They Tried to Silence Me. They Failed.

Today, the court dismissed the case against me, with prejudice. The truth held.

⚖️ We Won.

Today, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia dismissed Richard Grenell’s lawsuit against me, with prejudice.

After everything—the amended complaint, the escalation, the pressure, the cost, and years of dealing with this—the case is over.

I want to be very clear about what this was. This lawsuit wasn’t about justice. It wasn’t about truth.

This was about intimidation.
About trying to break me—financially, professionally, and personally. About sending a message: if you speak out, we will come after you.

They wanted me to settle. They wanted me to say I lied. I did not lie. And I refused to say something that wasn’t true just to make it go away.

Today, the court confirmed what I have said all along: there was no viable claim here.

Back in August 2025, when this lawsuit was refiled, I wrote about exactly what this was: an attempt to intimidate, to drag this out, and to make speaking the truth as costly as possible. Nothing about that assessment has changed, except now we have the court’s ruling to prove it. If you want to understand what this fight looked like in real time, you can read that piece HERE.

This fight has been exhausting.
It has been expensive.
And at times, it has been incredibly lonely.

But I stayed in it because I knew the stakes weren’t just about me.

This is what lawfare looks like. It’s not always about winning in court. It’s about dragging someone through the process long enough to wear them down, to isolate them, to make them think it’s not worth it to ever speak again.

That’s why I refuse to stop standing by others who’ve been targeted the same way. Because I know exactly what it feels like, and I know how important it is that we don’t let this tactic work.

I also want to take a moment to thank my attorneys, Mark S. Zaid, P.C., who himself has been targeted by the Trump administration, and Tom Craig, for standing with me, for believing in this case, and for fighting it with integrity and resolve.

To those of you who stood by me—who read, shared, supported, and reached out—thank you. Truly. You made a difference more than you know.

And to anyone watching this, wondering whether it’s worth it to speak up:

They may try to break you.
They may try to silence you.

But the truth still matters.
And today, it held.

I’m still here. And I’m not going anywhere.
We’re in this together, and I will never back down.

In solidarity,
Olivia