New Bombshell in Cornell 7 Case Will Shock You; Lawyer Weighs In on Cover-Up

0:00When you live in a society that excuses or lets people off the hook for sexual assault that trickles up. That impunity trickles up. That's why we have a president of the United States that is an adjudicated rapist. Because when these crimes start initially, a lot of cover is provided not to the victim of the sexual assault, but to the actual rapist. And here is a video of the district attorney who failed to pursue charges in the Cornell University gang rape case. Play the clip. and was at the very least assaulted, doesn't remember things that happened. Who knows if she was even conscious for all of it.

0:45I want to know more about what happened. And that's, correct me if I'm wrong, your job. My job under the New York State Constitution is to apply the penal law of New York State. We are constrained by that law. Whether you agree with it, whether you think someone's conduct is morally repugnant or vulgar or disgusting, I'm still constrained by the law. Josh, unpack this for us. Well, we see this level of incompetence in the criminal justice system day in and day out. But let's put this in context. So this young lady, Jane Doe, she reports basically a crime of sexual assault or rape against her. And she reports that to the Cornell Police Department, which is basically the campus cops.

1:37OK, and she fills out a six page affidavit or the officer prepares an affidavit based on her sworn statements. And they give that to the district attorney. OK, and think about that. So all he does is look at that affidavit, determines that he's not going to file a charge. And this is in 2024. Doesn't think to interview Jane Doe, never reaches out to Jane Doe, never reaches out to the seven or eight alleged perpetrators of this rape, of this sex crime, and simply declines the charge. And there's a number of problems with that. The Ithaca, the college cops, they're like mall cops. So they're not trained to take statements from victims of sexual assaults or any type of sexual abuse.

2:26They don't have that skill set. There are other jurisdictions that could have intervened here, the state prosecutor's office or the local law enforcement. But these are campus cops that are doing this. And this DA, and that's what Jake Tapper is getting at, is at a bare minimum, when this got on your desk, it required you to do your job, to ask questions, to bring this young lady in, to attempt to interview, issue a subpoena to these kids, ask for their cell phones, talk to them. And he did none of that. And then what's even more maddening is when he gets on an interview like that with Jake Tapper and takes this grand position that he did his job and cites the state constitution.

3:06It's utter nonsense. It really is. And it's incompetence. And I see that day in and day out with a lot of these state agencies because they're so underfunded, these Republican states and even some of the blue states. a local law enforcement is so underfunded that it's so incompetent. And so you're seeing that in this case. Well, obviously that is the official court, but the court of public opinion is weighing in and justifiably, this is a crime that you hear about that shocks the conscience. And then you hear about the impunity in which these seven young men received. It's disgusting. It's insult to injury.

3:49But, you know, we live in where the public town square can be really damning. And a Cornell student accused of rape has now been fired from his job. Pop this up. TMZ reports that Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation. So, Josh, the reopening of the investigation. It was prompted simply by Jane Doe filing a civil lawsuit against these seven or eight boys and a lot of media attention. And that's what prompted this thing to reopen. Nobody had an epiphany here that, hey, we need to do the right thing and investigate this.

4:33It wasn't until the temperature on this thing got turned up, the media got involved, and now they've reopened this. Just think about this. In 2024, this six-page affidavit lands on your desk, and you don't think to bring that young woman in and ask her questions or potentially reach out and issue a subpoena or send a detective to go interview any of these young men, ask them any questions? How in the fuck does that happen? And you sit there and you get on TV and you defend it? It's insane. Well, and as I started the episode, I talked about this trickles upwards. towards when we do not act at any age, when a woman is sexually assaulted or raped, or a child is sexually assaulted or raped, or kids in the Catholic Church are sexually assaulted or raped, and the instinct is to cover it up, provide impunity.

5:27And this is a thing that we see all throughout culture. And because we are not, we say, oh, we oppose rape. Oh, we oppose pedophilia. But when we try people in the court system, that doesn't match up if they even get tried in the court system. I mean, the only person who's been tried in the Epstein case is the woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is a convicted child sex trafficker. But this sort of impunity trickles up. And now we have a rapist, adjudicated rapist, president of the United States. And I want to shift gears here for a second. This is a story that I think all of us, it really is so upsetting.

6:03And this is the story of a young man in Mississippi named Nolan Wells. And Nolan Wells was on a boat with all of his friends and they went to Horn Island and Nolan's phone left the island. Nolan didn't. And Nolan turns up dead. There were reports that he drowned, yet I'm about to play for you the results of his autopsy. Nolan Wells, something very important to point out here, Nolan Wells is black. All of his friends are white. And I want you to think about when we start unpacking this Nolan Wells thing, I want you to think about Natalie Holloway, a white girl on an island that went missing. And think about how that was in the media and the demand for justice.

