Jameis Winston is one of the best college quarterbacks in the country, he’s also one of the dumbest when it comes to fighting off false allegations of rape.
When Jameis Winston was accused and then acquitted of raping a fellow student back in December 2013, there were some who believed Winston was innocent and those who believed he had gotten off the hook for a reprehensible crime.
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Unsurprisingly, Winston is not in the latter category of people, as he firmly believes he was falsely accused of the most heinous thing a man can do to a women short of murdering her. Winston is so utterly convinced that he was falsely accused of rape that he made the absolutely atrocious analogy of himself being raped by his accuser.
Winston and his attorney didn’t directly say that Winston feels raped but they pretty much stopped as short as you can, with their noses sticking over the fence like Tim Allen’s neighbor on Home Improvement.
According to documents that actually exist from a man Winston is paying to preserve his character, Winston’s attorney advised him to say that to be falsely accused of rape is basically the same thing as being raped. Such a thing is so stupendously stupid on so many levels it’s almost impossible to comprehend that as a sentence.
Really, that was something Winston actually said:
"Rape is a vicious crime. The only thing as vicious as rape is falsely accusing someone of rape. (NAME REDACTED) and her lawyers have falsely accused me, threatened to sue me, demanded $7,000,000 from me, engaged in a destructive media campaign against me, and manipulated this process to the point that my rights have and will continue to be severely compromised. (NAME REDACTED) and her lawyers’ public campaign to vilify me guarantees that her false allegations will follow me for the rest of my life."
Of the steaming pile of bullsh-t things that Winston has said, this is the turd at the top of the sundae. He may be innocent when all is said and done, but that was such an unfortunate combination of words that it sours whatever victory Winston may have.
The idea is to get the court and the people to like you, not feels sick that you’re getting off and showboating on your way to the judicial end zone. That’s what Winston his doing, but he’s stopping and starting his celebration the way a teenager learns how to drive. It’s clear that Winston will not be charged — if at all — until after the college football playoffs and just before he declares for the NFL Draft.
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