Jesse Ventura: Portrait of a Conspiracy Nut

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Jesse wins!



Ventura wins $1.84 million: ‘Overjoyed reputation restored’ | Star Tribune


Ventura wins $1.84 million: ‘Overjoyed reputation restored’
Article by: RANDY FURST and JAMES WALSH , Star Tribune staff writers Updated: July 30, 2014 - 7:12 AM
Ventura shocks world again as jury grants him $1.8 million in damages for defamation by book, “unjust enrichment.”



Defying predictions of a slew of legal observers, Jesse Ventura won his defamation suit in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on Tuesday, but in his first U.S. interview afterward, he said he had “mixed emotions” about his victory.

“I am overjoyed that my reputation was restored which is what this whole lawsuit is all about,” the former Minnesota governor told the Star Tribune in a face-to-face interview in downtown Minneapolis.

“But the emotion is [about] what’s been taken from me. I can’t go to UDT [Underwater Demolition Team]-SEAL reunions anymore because that was the place I always felt safe, and who will be next to throw me under the bus? I’d have to spend my time looking over my shoulder.”

Ventura, who won a stunning 8-2 verdict from a jury in federal court in St. Paul, had frequently attended the reunions for decades and testified he considered them his brothers.

But since the late Chris Kyle’s bestselling book “American Sniper” was published in 2012, he has become persona non grata for Navy SEALs, according to his own testimony.

After six days of deliberations by a deadlocked jury, U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle, with permission of lawyers from both sides, allowed the jurors to return a split verdict.

Ventura served as governor of Minnesota for one four-year term when he was elected as an independent in a three-way race in 1998, surprising pollsters and pundits.

But many legal experts thought he was over his head when he resisted attempts to settle his defamation suit, which he filed in 2012. The standards for winning a defamation suit are high, and he was considered an underdog.

“He shocked the world in 1998, and he’s shocked the world in 2014,” said Joseph Daly, a professor emeritus at Hamline University law school. “Jesse, basically is a winner.”

The jury awarded a total of $1.845 million against the estate of Chris Kyle: $500,000 in defamation damages and $1.345 million for “unjust enrichment”— or to be specific, $1,345,477.25.

“I was nervous when the jury stayed out,” Ventura. said He said he was “very worried” because he could not understand how anyone could believe he had been punched in the head by Chris Kyle, as Kyle claimed in the book and media interviews.

For one thing, Ventura said, photos showed he had no black eye or bruises, when he had a history of profuse bleeding because he takes a blood thinner.

He also couldn’t believe anyone could think that Kyle could knock him down.

“I am 6 feet 4, I weighed 255 pounds and I’ve wrestled Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant, and this guy is going to knock me down with one punch and [leave] no mark on me whatsoever?”

While vindicated, Ventura said, he would have “permanently moved to Mexico” if he lost “because I would have nothing here to live for. If you can’t win in court with the truth, there’s nothing left.” Ventura and his wife, Terry, live about five months of the year in the state of Baja California, Mexico, mostly in the winter.

Judge suggested solution

It was Judge Kyle, who is no relation to the defendant, who proposed to the attorneys the idea of accepting a verdict that was less than unanimous.

Not knowing the divisions inside the jury, David Olsen, Ventura’s attorney, told reporters after the verdict that his legal team was prepared to accept a margin as small as 6 to 4, while attorneys for the Kyle estate opted for 8 to 2.




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WE SHOCKED THE WORLD!!!!!

But he ran away from Jim Norton. LOL
 

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They should make a ride at the fair for drunks. Get the punching power data for all the big fighters and dial it into a boxing glove hooked up to a spring off a car and charge them $10 to 'take a punch from (insert name here)' Ali is 3 fast shots
 

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This is video is a few years old, but it is a great example of the nuttiness of conspiracy nuts.

By the way, the little guy sparring with Ventura is Comedian Jim Norton.

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Ventura was /is in the entertainment business. We like our entertainment. We even elect them into political office. We need to be entertained.
 

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Mebbe he and Norton should get into the ring and settle it old school style. :)

That would be Ventura's only recourse because he lacks the intellectual capacity to put up much of an argument for his conspiracy nonsense.

Rocky Horror Picture Hairdo, ROFLMAO.
 

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I watched a little bit of the first video, Ventura says the government sends troops off to war without giving a **** and Norton objected to that... lol. Ventura is of course correct there and it's hilarious that would even be debated.
 

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Norton is an annoying moron

I watched a little bit of the first video, Ventura says the government sends troops off to war without giving a **** and Norton objected to that... lol. Ventura is of course correct there and it's hilarious that would even be debated.

Yeah, coming from you that means?

Oh yeah SFA.
 

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Sarah Palin insults Ventura according to Breitbart:


Sarah Palin Slams 'Jackass' Jesse Ventura for 'Shaking Down' Chris Kyle Widow


''Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hammered Jesse Ventura for winning a $2 million defamation lawsuit this week against Chris Kyle's widow.
After Kyle's death, Ventura continued with the lawsuit that stemmed from a passage from Kyle's book in which Kyle claimed he knocked out an unnamed Navy SEAL for trashing the troops. During his book tour, Kyle said that was Ventura. But after Kyle was tragically killed in 2013, many felt that Ventura, who has done a lot to damage his own reputation over the years, should have dropped the lawsuit.
"Hey tough guy, Jesse Ventura, your feelings were hurt because you perceived your reputation was besmirched by words in a book?" Palin said on her SarahPalinChannel. "So you turn around and sue, expecting $2 million from a military widow and her fatherless children? Yeah, like that is going to help your reputation, jackass."



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Jesse the Body was interviewed on the Chad Hartman show:

The Chad Hartman Show « CBS Minnesota


However, the interview has not been transcribed as of yet. It will probably be on that site by the end of the day or by tomorrow. Jesse gave a great interview and pointed out that he wasn't going after some poor distraught widow as he began the suit before the liar who defamed him was croaked by his friend. He won the case fair and square and deserves the money he was awarded by the jury.
 

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our local ABC affiliate just presented photos used as evidence in the recent defamation trial - not one mark was shown on Jesse's face immediately after the so called knock out punch and for two days thereafter

This is why the jury ruled as it did: no punch, no fight took place, Ventura was pictured as smiling with dozens of people and absolutely no evidence was given to prove the defamer's tale that he KO's Ventura.


hopefully, KSTP will post these pics on their site real soon ....