In before you guys start cheering this bullshit on. Rittenhouse cannot sue anyone for any amount of anything. This idea everyone keeps on pushing just speak to the utter stupidity of our people and their lack of knowledge on how the law works. He cannot sue for damages because:
a) He became a public figure upon being charged. Anything anyone said anything about him became opinion afterward.
b) He made public statments before being charged making him a public figure.
c) He, like the fucking spic idiot that he is who hired the second worst of the worst lawyers possible, went on a media run after his acquital 100% guaranteeing that as a public figure he cannot sue for damages.
His fucking lawyer, being a life lond democrat (yes, he is a very very far left liberal and democrat) did an interview after the win and when asked is Rittenhouse not guilty, his fucking lawyer actually said: "Legally, he is not guilty".
His own fucking lawyer actually threw him under the fucking bus after the verdict where he should have been screaming at the top of his lungs "OF COURSE RITTENHOUSE IS NOT GUILT!".
Kyle is a low iq moron, he basically lucked out that the jury was able to overcome that one fucking Karen that was going for a hung jury. That is the ONLY reason he did not get convicted of at minimum some minor charge to appease the niggers.
d) During his election run, Biden did not make a statement of fact, he made a statement of opinion. This is, CORRECTLY a protected right in the American system.
Any charges against the president will be thrown out with prejudice not just because Biden did not violate any law, but because of presidential immunity. You guys do know the supreme court ruled that politicians can lie and slander anyone at any time for any reason as 100% legal, right?
Bottom line, Rittenhouse ain't getting shit.
His mother on the other hand, was heavily slandered, was not a public figure and made no public comments during the process. SHE could sue for damages.
You guys need to quit this bullshit, get your self educated on how the court system and law works and stop acting like puppets. The easiest way to get educated is to start watching some reputable law podcasts because the only way you can lean about something as dry and absurdly boring as the legal system is through the dramatic stories the law podcasts work through so your mind can imagine you being in the place of the other person in the system.
// EDIT: Yes, those of you who will crituqe this with "Would you have done any better at 18?" are absolutely correct. I would have done way worse knowing my 18 year old self. Just trying to kill a bit of the hyprebole around this whole Nick Sandman / Rittenhouse getting rich nonsense. It ain't happening.
The likelihood of Kyle winning any substantial monetary compensation for the slander and libel that he has endured is very low. However, even if he was considered to be a "public figure", that does not make it impossible to sue for defamation, it only increases the standard from "negligence" to "actual malice". I don't think it's a particularly hard argument to make that the people who defamed Kyle acted with actual malice, as they have repeatedly displayed. In terms of monetary award, he is likely to get very little, as he was 17 and lost no income or assets as a result of the defamation, then damages would be very small. The protests calling for him to be excluded from his university course because he is a "white supremacist" could actually strengthen his case for damages based on loss of likely future earnings. Here, you have the material impact of Biden's defamation playing out in the spotlight for all to see.
Time will tell. It is highly unlikely that he will get a large payout as Sandman did, because the payout was basically to prevent discovery from occurring, which would have very likely uncovered much more damaging information on the legacy media companies that they were willing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to stop coming out. Kyle has no such leverage, he's just the victim of people being utter jerks, and also the victim of having really shitty criminal defense attorneys who almost lost an unlosable case, and corrupt prosecutors who tried an unwinnable case that they knew from the start to be baseless.
Thank you very kindly for the detailed breakdown. This is my understanding as well and the correct legal terminology and framing.
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