Kash Patel loses lawsuit against blogger who called him a 'googly-eyed' Kremlin asset

Systemic Error Podcast · Sep 6, 2026 · 3m

Kash Patel, the Courts, and the Thin Skin of PowerThe Source of the StoryA federal judge dismissed Kash Patel’s defamation case against blogger Jim Stewartson, ending a lawsuit that had already lurched through a default judgment, a jurisdiction fight, and a belated attempt to undo the damage. The legal issue was not whether Patel disliked the posts. It was whether he had any right to drag a California-based writer into a Nevada court at all.Who Had Power HereThe real power in this story was never the blogger’s Substack. It was Patel’s access to the legal system, and now his control over one…