Maybe they should pay Ventura for the damage to his reputation. His reputation is worth about 2 dollars.
Yes! Ventura became the left’s anti-military person based on his time as a Navy Seal, but he did it for money.
Did the “American Sniper” make up the story abotu punching Ventura?
Almost certainly the answer is “YES”.
Was Ventura’s reputation damaged within the “SEAL community” as a result?
Probably, but to what extent is open to debate and hose of us outside of this tiny community won’t ever really know. (Or care).
What this really is about: This is a clasic “penis-measuring” contest type of situation between members of a special ops-type, testosterone and bragaddocio-riven subset of military and ex-military (caveat: although ex-military myself, I am not a member of such a group, but I have known enough members of the “special ops” community to be able to arrive at the above conclusion.)
Was this $1.8M worth of damage to Jesse’s reputation?
In a sane world, of course not. But we don’t live in a country with a sane legal system, more like one with a “lottery” legal model .....