A federal decide in New York this 7 days dismissed a $25 million defamation lawsuit from Alec Baldwin about opinions pertaining to Jan. 6 filed by relations of a Marine killed in Afghanistan, courtroom data clearly show.
The defamation lawsuit revolved all around social media comments Baldwin made after Roice McCollum — a sister of slain Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum — posted a photo of a person in a “Make The us Wonderful Once more” hat. Baldwin had donated $5,000 to McCollum’s wife following the Maritime was killed with 12 other service customers in a 2021 bomb attack in Kabul.
In January 2022, Roice McCollum posted an Instagram image of a person sporting a “Make The us Wonderful Again” hat at the Washington Monument on Jan. 6, 2021, and Baldwin lashed out at her on social media, according to the lawsuit.
“When I sent you the $ for your late brother, out of a authentic respect for his support to our region, I didn’t know you had been a January 6th rioter,” Baldwin allegedly wrote in messages saved by the plaintiff, according to the lawsuit.
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