6:55and then juxtapose that with what's happening with Nolan Wells. Here are the results of Nolan's autopsy. Play the clip. Lungs. No fluid or debris is within the airways. GI tract. Unremarkable. The stomach is empty. What this means is that there's no water in the stomach. There's no water in the lungs. and there's no water in the throat. And yet the grand jury, if you read through that, especially at the end, what they want to determine is an accidental drowning. Josh, unpack this for us. Well, let me first just say, too, that there's no doubt in my mind that because this young man is black that they're treating this investigation differently.

7:51I mean, it's very secretive and somewhat combative. So the families had to go out and get their own lawyers to navigate this process. But think about this. Nobody can say how this young man died, how Nolan died. The state's own report says it was undetermined. And one of the things we didn't talk about, he had a fresh injury to the back of his head that nobody can explain. There's no water in his lungs, as she mentioned. And more or less, it's the tone from this prosecutor. I believe they've been somewhat combative in reference to Nolan Wells' family had the phone, had his cell phone, and they hired a forensic expert to extract items on the phone.

8:38And they claimed that their items deleted on that cell phone. And they tried to reach an agreement with the district attorney's office to allow them to also get a copy of it. But you have to understand, they're afraid to give them that phone. That's a piece of evidence and they don't trust that district attorney. And so those negotiations kind of fell apart. I tried to find out if it was available publicly, whether or not these three boys testified before the grand jury. And it's unclear. The media reports state that they cooperated. But there's no proof of that other than that they met presumably with law enforcement.

9:13And so a lot of this, like everybody's entitled to a presumption of innocence. And I believe in that more than anything in the world. But again, the problem in these cases, it's the optics raised by the prosecutor's own actions like this biased against them. And like the other clip that you just played, like the prosecutor was somewhat combative about helping a victim of crime. And it's the same thing here. I mean, this family, the Wells family lost their son. And there's no reason why this district attorney's office is not reaching out to help these people and find out the truth about what happened instead of being combative and fighting them on certain issues.

9:53There's no reason for it. And if this young man was white, you wouldn't see any of this bullshit. You wouldn't see any of it. We wouldn't be having this discussion. You would see a black kid with handcuffs on being led to jail with cameras on him, period, end stop. And it's bullshit. And you don't see it until you have to see stories like this or you're part of the system day in and day out. I see it. So none of this shit surprises me. And it's amazing how all these people just get impacted by it simply because now it's brought to their attention. or they have a loved one that have to go through it.

10:24But you've been through this with me. Like we see this day in and day out, how victims are somewhat vilified. Especially black victims or women. Black victims or women, like the two cases we just talked about. It's interesting because in the case, if Nolan Wells were white and he went to Horn Island with a bunch of black kids, you would see that white district attorney advocating, we will find out what happened. And we will turn over every single stone. But these boys immediately lawyered up. One of the boys' stepmother is a judge in the county. It's my understanding. And so this looks, it has the appearance of we are advocating for these white boys.

11:03This is Mississippi, a deeply still very much racist state that has Confederate flags and all that shit. And so we want to shine a light on this for Nolan and for his parents. I mean, we have a son Nolan's age. And if this was flipped, you would probably have members of Congress calling for an investigation. If this was a white victim and a black boy accused of a crime, you would have members of Congress. You'd have Fox News all over this thing. It would be all the bell whistles and the rage bait and all the racism. It would be all that shit. And it's disgusting. You're exactly right. These guys are just awful.

11:39All right. Speaking of racism, I find Republicans' relationship with black athletes to be very reminiscent of ownership. the fact that NFL owners are called the owners and the way they treated Colin Kaepernick. And all of these racists that I know in our home state of Oklahoma also are big University of Oklahoma Boomer Sooner football fans, and they're all big Oklahoma City Thunder NBA basketball fans. But when it comes to advocating for like when the Black Lives Matter thing came out, you know, they're like, you need to shut up and dribble. Well, I know this is rather nuanced, but it's important the way white people use and exploit black athletes.

12:30And the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, under Donald Trump, is now using the NFL to push its scare tactics. Pop this up. Breaking the NFL has asked Trump's Homeland Security to remove this video. they posted a former Eagles player, Brian Dawkins, pregame walkout and hard hits to promote ISIS message about a purported migrant caravan. The league has requested that DHS take down the video, an NFL spokesperson said. Josh. Think about this. So you have the Department of Homeland insecurity, you've got their general counsel, this fucking clown. He posts this video of Brian Dawkins, who is a very well known athlete that played for the Philadelphia Eagles.

