Yes, which is why legal autists are so horrified by Rekieta's legal strategy and there is some speculation Randazza is taking Rackets for a Ride for reasons of his own dislike.
Tbh even if he is I don't blame him or care. Rackets is a big boy. It's not like Randazza is shearing some innocent lamb. Good or not, Rackets is a lawyer and can be presumed to understand the services he's paying for, and he hasn't been tricked into this. It's entirely possible he even came up with the SLAPP idea himself, although it's well argued enough I'm pretty sure Randazza was in charge of the fine details.
In fact, considering I found the argument entirely outlandish at first, he actually did a pretty good job of making it a close enough call that the appeals court actually ultimately relied on the fifth "tie-breaker" factor they usually don't consider.
He's probably spent 5 times more money in the pre-trial stage before discovery then what he would have had to spend to just admit to everything in his answer and proceed to the damages hearing.
Which IS a viable legal strategy, not one taken very often of course. But it is there.
It's called confession of judgment and is not actually that uncommon. It can be as a partial settlement after litigation starts or, more controversially, a contractual term agreeing to judgment of a hypothetical future event, should it ever occur. It's sometimes accompanied by a liquidated damages clause where the amount is agreed upon in advance.
The Vic case showed his aptitude for fundraising and milking the unfair suit angle. He made shitting on the opposing party, including over the top speculation of sexual deviancy, look like fighting the good fight.
He also didn't have a pickled brain and making fun of someone for being a cuck wouldn't be defamatory per se anyway even if it were false. Similarly it's not defamatory per se to call someone fat, no matter how rudely you do it, even if they aren't fat.
In a fit of shocking retardation, wetbrain Rekieta literally went out of his way to make it a factual statement, then doubled and quadrupled down on it literally being true, but now claims not to remember having even said it at all. He'll look like absolute shit on the stand if he has to go through all his contradictory statements and outright lies.
