Thread by @AmoneyResists

.@JDVance: It's been 1 week since you sent a "cease and desist" letter to me demanding that I delete the tweet in which I called you out for RAPING BOYS in the Ohio Valley in the mid-2000s (which you did). I told you to GET FUCKED. Where is the "swift and certain legal action"?

https://twitter.com/AmoneyResists/status/1914387456335782161

Here's the tweet that child rapist @JDVance demanded I delete (and apologize to him).

I will NEVER delete it nor will I apologize to you, you fucking pedophile.

That tweet has 29.6 MILLION VIEWS and I'll keep boosting it until it is the most viewed tweet in Twitter history

https://twitter.com/amoneyresists/status/1912180035114406251

@JDVance Spoiler Alert: @JDVance will never sue me because:

1. You cannot win a defamation case if the claims made about you are true (and mine are). Truth is an absolute defense to defamation.

@JDVance 2. In both libel (written) and slander (spoken), the core requirement is that the statement be *false* AND damaging to your reputation. If the defendant can prove the statement is true (I CAN), even if it’s embarrassing or harmful, then you lose the case.

@JDVance 3. Since the claim is true, not only would @JDVance lose any defamation case brought against me, he would also, simply by doing so:
—Draw national (more likely global) attention to the accusation
—Legally confirm the truth of the claim
—Embarrass himself more than staying quiet

@JDVance 4. As @JDVance has already learned the hard way with his painfully transparent “cease and desist” letter, trying to suppress the claim through intimidation will only:

—Draw more public attention to it
—Make it (EVEN MORE) viral/ newsworthy, worsening his own reputational damage

@JDVance 5. Any lawsuit filed by Vance against me opens the door to the process of DISCOVERY, in which:

—The person suing (plaintiff) might have to turn over emails, texts, or testify under oath (ruh roh)
—More dirt would be likely to surface
—Media outlets would pick up on it/dig deeper

@JDVance 6. The optics of a sitting Vice President/child rapist suing a private citizen for telling the truth are utterly atrocious, as it would:

—Look like bullying or a desperate attempt at a cover-up.
—Be doomed to backfire with public opinion, especially in the age of social media

@JDVance 7. Litigation is expensive and time-consuming (J.D. might believe he has the upper hand here because of his billionaire backers, but he still doesn’t)

Cause I can crowdfund any legal fees that I ever need to pay and I have all the time in the world to end your career @JDVance

@JDVance 8. A long, protracted, and messy legal battle would not only serve to make these allegations known to all Americans, it would supercharge the story, make headlines for months, and divert time, money, and energy away from other priorities (like pretending to be our Vice President)

@JDVance 9. Vance filing a lawsuit would give the person who made the accusation (me):
—An even bigger platform (I would probably get invited on talk/radio/news shows) and more credibility.
—Legal standing to subpoena and/or counterclaim
—Public sympathy as a “truth-teller under attack”

@JDVance 10. As the other points have made clear, a lawsuit against me would be political/professional suicide for J.D. This is compounded by how it could:

—Trigger investigations, resignations, lost endorsements, and public opprobrium
—Invite scrutiny of a dark secret that would end him

@JDVance 11. I am this administration’s worst nightmare because I rival them in social status/privilege [I’ve even turned being gay from a weak spot into an unassailable strength by unapologetically stating it in my bio and embracing it as a part of who I am unequivocally proud to be]

@JDVance Lastly, as a psychologist I take @JDVance’s letter AS A FUCKING CONFESSION. Because I get called a Nazi and a pedo and a groomer and a Marxist and a Terrorist and every other thing on here CONSTANTLY and it doesn’t bother me whatsoever. Why? Because I am none of those things.

@JDVance I knew it was all true already of course. @JDVance CONFIRMED IT TO ME with that cease and desist letter. And now I will never cease nor desist.

J.D. and I are actually the exact same age believe it or not.

I will dedicate my life to ensuring that he goes down in flames.