Speaker 1: Everyone is, of course, presumed innocent until proven guilty.
And that applies to Russell Brand, now accused of rape, sexual assault of a minor, multiple
alleged victims.
But I have to tell you, I'm going to give you my opinion because this is not a court
of law.
This is just a podcast.
It's me sitting in a room with some acoustic foam panels, a microphone and a couple of
very low end lights.
I we operate in the court of public opinion here, and Russell Brand's defenses against
these explosive allegations are not feeling particularly strong.
So let's go back to the beginning.
Let me tell you what's going on.
Dozens of you, literally dozens, if you can imagine writing to me about this story over
the weekend.
The Guardian reports.
Russell Brand, accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse claims related to a seven
year period are detailed in the Times and Channel four investigation after the actor
had already denied allegations.
These allegations relate to the time period 26 to 2013.
Five alleged victims, four Anonymous, were interviewed in the Dispatches documentary
aired Saturday night.
The Times titles said that they contacted the media personalities representatives with
details of the allegations as well as information to help them recall the incidents in question
in advance of its planned publication, giving them eight days to respond.
Brands Lawyers initially claimed they to be unable to do so because of the large litany
of questions and the decision to agree to the woman's requests to anonymize them, according
to the paper's report.
One of the women said Brand entered into a relationship with her while she while he was
31 and she was a 16 year old schoolgirl.
She reportedly said he referred to her as the child during an alleged emotionally abusive
and controlling three month relationship.
She told Dispatches the presenter once forced his penis down her throat, making her choke,
which led her to punch him in the stomach to make him stop.
This is very serious stuff.
Another woman alleged Brand raped her in 2012 in his Los Angeles home, adding she received
treatment at a rape crisis center the same day.
So, listen, the allegations are endless.
We don't need every bit of lurid and prurient detail here.
Suffice it to say, multiple alleged victims, very specific allegations.
Okay.
So where do we go next?
These are allegations and allegations alone are not guilt.
We all know that in the American justice system, you are presumed innocent until you have been
found guilty.
However, I also give my opinion about things, and it's just not the biggest shock to me
when I hear this.
I don't go.
No, it cannot be.
It cannot possibly be Russell Brand.
And two things I find particularly odd are the strange cuts during a video where he denies
everything and also his suggestion that they are worried about him and need to take him
down a peg.
Those allegations also don't make a lot of sense.
So let's dig into it.
And every single one of you can form whatever opinion you want.
Remember, if you're going to write to me saying, David, you're denying him due process.
He's not even been charged with a crime.
This is all in the court of public opinion.
So let's simmer down.
Emails saying, David, you're denying him due process will be flushed 10 to 15 times.
Don't even bother.
Okay.
We're all just giving our opinions.
Here is the denial video from Russell Brand.
Speaker 4: Hello there, you awakening wonders.
Now, this isn't the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack
and undermine the news in all its corruption.
Because in this story I am the news.
I've received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email, one from a mainstream
media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive
attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuff like a my community festival should be stopped,
that I shouldn't be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.
But amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks, also very serious allegations
that I absolutely refute, okay, these allegations pertain to the time when I was working in
the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies.
And as I've written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous.
Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always
consensual.
I was always okay.
Speaker 1: Now there was a cut there.
If you were listening and not watching, you might not realize that between always and
consensual, there is a cut.
That's a really weird place to cut and stitch together videos.
We'll get back to that.
Speaker 4: Transparent about that, then almost to transparent.
And I'm being transparent about it now as well.
And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely
deny makes me.
QUESTION Is there another agenda at play, particularly when we've seen coordinated media
attacks before, like with Joe Rogan, when he dared to take a medicine that the mainstream
media didn't approve of?
And we saw a spate of headlines from media outlets across the world using the same language.
I'm aware that you guys have been saying in the comments for a while, Watch out, Russell.
They're coming for you.
You're getting too close to the truth.
Russell Brand did not kill himself.
I know that a year ago there was a spate of articles.
Russell Brand's a conspiracy theorist.
Russell Brand's right wing.
I'm aware of news media making phone calls, sending letters to people I know for ages
and ages.
It's been clear to me, or at least it feels to me like there's a serious and concerted
agenda to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices.
And I mean, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So listen, there are two things here that just don't make sense to
me.
Two things that don't make sense.
First of all, why is there a cut between always and consensual?
The audio is totally fluid, but the video is not.
Personally, I would have redone the shot rather than have quite literally a jump cut between
every relationship I've been in.
Has all of the relationships have been always consensual?
It's a really weird place to cut it.
Let me play that for you again.
Speaker 4: Relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.
Speaker 1: Okay.
And you can see the trees in the background are behaving in a different way.
It's a very strange cut.
So that to me is is not just number one.
It's a weird thing.
It's not proof of anything.
And remember, he hasn't been charged with any crimes.
But then there's this other thing where they want to silence me.
It's just they don't.
I'm having too much of an influence.
It doesn't make sense.
Russell Brand's channel is notably smaller than mine, but by in terms of views like he
gets 35% fewer views than I get.
Would any of you find it credible if five people accused me of sexual assault, rape?
And I said to you, You know what?
They're coming after me because I'm getting too influential.
My political opponents want to silence me.
I have too big of an audience.
If I said that, you would rightly say, David, No, you don't.
And his audience is 35% smaller.
So it's all very strange.
Now, Tucker Carlson says that all of these women are accusing Russell Brand because he's
anti-vax and he doesn't support Ukraine, which is a certainly equally strange thing to say.
Tucker tweeting, criticize the drug company, Drug companies, question the war in Ukraine,
and you can be pretty sure this is going to happen.
Same idea.
He's just saying.
All the things you're not allowed to say.
Alex Jones says he's become friends with Russell Brand over the years and he says he women
throw themselves out of Why on earth would he have to sexually assault anybody?
Speaker 5: I know Russell Brand personally.
I knew him back.
He was married to Katy Perry.
He's come on the show a few times.
We've hung out some in Austin.
I've never seen women throw themselves at anybody, like with him.
And I mean, I've seen the old footage of Elvis with women over panties off, thrown him.
Right.
It's like that guy at restaurants at one of those events I went to.
It was literally women jumping at a guy.
And he's a big guy in person.
Speaker 1: Big, strong guy, burly man.
Speaker 5: No one ever accused him for the last 15 years of assault because he's a big
sweetheart.
And now because he comes out against big Pharma, they're not against the globalist.
He comes.
Speaker 1: There you go.
He's against the global ish globalist, internationalist Trotskyite social.
Okay.
You know, this is one that's been tried before and it's very shaky.
Why would any famous man ever need to sexually assault anyone when there are so many women
throwing themselves at them?
Okay, well, that that we actually have an answer because some of those men have explained,
oh, it actually gets boring having women throwing themselves at you.
So you need a rush in a different way.
So then you may go over the line into sexual assault or whatever.
So it's a very weak defense.
And then Elon Musk, lastly, I guess, suggesting that whoever accused Russell Brand must be
doing it because they are actually the rapists and sexual assaulters and they want to monopolize
rape.
Elon Musk tweeting, Of course, they don't like competition.
Really weird stuff so everybody judge for themselves.
None of this is evidence of criminal guilt, and none of this should be used to deny Russell
Brand due process if indeed he is charged.
But some really strange defenses, very strange jump cuts in the denial video.
It's all really weird.
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