Anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy hinted at retaliation against the “wicked, wicked people” who took his family’s money after he lost a $52.5 million defamation suit against an Idaho hospital.
Militia Leader Ammon Bundy Hints At Retaliation After Losing $52M Defamation Suit
Bundy is known for leading the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, and for his 2022 Idaho gubernatorial campaign. He believes “that individuals have the right to complete and total control over their life and their property,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.
St. Luke’s Regional Health in Boise, ID, sued Bundy and his associate Diego Rodriguez for defaming the hospital after Rodriguez’s infant grandson was removed from the family on suspicion of malnourishment. Rodriguez claimed the baby was “kidnapped” by people engaged in “child trafficking,” while Bundy urged his followers to protest at the hospital and the homes of child protective service employees.
- Bundy was ordered to pay the plaintiffs $6.2 million in compensatory damages and $6.15 million in punitive damages, while Rodriguez owed $7 million in compensatory damages and $6.5 million in punitive damages.
- The remainder of the money was ordered to come from Bundy’s far-right organizations: the People’s Rights Network, Freedom Man Press, and the Bundy campaign for governor.
On a rambling YouTube livestream, Bundy claimed his wife and son’s bank accounts had been raided, and he lost his Idaho home as the court sought to collect the damages. He called the civil award against him “illegitimate,” and issued a veiled threat on the video.
“I’m doing everything I can not to just retaliate against these people,” Bundy said. “I have been so peaceful. And they keep pushing me, and pushing me, and pushing me. You know, wanting me to do something so that they can arrest me and put me in prison or kill me. That’s what they’re trying to do.
“I’m almost about ready to say, you know, all those people I’ve said ‘don’t do anything to these people… don’t do anything, it’s not right to retaliate.’ I’m almost ready to say, ‘You know what? The hell with it,’” he said.
Bundy added, “I mean I want to just go fighting. You can’t fight in the corrupt courts. I want to just go to their house and I want to demand that they give it back to my son, that they had no right to take it.”
Watch the clip above via YouTube.
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