Lionel Nation - Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction OVERTURNED?! The Truth They’re NOT Telling You!
Aired: 2025-04-16
Duration: 10:41


=== Case And Evidence (10:40) ===

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[00:01:31]  All right, well, Harvey Weinstein is being retried this week in New York.
[00:01:35]  Being against him seemed like an open and shut case that basically launched us into the Me Too era.
[00:01:42]  But something that was not obvious to everyone is that he may not have had a fair trial.
[00:01:47]  And we're not advocating for Harvey Weinstein.
[00:01:49]  We're advocating for equal justice under the law.
[00:01:52]  What is there that the mainstream media won't tell us about?
[00:01:55]  Well, Lionel from Lionel Nation is a litigator and constitutional expert.
[00:02:00]  His Lionel Nation YouTube channel breaks all this down.
[00:02:02]  He's been following Weinstein.
[00:02:03]  He's been following Diddy.
[00:02:05]  He's been following Epstein.
[00:02:06]  So, Lionel, thank you for joining us.
[00:02:08]  What is there to retry in the Weinstein case?
[00:02:16]  Oh, I don't hear you.
[00:02:17]  Do you hear him?
[00:02:18]  Oh, he's muted.
[00:02:19]  Oh.
[00:02:21]  Thank you.
[00:02:23]  Thank you.
[00:02:26]  No, not yet.
[00:02:27]  There we go!
[00:02:28]  There we go!
[00:02:30]  All right, yeah, what's there to be seen?
[00:02:32]  Yes, in the case of Harvey Epstein, which I think is a perfect truncation of both of them, here's the bottom line.
[00:02:40]  The reason why this was overturned, and I'm 100% for it, is that there is something in law called prior or similar fact evidence.
[00:02:50]  And in New York, there was a case in 1901 called the Molyneux case.
[00:02:54]  And what it means is this.
[00:02:56]  If you, as a prosecutor, have to prove something like intent or plan or lack of mistake, I can use your prior instances of wrongdoing.
[00:03:08]  That you have not been charged with to make a case.
[00:03:11]  Let's say, for example, Natalie, you're charged with arson.
[00:03:14]  And in prior arsons, you used a particular way of taking baby dolls and soaking them in gasoline.
[00:03:22]  This is actually kind of an example that's used.
[00:03:24]  And you had this unique MO, this thing that you did every time you left playing cards and a note.
[00:03:32]  And we don't know who it is this time, but this arsonist...
[00:03:36]  Did exactly what you did in a prior case.
[00:03:40]  Under the cases of similar fact evidence, I can bring that before a jury to say, see, this is Natalie, because this behavior is similar to other behavior that she might not have been charged with.
[00:03:55]  That makes sense.
[00:03:56]  If there's confusion, if there's a reason.
[00:03:59]  In the case of Harvey Weinstein, why do we have evidence for cases of other women?
[00:04:05]  Claiming he attempted to abuse them.
[00:04:08]  What's the purpose of this?
[00:04:10]  There was no question as to who it was.
[00:04:12]  It was Harvey Weinstein.
[00:04:14]  He didn't have a unique M.O. He didn't say anything.
[00:04:17]  There was no evidence.
[00:04:19]  There was no benefit other than to tell the jury, where there's smoke, there's fire.
[00:04:25]  And if you don't find them guilty of this one, well, this no-good SOB did this in the past.
[00:04:31]  And that is precisely what the appellate court said.
[00:04:35]  Other people are saying, no, no, no, this is an attempt to address the Me Too movement, and I'm all for that.
[00:04:43]  But the problem is when relevant evidence, so-called relevant evidence, is so prejudicial that a jury says, well, you didn't tell me about these other cases.
[00:04:54]  Well, he must be guilty then.
[00:04:56]  And that's where we're headed.
[00:04:58]  So I don't like him, and between you and me, he probably did everything they said he did.
[00:05:05]  Oh, 80 women?
[00:05:06]  We've heard about this creep, but this is a courtroom.
[00:05:10]  Whether it's Donald Trump or Harvey Weinstein or anybody, you have to ask yourself, why are we talking about this case with these victims, this evidence, now?
[00:05:21]  Who cares what he did before?
[00:05:24]  If I could give one more example, that happens all the time.
[00:05:28]  In the case where there's a terrible case, let's say of a child who's murdered, this happens more often than not.
[00:05:34]  You have to identify the body.
[00:05:37]  You have to identify the deceased.
[00:05:39]  In the old days, prosecutors would show the worst picture, the most horrible picture of the child, let's say, in the morgue, to, let's say, a mother.
[00:05:49]  The mother would scream, that's my baby!
[00:05:52]  And courts would say, wait a minute, that's relevant, of course, the identity of the deceased, but this outweighs any prejudice towards the defendant.
[00:06:01]  We have to balance this.
[00:06:03]  I don't care if you're Son of Sam, Harvey Weinstein, or Harvey Epstein, or anybody for that matter.
[00:06:08]  You don't need this.
[00:06:10]  Why don't we just take the words of these women alone?
[00:06:13]  Tell me what happened.
[00:06:15]  Where were you?
[00:06:16]  But how can they do that, though?
