Fine Point W/ Guest Host Daniel Baldwin - Lacrosse Players Vindicated - W/ Vish Burra, 12/16/24

welcome back to fine point I'm your guest host Daniel Baldwin filling in the great Chanel Ron the woman in 2006 who claimed the three Duke University LaCrosse members raped her creating a national firestorm in the process has come forward and actually admitted that she made the whole thing up Crystal Mangum a stripper at the time had accused three players of rape and assault after she had been hired to dance at a house party the team was throwing Mangum told the let's talk with cat podcast as she made the whole thing up and now she wants forgiveness from the three men let's think back to that time at that time college students David Evans Colin fery and Reed Seligman were charged with rape and assault in 2006 in 2007 then attorney general Roy Cooper dismissed the charges after no DNA evidence was found but keep in mind this was a national Firestorm and not only did these three players come under the mass of mic microscope but also the school and the program as well Mangum at the time was profiting off of the book that she wrote about the events called The Last Dance Cooper chose not to charge her with perjury simply because he came to the conclusion that Mangum believed her own events of the tales and the story that she claimed happened Cooper is finishing out his tenure as the governor of North Carolina president-elect Donald Trump commented on the situation when speaking with reporters down in Mar Lago earlier today this I thought it was I thought it was a hoax when it happened the Duke situation I didn't believe the woman as you know and I you destroyed they destroyed the lives of these these kids they destroyed and I don't care what they got their lives have been destroyed their lives have been shortened by what took place and now the woman admitted that it never happened that is a horrible and as you know I took a lot of heat when I said that this is this did not happen and those kids were beautiful kids with beautiful families and they were in some cases will never be the same they will never be the same with mangum's Nu clear admission though what should happen moving forward that seems to be the big question and joining us now to help answer that is Vish burough he's the president of bassilus strategies former Capitol Hill staffer and longtime executive committee member of the New York young Republican Club Vish this was a story that the entire country was watching back then three young lives obviously destroyed at the time what's your general reaction to this woman coming forward now saying she made it all up well honestly first of all it's a Vindication for those players at the time uh you know even then she had basically come out and and admitted it but the fact of the matter is the damage was already done and this was at a time when you could say the mainstream media had a better hold more Integrity perhaps perceived integrity and so a lot of those initial stories and that Firestorm that that that happened around that case and around those those young men uh had sunk into the American public at large and their reputations really thoroughly destroyed and especially in the Advent of the internet at the time those Google hits were not going away there was no way to scrub it there was no alternative uh path to you know sort of flooding out those Google hits nothing like that and so what if you really think about it now she's asking for forgiveness well what what happens to those young men honestly I believe that because U Miss Magnum there had profited off of this situation profited off the stories then I believe that the uh Duke uh lacrosse players deserve some kind of reparations for her if there's money she made off the story that should go to them because their lives have been destroyed their careers have been destroyed reputation they don't even know the opportunities that they've been cut out of that's what's so Sinister about this right and so we need to see some kind of just it can't be just performative you can't just talk about it there has to be an action and I think that some kind of payback for these gentle for these young men some kind of reparations is definitely uh needed V she's currently in jail for the murder of her boyfriend that happened after in 2011 she was convicted of second deegree murder in 2013 sentenced to 14 to 18 years in prison but should this instance ultimately be a warning for all our viewers asking where one Amer news is heading in the future we would like to introduce you to o live o live is the best way to stay up toate on all of the hard-hitting straight shooting National and international headlines and the best part is oan live is only $4.99 per month all the credible honest unbiased reporting one americ news offers at a fraction of the cost of cable just go to oann.com to easily sign up for o live and stay informed