Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been thwarted in his attempts to sue a blogger who criticized him on social media for defamation after a judge ruled that he didn’t have enough evidence.
Kennedy has tried for years to sue blogger David Vickery for libel after he reported that he once shared a stage with neo-Nazis in Berlin while speaking at an anti-lockdown rally during the COVID pandemic in 2020.
However, after a protracted four-year court battle, which saw Kennedy file lawsuits against both Vickery and publisher The Daily Kos, a judge ruled on Tuesday that the lawsuit against Kos was officially dead in the water.
The reason for the dismissal? RFK Jr.’s legal team refused to deny the central premise of Vickery’s report during summary judgment—that the health secretary had indeed appeared alon