Ammon Bundy Hit With $50M Defamation Judgment

July 25, 2023 Extremists, Trump cultists

The Daily Beast reports:

Anti-government agitator Ammon Bundy must pay an Idaho hospital more than $50 million for defaming it and targeting it with protests while it cared for an associate’s grandson—who was taken into protective custody after child welfare officials determined he was malnourished.

In March of last year, Bundy was arrested for trespassing outside of St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center, where 10-month-old “Baby Cyrus” was being treated. The then-gubernatorial candidate organized a week-long protest, claiming Cyrus was “medically kidnapped” over a “missed non-emergency doctor’s appointment.”

Two months later, St. Luke’s hospital filed a defamation suit against Bundy and Diego Rodriguez, the child’s grandpa and an activist in Bundy’s far-right People’s Rights Network (PRN). The complaint also named their companies, including Rodriguez’s Freedom Man Press, which posted Baby Cyrus “kidnapping videos.”

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When the lawsuit was first filed, Bundy responded by saying, “If I have to meet ’em on the front door with my, you know, friends and a shotgun, I’ll do that. They’re not going to take my property.”

Last year Bundy mounted a failed independent bid for Idaho governor, finishing third in the November general election with 17% of the vote.

As you can see below, one of Bundy’s former associates is convicted rioter Pam Hemphill, who appeared here last month when she begged Trump to stop talking about her, declaring, “I pleaded guilty because I was guilty. I’m not a victim.”



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