[cookiengineer]

Matt, stop writing online.

You are giving them more options and a bigger legal attack surface by writing online. If it turns out not to be a smear campaign and a court decides that, that alone is an attack surface for you getting surely convicted of slander.

The legal game is a different one. Get a lawyer and don't write online. Otherwise you will learn to lose everything you've built in your life over some stupid comments online.

Again, get a lawyer. Now. Stop writing. Now. Everything you will write or say will be used against you in the court of law.

There is a damn good reason this is mandatory for every cop to tell you if they arrest you.

You are mounting up the evidence for them. For free. They ragebaited and played you like a fool. Don't be that guy. Play the smart move.