I agree with previous poster to a certain extant. I've been following it since it began when the book came out.
Ventura had to pass a pretty high threshold in order to win many articles are saying, and like I said before, many witnesses stories didn't line up accurately. Ventura had an airline ticket and rental car receipt showing he couldn't have even been there when 1/2 the witnesses said he was. He also had no marks on him afterwards during interviews showing that he had been hit. Again - who knows the truth of it, that's my point, is regardless of what happened, for all of Ventura's going on about his "family of UDT/Seals", he chose to sue "family" for money - money - instead of settling it outside of that, and that's the primary reason he is being ostracized by most of his community.
I also subscribe to the theory that due to his shows, and on air personality in interviews, many would line up against him regardless if he is in the right or not, something he should have considered before filing a lawsuit.
Good example of what's happening - I read all over my social media - which includes many x Navy guys, including some x Teams guys I've worked with both at Sig Sauer Academy and in a private military company - that Ventura in his CBS interview mistakenly said "I can't go to Seal events now as I may get hit AGAIN", many jumping on the fact that he used the word "again" a possible Freudian slip of admission that the whole thing did happen. I went hunting for that CBS interview, found it, and that isn't what he said at all, yet guys you would expect to be interested in the truth and facts are misrepresenting what Ventura said in that interview. The whole situation sucks, but if it in fact is as Ventura said, I feel badly for him as well, but still think he may have made a mistake filing suit. If indeed the money doesn't come from Kyle's estate at all, harming his wife and 2 kids, and from insurance and the publisher - I don't know, maybe Ventura has a case for what he's done. It won't help him in his dream of a Presidential run, although some say there is no such thing as bad press, and he's all over the news right now.
