made off the book. The book that sold extra well after people found out it had the story about Jesse getting a beat down.
49 posted on 07/29/2014 2:59:05 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Maybe he is scum. I don’t care. But the man and his family made 6 million because the book sold well. If it sold well because people bought it to read that anecdote. And if there was not convincing proof it really happened... Well then the law suite seems warranted. It was not HIS widow. Why does he owe her millions made off of his fame and reputation? I don’t know what the evidence was in the case and neither do most people here. But you can’t just make crap up and the profit at others expense. Not unless you are a Democrat.


50 posted on 07/29/2014 3:02:44 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TexasCajun

It’s SEAL, because those letters mean something.


51 posted on 07/29/2014 3:03:27 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Edward Teach

Well said. This mob in here with the pitchforks makes me sick. If you don’t like the Rule of Law find another forum.


52 posted on 07/29/2014 3:04:46 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: CivilWarBrewing

At several points, Ventura offered to drop the suit if Kyle and the publisher and later Kyle’s widow and the publisher would acknowledge that the story was not true. They refused.


53 posted on 07/29/2014 3:05:36 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: El Zoro

Minnesotans apparently adore him.


They deserve him....


54 posted on 07/29/2014 3:09:13 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

If Ventura had any sense of honor at all, he would have dropped this suit after Kyle was killed. Lowlife jerk.


55 posted on 07/29/2014 3:13:03 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: TalonDJ

Are you retarded or a left wing but? If you think Kyles book sold because of one paragraph about a 9/11 truther ahole then in all likelihood you are both.


56 posted on 07/29/2014 3:13:03 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: CivilWarBrewing

First:

This story is a made up lie to sell a book

Second:
I would consider telling a lie on national television about a fellow soldier saying he thought other soldiers should die to be a pretty serious issue.

Third:
Someone had the idea to make this story up so how do you know she’s innocent? Maybe she knew it was a made up story. Who knows but one thing is certain and that is she stood to profit mightily off the destruction of an innocent former soldiers reputation.

Last
Ventura has stated its the publishers insurance is who is financially on the hook for slander. Not sure of the accuracy but to me it does not matter.


57 posted on 07/29/2014 3:18:52 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

So the three witnesses who swore under oath that Ventura was badmouthing the troops all perjured themselves right?


58 posted on 07/29/2014 3:40:26 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
It was a made up lie. Deal with it.

You don't like Jessie Ventura so the truth doesn't matter to you. We get it.

59 posted on 07/29/2014 4:15:41 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

Ventura is a 9/11 truther whiney bastard and serial slanderer of Bush and Cheney who deserved to get knocked on his ass. Deal with that dipsh^t.


60 posted on 07/29/2014 4:46:10 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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