So, with the airing of the new documentary film, Leaving Neverland, people are ready to cancel Michael Jackson, with radio stations across the West vowing never to play his music again. Well, I just watched the movie, and I found the case against MJ deeply flawed. THREAD.
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Claims of child abuse against MJ are nothing new. From 1993 to his death he was dogged by accusations, and even subject to thorough investigations by both the FBI and LAPD. After a lengthy court trial, he was acquitted on all counts.
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Largely this was due to lack of evidence, but also because Jackson’s most damning accusers, some of whom he settled with out of court, had been exposed as frauds, such as Evan Chandler in this secret phone recording:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx8Z9fxxw-U …
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Despite Jackson being acquitted, many continued to believe he was guilty, citing the fact that in an interview with Martin Bashir he infamously said he saw nothing wrong with sharing his bed with kids. His supporters attributed this to his childlike naivety.
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In any case, him sharing his bed with kids, though disturbing, is not proof of him abusing kids, which is what the allegations in question are.
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So, what stunning new evidence does Leaving Neverland bring to light that has suddenly convinced so many that the FBI, police, judge and jury were wrong, and that MJ really was a child molester?
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The entire movie rests on the testimony of 2 men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who, long after defending MJ against allegations while under oath in court, now claim that they were, after all, abused by the “King of Pop”.
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Robson changed his story at aged 30. Safechuck was a little older.
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