13:24And he had this ritual before the games. And, and he posts that without any consent from the NFL, from Brian Dawkins, anyone, and just post this. Now, who does that? And not only that, but he posted to perpetuate this propaganda campaign against migrants crossing the border, which is just a fucking lie. So they're using his image, his likeness, all the copyright infringements associated with that to perpetrate a fraud, basically, that there are migrants coming over and by God, we're ready for him. I mean, so anyway, I'll let you take it from there. And so then the DHS responds, pop this up. DHS top lawyer responds with a Bugs Bunny meme to the NFL asking them to take down their ridiculous propaganda video using clips of former Eagles great Brian Dawkins.

14:21Hope the NFL sues these morons. So this guy posts a meme of Bugs Bunny shouting no. And I just think it's important to be an ally. And Josh and I feel this with every fiber of our bone. And this is a time where Black people are exhausted. They are exhausted from this regime. They are exhausted from being exploited. And we have to stand up as allies to the bigots that love to consume NFL, that love to consume the NBA, that love college football. It's their whole fucking identity, if you will. Some white racists, some of these people, their whole identity is being a fan of some particular team, wherein 80 % of the team is black.

15:18but then when these black players say hey we're going to put on our jersey black lives matter and on the court colin kaepernick's going to take a knee to say in my neighborhoods we're over policed over arrested cops lie about it then they're told shut the up and i think it's so disgusting and i had a viral clip where i talk about white people if you don't like multiculturalism and you want all these people deported than stop watching sports. Stop it. But you don't get to be this duplicitous. Oh, we love, you know, we love the Eagles and we love the Oklahoma City Thunder. But black athletes shut the fuck up at all times.

16:01And this right here, this DHS thing to me just perfectly illustrates this white mindset that people have about the exploitation of athletes. If you're really into something, get beyond the surface level. Understand, like, I think it's important that we understand what our fellow citizens go through. We still have predominantly black neighborhoods in the United States. Racism is ubiquitous and on the accelerant because of Donald Trump. And so if you're truly a fan, wouldn't you stand up to this regime for exploiting a black player who probably wants nothing to do with this dipshit racist pedophile administration.

16:48But oh, no. I mean, it's just it's it's really it disgusts me to the core of my being, because in the state of Oklahoma, I know so many people whose entire identity is being a sports fan. And then when it comes time to listen to those athletes talk about problems in their communities, they say, shut up and dribble. And this trolling is coming from the general counsel for a federal agency. This isn't coming from a private citizen. So keep that in mind, the tone that's been set from these fucking clowns. Like it just, it takes every fiber that I have not to want to just smash my TV every day when I'm watching this shit.

17:26It's true. I've witnessed you get so mad about it. It's just, it's insane. And I hate it because they set the tone from the top down and you see this shit and he knows how hard it is to bring some kind of a federal claim against an agency to have this taken down. Elon Musk runs X, so they're not going to take it down. This is what happens when you monopolize the table. They can do whatever the fuck they want with no recourse. It's going to change. All right. Last story. I want to get your take on this. Another one of Trump's legal fights is falling apart. Pop this up.

18:01Joyce White Vance reports. The reporting here is that the White House is pressuring quote, grand conspiracy prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida for indictments before the election. If true, that would violate longstanding DOJ policy about taking overt steps so close to an election. And coincidentally, Florida is not looking good for the Republicans. Josh, unpack for us laymen what this means. I think we're way past talking about DOJ violations in respect to Joy, but we're way past that shit. This has gone just the opposite direction. So you had seven prosecutors down in Florida. They've drummed up this grand conspiracy case where they want to charge Brennan.

18:49They want to charge Obama. They want to charge all these people with a conspiracy to defraud the American public with some grand election count or violation. Who knows what the fuck it is? I mean, it's so insane. But just about a month or two ago, I think that Joseph DiGenova, I think he resigned from that. He was appointed. He's that fox clown that you see half the time. He and his wife, they were appointed down there and he left. And now you see that I think seven prosecutors are leaving. And why are they leaving? Because they're being asked to trump up charges, for lack of a better word against these former government officials.

19:31And I can't tell you how significant this is for the Department of Justice, the fall from grace from where we are that you've got Donald Trump basically threatening to fire prosecutors if they don't charge his criminal, if they don't charge his political opponents or political enemies. I mean, that is as undemocratic as it can possibly get. Like we are so far removed from being in a democracy when you have a president that has that kind of a power and wields it at will with no checks and balances. And so what happened here? Seven prosecutors said, listen, I'm not going to go into court and lie my ass off for you.

20:12I'm sorry, I'm not going to do it. We don't have the proof here to proceed with this case. And I'm not going to fade the heat because you've seen in other districts, the same thing happened and other Your lawyers get in trouble and get chastised and get brought before the court and they get ethics complaints and so forth. And they're just not doing it. And I don't blame them. All right. This is pretty upsetting stuff, but we do have autonomy and agency over voting. It's looking abysmal, the polling for the Republicans, and they know this. Stay locked in, stay engaged with independent media, both our channel and all of our friends, the guests on our show.

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