{"id":51023,"date":"2014-07-29T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=51023"},"modified":"2014-07-29T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T21:25:34","slug":"ventura-awarded-1-8-million-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=51023","title":{"rendered":"Ventura Awarded $1.8 Million, Defamation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jesseventuraphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51024\" alt=\"jesseventuraphoto\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jesseventuraphoto.jpg\" width=\"137\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) &#8211; An attorney for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he thinks a jury acted fairly in awarding Ventura $1.8 million in his defamation case against slain military sniper Chris Kyle.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ventura accused Kyle of lying about punching Ventura out at a California bar in 2006. Kyle wrote in his best-selling memoir &#8220;American Sniper&#8221; that he did it after Ventura badmouthed Navy SEALs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ventura said the punch never happened and neither did the remarks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David Bradley Olsen says it was more important to Ventura to get a verdict that showed Kyle&#8217;s story &#8220;was a lie.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Olsen said Ventura&#8217;s reputation among other Navy SEALs, especially younger ones, may never recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) &#8211; An attorney for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he thinks a jury acted fairly in awarding Ventura $1.8 million in his defamation case against slain military sniper Chris Kyle. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ventura accused Kyle of lying about punching Ventura out at a California bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51026,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51023\/revisions\/51026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}