Prosecution closes in Harvey Weinstein trial: 'Abusive rapist' relied on 'power, manipulation'

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The prosecution's closing argument was designed to undercut the seeds of doubt painstakingly planted by defense attorneys over three weeks of testimony.

In her closing arguments Friday, the lead prosecutor in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial proclaimed that power, manipulation and abuse — as well as a “lack of human empathy” — are what led the producer to the charges he now faces in Manhattan criminal court.

“He made sure he had contact with the people he was worried about as a little check to make sure that one day, they wouldn’t walk out from the shadows and call him exactly what he was: an abusive rapist,” she said. “He was wrong.”Advertisementand Jessica Mann kept in contact with Weinstein, and in some cases engaged in consensual sex with the producer after their alleged assaults.

 

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I realize WhiteAmerica gets tired of hearing this but it's true. If this was an African American man he'd be in prison for life. How the scales change for a 'rich white man' and we all know it's true.

Journalists need 2B better using sexualviolence language. As do prosecutors & judges esp when providing jury instructions!No longer exmogul but predator.Not 'He had sex' with victim when he raped or sexuallyassaulted women. We need more continuing education all fields!

And you know who ALSO needs mentalhealth treatment?! DonnaRotunno She's not unlike this egotistical maniac of a POTUS we have. Her rhetoric is dangerous. She is a danger to women and girls everywhere.She could provide a defense to HarveyWeinstein without defaming women!

Now I think we have a right to know what ALL the NDA agreements have to say about Bloomberg. We cannot allow the rich powerful people in our country to intimidate the innocent.

THE ASPIRING ACTRESS SLUTS DID HAVE SEX AND THEY WERE DOWN WITH IT 2 GET INTO FILMS AND NOW THEY WANT $$$$$!!! BUNCH OF DIRTY SLUTS HAVE NO MORALS/SAME GOES 4 THE MEDIA!!!

Absolutely

But you guys worship animals like weinstein.... Now taste that, which you have valued and earned

I met have once in a resteraunt in NY,I was there with my wife,he took time out to speak to us and was a wonderful guy,when we came to leave I asked for the cheque,it's all taken care of by Mr Weinstein sir,came the reply,he'd only of paid out bill of 150 dollars,what a guy

Have some shame you horrible person and admit wrong doing. Then you may be forgiven by the victims. Have no words 🤷‍♀️

His face is abusive. Looks like he stuck it in a hornet's nest!

F ck Harvey

It sounds like he's going to walk.

GPS his walker to his jail cell.

He’s a serial rapist. Throw him in a dark hole and lose the key.

Weinstein is a dirtbag but so are the women who slept with him to get roles in his movies.

And serial sexual predator.

The only person who got abused here is Weinstein.

He’ll only get parole🤷🏽‍♂️ Everybody knows it’s coming..

As opposed to non-abusive rapist?

When are All the Victims of Trump the Sex Predator getting their Day in Court?!! TrumpCrimeFamily Must GO! UnfitToBePresident ETTD

AdvocatAmy1 He might get away with it, guys.

Gotta love the grandma's push cart he probably stole from some little ol lady😂😂 with tennis balls

He was a sick man! Oprah found him women.

They knew

We must remember who all his friends were

Sad. Still.

Do I believe Weinstein was predatory and used his status to manipulate women? Yes. Do I also believe some women ‘played the game’ to gain star power? Yes. Do I also believe some women were victims to his manipulations? Yes. All of these things can co-exist.

I think they’ll have a hard time getting a conviction if your account of their story is right.

Casting Couch isnt Rape. That's Voluntary Prostitution.

Harvey Weinstein is going to get away with all of this and then amazingly no longer going to need his walker. It's a sympathy ploy, this feeble old man couldn't be guilty of rape, look at him, he's old. Whites going to get away with everything as always

Aren’t all rapists abusive? He’s not a regular rapists he’s an abusive one

What he did was wrong But those actresses didn’t have to do anything but they did. just saying. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Is there an unabusive rapist?

If this guy doesn’t get the chair, he’s not getting enough!!

FirstThem metoo

Its true hes that and worse throw away the key

Of course he would he / she would say that they get paid to put people in the system to earn the system money !

The prop walker is priceless.

Is realDonaldTrump ever going to go to trail? Haven’t there been like 20 women you have claimed he sexually assaulted them?

Side note... is she a relative because the resemblance to his hideousness is striking

DID THEY LIE?!?!

Is he still using his walker gimmick? I hope he and his defense know that isnt working. Maybe if we bring back the Judas cradle then hell need it.

Horse shit!

He didn’t abuse or rape, those women willingly accepted to have sex with him for a role in Hollywood and that’s it he may ne a dangerous man with too much deprivation

Not guilty

I hope he rots in jail

GayleKing ava Oprah and companie would beg to differ though

Give me a break. These women wanted movie parts & money. No one goes back to their Rapist or introduce them to their mother. It’s Prostitution in a Grandeur form

Q: In this context, is 'abusive rapist' a legal distinction, like 'forcible rape?' Because I'm not aware of a lot of harmless rapists...

Harvey Weinstein trial: 'Abusive rapist' relied on 'power, manipulation'

Miramax xzibit so?, the indvstry vvorkplace itself is held completely vnaccovntable vvaitaminvte

.GayleKing where you at, bro?

Such a disgusting person. Of course he is a friend of Trump

Probably best to make an example of this guy...would be a bad look to be easy on him while shutting door on Cosby.

Did y’all face swap that poor lady? Even she looks like a rapist.

The prosecution said that to finish up a trial? Well no shit.

Somebody rapes you .but you keep coming back..hard for men to understand that..just change careers

From the White House . . Harvey is such a wonderful man, a good friend . .

Listen here: Ann McElhinney & Phelim McAleer, NYT's best selling authors,producers of Frack Nation, Gosnell Movie, verbatim stage plays Ferguson & FBI Lovebirds (Page & Strzok) are covering the trial in a verbatim play read daily from the trial transcripts

And he relied on the support of Hollywood. Actors and actresses and directors protected him.

Since the start of the movie industry there have been Fat,bald, greasy directors, producers, casting directors using the lure of money to perpetrate these voluntary acts! Why now? Why this guy? This was a coordinated effort by the women involved!

Harvey Weinstein is a serial rapist and sociopath.

Should we arrest all of Hollywood for being complicit ? everyone knew about him and didn’t say anything and you think that’s acceptable?

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