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Donald Trump Jr leapt to the defense of convicted rapist Russell Brand, telling his fans the British comedian had been crushed by a ‘two-tier justice system.’
Brand was sentenced Monday at a British court to 10 years and 6 months in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.
A jury convicted him just days earlier on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women, and cleared him on two further rape counts and one count of attempted indecent assault.
Trump Jr, 48, gave the monologue on his popular MAGA Rumble show beneath a headline that read ‘Britain’s Two-Tier Justice Exposed.’
The president’s eldest son claimed the evidence used for the verdict was not legitimate and suggested Brand was being punished because of his Christian faith and conservative politics.
‘He was convicted, by the way, with no forensic evidence, no DNA, no police report at the time, now decades old, to allegations dating back to 1999,’ Trump Jr said.
‘So when he was married to Katy Perry, he was one of the most famous actors in the world, no one seemed to have a problem, no one seemed to think he was a rapist then,’ he added.
The 1999 allegation Trump Jr built his argument on is the one charge Brand beat, an alleged rape in a Bournemouth hotel room during the Labour Party conference that the jury threw out.
Donald Trump Jr. filmed himself red-faced as he leapt to the defense of convicted rapist Russell Brand, telling his fans the British comedian had been crushed by a ‘two-tier justice system’
Brand was sentenced Monday at a British court to 10 years and 6 months in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others
The president’s eldest son claimed the evidence used for the verdict was not legitimate and suggested Brand was being punished because of his Christian faith
Brand’s rape conviction concerns a 21-year-old fan he met backstage at a west London comedy show in 2009 and anally raped at his home, roughly a year before he married Perry.
Judge Joel Bennathan told Brand he had shown a ‘casual and arrogant disregard’ for women and had become a sexual predator as his fame grew.
The judge also told him his testimony denying he ever touched a woman sexually without consent was one of a series of lies.
Megyn Kelly spent Monday’s edition of her SiriusXM show attacking the same sentence, branding it ‘a political witch hunt against Russell Brand.’
Kelly, who hosted Brand as a guest in April while he awaited trial, told listeners she did not believe the charges and reduced his convictions to groping, kissing and sniffing.
Trump Jr had already defended Brand in 2023, when the first allegations surfaced and Andrew Tate welcomed the comedian to ‘the club.’
Brand’s father, Ronald, told reporters outside court Monday that the accusers were ‘the girls who chased him and harassed him,’ and said the jury could have been corrupted.
London’s Metropolitan Police said Tuesday that more people have come forward with information or reported potential offenses since the verdict.
The eldest Trump son finished his remarks by questioning why Brand’s sentence ran longer than those handed to men convicted in Britain’s grooming gang cases.