[00:06:18]  Because every juror...
[00:06:20]  Is going to know the reputation of Harvey Weinstein.
[00:06:23]  So you can't say, forget that he ejaculated into a plant or was mean to Salma Hayek and abused her on set or anything.
[00:06:32]  And let's just see, did he do this thing to this one victim and was it rape?
[00:06:37]  They may not know that.
[00:06:39]  I'm sure, listen, this idea of people, everybody is, do you think Diddy can get a fair trial?
[00:06:45]  Do you think, you know, the last time we ever had a change of venue, remember that relic from time gone by?
[00:06:51]  I think the best case ever was, this is before your time, Murph the Surf.
[00:06:56]  This guy was so, they, son of Sam Shepard was another case where the, you know, the evidence.
[00:07:04]  Do you think O.J. Simpson, do you think today, In this world of social media that we live in, anybody can go anywhere?
[00:07:12]  Of course not.
[00:07:13]  But it's one thing, Natalie, to say, oh, I remember the thing about the planter or about this.
[00:07:20]  Or maybe I don't.
[00:07:21]  But when I have women in a courtroom who said, well, let me tell you something.
[00:07:27]  You're on trial for parking tickets.
[00:07:31]  And somebody brings up the fact that you were charged with shoplifting at a Costco.
[00:07:36]  Wait a minute.
[00:07:36]  What does that have to do with anything?
[00:07:38]  It shows a criminal propensity.
[00:07:40]  Well, that is verboten.
[00:07:43]  Now, I know this guy is a creep, but here's the question.
[00:07:46]  What defense does he have?
[00:07:48]  You don't need to do this.
[00:07:50]  Put a woman on the stand and say, here's what happened.
[00:07:53]  This is what he did.
[00:07:55]  This is where I was.
[00:07:56]  This is what he told me.
[00:07:57]  And that's it.
[00:07:58]  Harvey's not going to take this can to refute it.
[00:08:00]  You don't need this overkill.
[00:08:03]  And plus, let me ask you this.
[00:08:05]  What about having women outside the courtroom chanting his name?
[00:08:11]  Chanting, you know, basically, hang him.
[00:08:13]  It's like a lynch mob outside.
[00:08:15]  Do you think anybody deserves that?
[00:08:17]  Now, it's hard to tell people.
[00:08:18]  Outside, whether you can protest or not.
[00:08:21]  But when it seeps through the windows, I mean, listen, you're going to find the guy guilty.
[00:08:27]  Give him at least a chance.
[00:08:29]  And I'm not suggesting he has any kind of a defense there is.
[00:08:32]  But this similar fact of it is prosecutors are too lazy with it.
[00:08:37]  There has to be a reason, especially if there's a case it has come in handy before where you have somebody who is, let's say, kidnapped.
[00:08:45]  They can't ID the defendant.
[00:08:48]  He wore a mask.
[00:08:50]  Well, in this other case, he wore the identical mask, people.
[00:08:54]  So that makes sense.
[00:08:55]  But even he deserves this.
[00:08:58]  And let me tell you something.
[00:08:59]  He and Diddy and others, once you're charged, let's face it, you're through.
[00:09:06]  You are done.
[00:09:08]  You're finished.
[00:09:09]  And I'm going to say the worst thing, friends, that...
[00:09:12]  Harvey Weinstein has so little jury appeal.
[00:09:15]  He's hideous.
[00:09:17]  He's disgusting.
[00:09:18]  There's nothing about him.
[00:09:20]  He's no Luigi Mangioni.
[00:09:23]  There's nobody out there.
[00:09:25]  Taylor Lorenz is in love with him.
[00:09:26]  Maybe she would.
[00:09:30]  The criminal justice defines and requires that we give people a fair trial.
[00:09:35]  Not a perfect trial, but a fair trial.
[00:09:39]  Give the guy a break.
[00:09:41]  You don't need three witnesses.
[00:09:43]  Yeah.
[00:09:44]  Yeah.
[00:09:45]  Well, we got to leave it there, Lionel.
[00:09:46]  We are such a jam-packed show for you.
[00:09:47]  But I think you're right, and I think you're absolutely right that he is a hideous human being.
[00:09:53]  He's a hideous-looking human being.
[00:09:54]  A lot of people in the chat are like, wow, that guy is just repugnant on every level he is.
[00:10:00]  I hope you're not talking about it.
[00:10:01]  I guess the question, though, that still remains is, though, if they did not give him a fair trial, if they sold us this, you know, Worse than he already was story.
[00:10:13]  To what end?
[00:10:14]  What were they manipulating us to rally around the Me Too movement?
[00:10:19]  What did we get from it and what weren't we told?
[00:10:21]  So those are questions we'll continue to explore.
[00:10:24]  Again, we're not advocating for Harvey Weinstein.
[00:10:26]  We're asking what were we collectively invited to champion and to what end and who gained power from it?
[00:10:32]  So those are the outstanding questions.
[00:10:34]  Lionel, great to see you.
[00:10:35]  Thank you so much on a busy news day on this Tuesday.
[00:10:38]  We appreciate it.
[00:10:39]  It's always great to see you.
[00:10:40]  Thank you, friends.