New York Governor Kathy Hochul is a joke. She is a pathetic, feckless, weakling activist, who it is such an offense to me and to womankind. I cannot believe she is the governor of New York, and she has now appointed someone even more abhorrent and hateful than she is, Letitia James, the attorney general in New York, as special prosecutor in the “Cornell Seven” case.
What that means is these boys are effed.
The original district attorney in Ithaca, New York, who was going to take this to a grand jury in Ithaca and let it decide whether charges were appropriate (p.s. they’re not), has now had this case stolen from him and given to partisan hack Letitia James, of Trump harassment fame, the one who tried to bankrupt him and said she had her eyes on his buildings, basically salivating at the thought of taking his hard-earned fortune away from him. She is a villain.
Latest Reporting
A stunning report in The New York Times is revealing what the Chi Phi fraternity brothers told university investigators. Four of the seven admitted to sexual contact with the alleged victim. We knew that. There were three threesomes over the course of the evening involving four men. There are seven men total, so there are three other men who were in that room, at some point that night, but did not have sex with this woman.
They are denying anything non-consensual and so are the ones who had the three threesomes with her. They are all saying that there was nothing that was non-consensual. To the contrary, they are saying she did consent, and the majority of those interviewed during this proceeding also said that “Jane Doe” did not even appear intoxicated.
One fraternity brother, Gillio Lopes, whose attorney appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show Thursday, said it was the alleged victim who initiated sexual contact with him and that it was not asked for, according to The New York Times.
The Controversial Appointment
But you didn’t hear any of that from Friday morning’s press conference with Hochul and James. You didn’t hear about any of the exonerating information about these boys. Here’s Hochul describing what she says happened:
HOCHUL: According to new reports, she could not have been clearer that she was 100 percent confident that she had been raped. Yet, shockingly, those words never made it into the account that the Cornell police sent to prosecutors. The attorney general then declined to pursue charges after reviewing that incomplete account and never interviewing her. Think about that. In what world would the police learn from a victim that she’d been literally gang-raped while intoxicated by five men in a fraternity house, and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney? In what world does the district attorney not even interview her, or anyone else involved, or even request the full transcript? This woman, this young woman, had already endured something that is utterly unspeakable, and then at every turn, she was failed by people and institutions with an obligation to protect her.
Way to keep an open mind, you utter hack. This is so irresponsible for the governor of the state, in which these boys are now almost certainly going to get charged, to be using rhetoric like that–announcing in advance that she is the victim, that the system had an obligation to protect her and it failed. Imagine your son gets accused by somebody on a college campus and the governor of the state comes out and announces him guilty before there has even been a grand jury empaneled. This is so wrong.
Despite being selective with how she describes the case, Hochul promises us that Letitia James is super ready to follow the facts:
HOCHUL: That is why I’m invoking the power conferred to me as the governor of the state of New York to enlist Attorney General James as an independent special prosecutor in this case. She’ll follow the facts, she’ll examine the evidence, and go wherever it leads. And if the evidence supports criminal charges, she will pursue them. No institution gets to protect its reputation at the expense of a young person seeking justice. No public official gets to look the other way when the system breaks down and fails our young people.
Hochul did not have a good answer–you will be shocked to learn–on why on earth Tish James can be trusted to fairly helm this case, given that she, Tish James, has already pronounced these young men guilty. Here is one honest reporter who actually asked the two how they can possibly be fair given their statements around this case:
REPORTER: Attorney General, on your Facebook page three days ago, you wrote, “What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable. I’m holding her in my heart and in my prayers. To her and to all survivors: You’re not alone. We stand with you.” But why did you affirm her allegations as fact without doing your own fact-finding investigation? And to the governor: Why did you appoint an official who made a public statement affirming those allegations as fact as someone who’s supposed to be doing an investigation?
HOCHUL: I will answer that. I have every confidence in our attorney general to do what she has always done: look at the facts, examine the record, and draw the proper conclusions. That’s exactly what’s going to happen in this case.
REPORTER: Attorney General?
JAMES: I will not comment on a Facebook post.
She is acting like some random person on X said something controversial. No, you got on Facebook, Tish James, and rushed to judgment before the D.A. had even convened a grand jury. What do you mean you are taking the ‘high road’ and won’t comment? You made the Facebook post, so you must comment on it. You have revealed that you have chosen a side in this case.
A prosecutor’s obligation is to seek justice, not to choose one side or the other. If justice requires no charges be brought, or even charges that have been brought get dropped, that is what a prosecutor’s ethical obligation is or she could be disbarred. She could actually be disbarred.
Ask Mike Nifong, the D.A. in the fake Duke lacrosse rape case. Why did he lose his license? Because he did not seek justice at every turn as evidence of exoneration of the boys emerged. Any sane prosecutor, never mind an ethical one, would have dropped the case. Instead, he didn’t and he lost his law license and served a day in jail over this.
That is where I would love to see you, Tish James. By the way, how are your multiple mortgages for your multiple homes that you claimed were all your primary residence? She is a dishonest hack. She is worse than that governor who walked around for two years with “vaxed” in gold on her necklace, who only got the job because sex pest Andrew Cuomo got forced out of office. That is the only reason Kathy Hochul became governor. She is respected by no one.
‘The Fix Is In’
The fix is in. I am seriously concerned for these seven young men who appear to have engaged in a night of debauchery, sent out–in the case of one or two of them–stupid, offensive text messages, and now are about to stare down the possibility of decades in prison because of those two women.
Not convinced? This is Tish James last night speaking about the case on Spectrum News, just hours before she was appointed special prosecutor:
JAMES: So let me just say, my heart goes out to the victim, the survivor, and I stand with her and all individuals who, unfortunately, have been the victims of sexual assault… and we look forward to the outcome and to ensure that, in fact, justice is served and there’s accountability for the survivor.
It’s done. Their goose is cooked. She just said it explicitly: She stands with the survivor. Her heart is with the survivor, and she is going to find justice for the survivor.
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