Attorney Jake Fendley is responding after facing backlash for representing streamer Chud the Builder in court. Chud has made a reputation for himself as a racist antagonist and earlier this month, shot a Black man in broad daylight.
Fendley released a lengthy public statement defending his role as legal counsel for Chud, whose real name is Dalton Eatherly, after the internet accused the attorney of supporting racist behavior by taking the case.
According to the statement, Fendley argued that representing a client accused of racism does not mean a lawyer personally agrees with the allegations.
“My role is to represent people regardless of their race, religion, ideology, or allegations against them.”
Fendley also referenced his own family history and professional responsibilities while defending his decision to represent Eatherly in court.
“To be called a racist is an awful thing for me. I was raised to do the right thing even if it isn’t popular. My grandfather taught school and coached basketball during the height of racial integration in our country,” the statement reads in part. “He allowed his best athletes to play regardless of skin color and, because of his choices, was referred to as the “n****r coach”. I am proud of him for having the courage to do the right thing even to the detriment of his social status. I am just as proud of his actions in that regard as I am his military service in the Korean War.”
He eventually closed the statement out with, “When I have been chosen to defend a fellow citizen, I will not back down. I will not cower in the face of adversity. I will not be silenced by popular opinion. It is a right entitled to each one of us by the Constitution. I will fight for the people of our nation until I cannot fight anymore.”
Chud the Builder is a generational activist who says more with one word than every rw poster on this website.
— VanRaalte, Agro-Nationalist (@AgroNationalism) May 15, 2026
Humiliation rituals work. That's why the left does them.
He's directly attacking the keystone of antiwhite social power that makes horror stories like below possible. https://t.co/LRrLGP6YIK pic.twitter.com/EhALcWHmlH
The controversy surrounding Chud the Builder has continued to grow in recent months. In November 2025, a woman named Yashmine Shauntea West filed a petition seeking a protective order against Eatherly, alleging he committed “racial violent behavior” against her. The request was ultimately denied.
More recently, Eatherly has faced attempted murder and additional charges connected to a courthouse shooting in Tennessee.
