FBI Director Kash Patel’s lawsuit against a man who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch” and “blatantly incompetent chud” was thrown out by a federal judge on Tuesday.
In an order granting defendant Jim Stewartson’s motion to dismiss, Nevada Chief District Judge Andrew Gordon determined he did not have jurisdiction over Patel’s initial $10 million defamation complaint, thus voiding a previous default judgment against the self-described “anti-disinformation activist.”
Patel first sued Stewartson back in June 2023 over tweets calling him a “blatantly incompetent chud” who had “attempted to overthrow the government” and was “guilty of sedition” as part of a premeditated plot to incite the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on the Capitol.
Stewartson did not respond to the suit, resulting in a $250,000 default judgment in Patel’s favor in August 2025.
The blogger and podcaster challenged the decision on the grounds he had no meaningful ties to Nevada as a California resident whose posts were not aimed at residents of the Silver State.
Taunting Patel as a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch” online, Stewartson said he was ready to “explain in full detail” why he was “dead serious” when he called the FBI director a “chud.”
After the insult made it into a footnote of Judge Gordon’s Tuesday order, Stewartson shared an X post saying, “PSA: Now that my case is settled, you are free to refer to @FBIDirectorKash as a ‘chud,’ a ‘googly-eyed Kremlin bitch,’ and a ‘traitor’ without fear of legal repercussions!”
The magazine called the claim a “meritless” attack on the First Amendment in a motion to dismiss filed on Monday.