Not really. Cahill is a bit of a fantasist and Eilis O’Hanlon was orchestrating the whole thing behind the scenes for cynical political purposes. Cahill has flitted between Sinn Fein and then hardcore Republican groups which wanted a return to violence (she was a member of one of them until as late as 2012 if I remember rightly), to Labour, to whoever.
Her online behaviour has been not far off Gemma O’Doherty-esque and she shows distinct signs of being unstable.
None of that means I disbelieve her story that she was raped. I absolutely believe her when she says she was and it’s highly likely that her unstable nature is as a result her ordeals when she was being abused.
However the fact of it is, she had a chance to have her day in court and didn’t turn up for it, yet a few months later felt able to be paraded by Enda Kenny outside the Dail on national television.
I’d love to know your reaction if the complainant at the centre of the Belfast trial was paraded around the Dail by Leo Varadkar and everybody told that she had not got justice, because there’s effectively no difference between that and what Enda Kenny did.
Juries have to convict beyond reasonable doubt. It’s perfectly reasonable to have the private opinion that somebody committed a crime even if there wasn’t enough evidence to convict them as guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
We know there wasn’t enough evidence to convict Kavanaugh in a court of law beyond reasonable doubt. That wasn’t the point. The point was that there were multiple highly credible accusations against him that he had committed sexual assault. A supreme court judge cannot have those doubts about their character and behaviour hanging over them. The Republicans did not take those highly credible accusations in any way seriously. behaved in an utterly disgraceful manner which insulted and kicked dirt in the face of every woman in the USA and they should never, ever be let forget it.
The case against Jussie Smollett collapsed almost immediately. There is quite simply no case against him, he has been exonerated and he is innocent - end of.
The absolute humiliation of those who had him judged and convicted based on nothing other than wanting to see a prominent black man go down (hello @anon7035031) is just a delicious by-product of his exoneration.
Another rush to judgement by @Sidney According to the state’s attorney “we dropped the charges in return for his agreement to do community service and forfeit his bond. We didn’t exonerate him”.
I don’t - that’s the point - but it flew over your head like that jumbo jet flew over Ellis Park before the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, hence your only managing a dumb one sentence blusterous response.
Fox News’s top legal analyst, Andrew Napolitano, says that Barr’s completely biased summary means that the Mueller report “undoubtedly” DID find evidence of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
That’s FOX NEWS - which has acted as effectively a North Korean-style state television network for Trump.
So, where’s that Mueller report again?
Oh yeah, Republicans have vowed that it will NEVER see the light of day.
Barr was handpicked by Trump because he had stated last summer that the Mueller investigation should be shut down. And that’s what he did. And it’s what he whitewashed.
And that’s what Republicans were clamouring for him to do.
Work it out, pal. If even Trump’s equivalent of North Korean state TV is admitting that Barr’s summary is bullshit written by a handpicked lackey, it is.
If there was a sentence in the entire report that exonerated Trump, Barr would have quoted it in big bold letters, with the entire page it was on for context. There is no such quote.
We have 64 words from the report (just for context, there are 111 words in this post). We don’t even have one full sentence. If this is best a lackey brought in specifically to whitewash the report can do, the report is good for Trump, not good at all.
Here’s State Attorney Kim Foxx reluctantly admitting that she believes Jussie Smollett is guilty of the crimes he was charged with, and yet she dropped charges. The FBI are now looking into the details as to why charges were dropped, this one is going to get ugly real fast.
I have worked it out. I have no idea who the author is, but the article you posted is one of the worst pieces of"journalism" I have ever read. It’s actually stunning that a even pretend journalist would quote it. Have a listen to the actual interview and then ask yourself whether you would write that article with that headline. If the answer is yes, you should hand your degrees back.
If you still can’t figure it out, I’ll try and explain it to you.
Careful now or you’ll turn into one of them Nazis.