Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence under President Trump, Kash Patel, has filed a defamation lawsuit and Demand for Jury Trial in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada against self-described “anti-disinformation activist” and troll Jim Stewartson.
Patel, who frequently calls out the criminal actors in the Deep State, filed a complaint that alleges Jim Stweartson for “habitually defaming Kashyap Patel and the nonprofit organization Mr. Patel founded, the Kash Foundation, Inc.” and sought fame “through the modern trend of defaming prominent conservative figures.”
The filing continues:
“Stewartson used his defamatory rhetoric to gain thousands of followers across several social media platforms and start his own podcast, where he regularly defames prominent conservative activists to his thousands of listeners.”
The defendant, Jim Stewartson, launched a chat group on Discord called “The Thinking Project” and co-hosted a podcast called “Radicalized: Truth Survives Podcast” not long after the January 6 riot at the Capitol in 2021.
Stewartson also runs a Substack page that lists his following goals:
- Provide value to my readers by educating them on fascism, disinformation, and their relationship — how we got here, who’s responsible, and where all of this is going if we fail to address it.
- Provide an unfiltered view of active disinformation operations — at every scale and wherever they are, regardless of politics or ideology — so people can make better, more informed decisions for themselves.
- Combat coordinated harmful activity, abuse, and harassment on Twitter and other platforms so we can have a safe place for opinions, disagreements, and debates without inauthentic actors intentionally targeting people with no consequences. This includes Twitter
- Acknowledging and providing a way to report coordinated harmful activity
- Banning all the single-purpose hate accounts that generate the majority of harm
- Restoring my account and the accounts of my followers and friends who have been targeted
The filing notes further:
“According to VICE, The Thinking Project’s discord server focused ‘on the collection of disinformation, sharing of articles about QAnon and building resources to share with those who contact the group. There is no effort to intervene personally with anyone or even speak to QAnon believers directly. Instead, those who get in touch are directed to a range of online resources with best practices about how to speak to someone who believes in QAnon.'”
Some of the false statements Stewartson made publically against Kash Patel include:
- Mr. Patel “attempted to overthrow the government”
- Mr. Patel “planned 1/6”;
- Mr. Patel is “guilty of sedition”;
- Mr. Patel is a “Kremlin asset”; and
- Mr. Patel and his Foundation paid people to “lie to Congress.”
The statements referenced above can be found on Mr. Stewartson’s public Twitter page. Additionally, in a recent substack post, Stewartson again refers to Kash Patel as a “Kremlin asset” despite the ongoing lawsuit.
Patel alleges that his nonprofit Kash Foundation “has suffered direct pecuniary losses as a result of Defendant’s statements, including costs associated with lost business opportunities and money spent to defend his own reputation.”
Patel seeks ten million dollars in punitive damage, forfeiture of “any and all income Defendant has made off of his lies about Mr. Patel and the Kash Foundation,” and an order prohibiting Stewartson from publishing further defamatory statements.
Jim Stweartson is one of many angry Trump-hating leftists.
Read the full filing below:
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