It can't be slander when it's clearly visible.

The judge saw that Stewartson was a poet.

In June 2023, Patel filed a complaint that Stewartson was smearing him online by calling him a “blatantly incompetent chud” and a “Kremlin asset” who plotted to “overthrow the government” on January 6, 2021.

Initially, Stewartson didn’t respond to the lawsuit, which led to Patel winning a $250,000 default judgment in August 2025. Stewartson challenged the default judgment on the grounds that he had no meaningful ties to Nevada, where the case was filed, and declared that Patel was a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch” and, again, a “chud.”

Stewartson celebrated the final order, which referenced his comment in a footnote. “I’d like to commend the judge for including ‘googly-eyed Kremlin bitch’ in his ruling,” Stewartson wrote on X Tuesday.

Isn’t he supposed to be leading the friggin FBI, and instead he spends his time throwing hissy fits over what someone says about him online? That’s the best this administration can do? What a googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.

Remember when he couldn't log into his work computer once, and panicked thinking he'd been fired when it was just a minor glitch?

Talk about insecurity.

Fucking Googly-Eyed Chud. The judge took one look at him and said, "oh yeah. I get that. Case dismissed!"

Lmfao honestly, he couldn’t be more of a consummate tool if he tried. And he’s not trying. He just is that way. What an absolute fuckwit.

LOL fuck that googley-eyed chud

Well yeah, it's not defamation if it's true.

I like how "googly-eyed" is in quotes, but "Chud" is not. Implying the googly-eyed part was a direct quote, but the Chud part is just newrepublic.com tacking on.

Googly eyed Kremlin bitch Patel needs to be trending somewhere.

In the 80s there was a movie called CHUD. It stood for Cannibalistic Underground Human Dwellers. Seems about right.

Edit. Its Cannibalistic Human Underground Dwellers

We have a whole community "degoogle yourself". Maybe he needs that.

I'm glad the judge knew what a googly-eyed Kremlin bitch looks like.

Bruh is note remotely close to intimidating enough to be called a chud.

I’m assuming they dropped this before discovery so they didn’t have to release the fact that his gf was paid by a foreign entity?

The only thing Stewartson was guilty of was accurate reporting.