Duke University Assault Accuser Admits To LYING & Whoopi Calls Out RFK Over "Fat Shaming"

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Crystal Mangum accused the Duke lacrosse team of raping her. Okay. The wonderful documentary, I don't know if you saw the documentary, but it'll make you so angry to see what happened to these kids. Their lives were absolutely ruined. Two of 'em close to suicide. It was so bad. Their future was ruined. They were humiliated. They were lied about. They had to drop out of school. And this lying POS says now.

Whose in prison for murder.

Whose in prison for murder. That's right. Murdering her boyfriend. Stabbed him to death, her boyfriend. Yeah. And now she says, I almost can't read this. It's like, oh, I made up a story that I'm so sorry. I didn't know what I was doing. Really? You changed these people's lives in such a negative way that, I'm sorry, ain't good enough. I don't care if you've come to Jesus or what, I'm sorry is not good enough. And unfortunately in the process, think of the harm she's done to other claimants.

Right.

Just like, I thought to me, as soon as I read this story, you found this story, I thought it was a good story, I thought of Jussie Smollett. Okay. This big scam, this big fraud. Somebody tried to kill me. They wanted to kill me because I was gay. They wanted to kill me because I was African American. What does that do to people? Doesn't it just invalidate claims?

Because he said it was Trump supporters that did it.

Yeah. They were Trump supporters. So it invalidates the people that really do go through this. And these people that do this kind of thing, oh, I'm just so sorry. I'm just so sorry. Of course with Smollett, they bought into it because he was a celebrity. You had corporate media eating it up because you had rich white kids at Duke University versus, I mean, with her, with her.

Yeah. And look, the corporate media every night had these kids' faces each in their own little blocks up on the screen. I remember that clear as day. And yeah, because at the time this seemed very credible. It seemed real. But then obviously the University did their own investigation after the fact, after all of this information had come out. And they said, no, these kids are innocent. But at the time, Duke lacrosse, they had to forfeit their entire season. The lacrosse program suffered just a reputational blow that'll never recover. And of course, just the personal damage these individuals themselves have gone through and will continue to go through because this story of her coming out and saying, hey, by the way, I lied.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

This is not getting the coverage that those people got.

No, exactly.

And that's the problem.

Yeah. They won't talk about this story. Just like they're really not, I come back to Jussie Smollett. That story really bothered me because this is a guy that was willing, he wanted to start a little mini race war right there in his backyard. You know, they did it to me because I was gay. They did it to me because I was African American. They were Trump supporters. They were MAGA. And all of a sudden, just like the Duke story, corporate media jumps all behind it. Now they did it with him because he had a TV show. They did it with her because she was African American versus rich white kids that had special treatment. Until we can stop this, until we can get media to be media again, report news. Give us the positives. Give us the negatives. This is gonna happen again and again. Don't you think?

Yeah. And look, to me, one of the biggest issues with this as well that you kind of touched on there, is the fact that most women who are victims of sexual assault are terrified to come forward and they're terrified to come forward because nobody's gonna believe them. They're gonna blame the victim. This is your fault. They're gonna shame them through eternity. And stories like this make it less likely that real victims will come forward in the future.

No question.

So this woman has ruined not just these young men's lives, she's ruined the lives of women that actually have gone through things like this, who now will not come forward because this story makes it seem like women are lying about these things. This needs to be bigger news than it is and it me off that it's not.

Well, your point is such a great point.