Title: Royal Family Biographer Defends Prince Andrew: ‘Soliciting Sex From Minors is Not Pedophilia’ Source:
The Mind Unleashed URL Source:https://themindunleashed.com/2019/1 ... her-defends-prince-andrew.html Published:Nov 18, 2019 Author:John Vibes Post Date:2019-11-19 16:32:01 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:826 Comments:1
(TMU) Biographer for the Royal Family, Lady Colin Campbell, recently appeared on ITVs Good Morning Britain where she defended Prince Andrew against claims of pedophilia.
In her defense of the disgraced prince, Campbell pointed to the prostitution charge that Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of in 2008, and attempted to downplay the fact that the girls were underage by suggesting that he was simply hiring sex workers.
You all seem to have forgotten that Jeffrey Epstein, the offense for which he was charged and for which he was imprisoned, was for soliciting prostitution from minors. That is not the same thing as pedophilia, Campbell told a shocked panel Monday morning.
Host Piers Morgan immediately challenged her claims, saying:
If you solicited a 14-year-old for prostitution, youre a pedophile.
Youre procuring an underage girl for sex. Thats what he was convicted of. Im sorry, Im sorry, with respect, that is nonsense.
Campbell then immediately attempted to backpedal, claiming that a distinction must be made between a minor and a child.
Was he? 14? Well, Im not justifying Jeffrey Epstein. Pedophilia, I suspect theres a difference between a minor and a child, she said.
A 14-year-old is a child. Legally, shes a child, Morgan replied.
Campbell then admitted that the prince may have made many mistakes, but insisted that his only mistake was being too clueless to realize that one of his closest friends was a predator.
You cant criticize someone because they arent as bright as you would like them to be, she said.
The controversy surrounding Prince Andrew has grown since his Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis. In the interview, the prince gave a variety of bizarre excuses and defenses for the accusations against him, including a claim that he could not sweat due to a rare physical condition.
He also denied knowing about the trafficking victim, Virginia Giuffreformerly known as Virginia Robertsdespite appearing in photos with her when she was under the age of 18. However, he has previously suggested that these photos are doctored. Photographic evidence has been uncovered showing that the prince does, in fact, sweat. He also claimed that even though he did not remember meeting the victim on the night that she said, he does vividly remember his alibi, saying he went to a Pizza Express in Woking before returning home that night.
Going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do. Ive never been Ive only been to Woking a couple of times and I remember it weirdly distinctly, he said.
The interview was so disastrous for the Royal Family that one of Prince Andrews PR advisors quit in response to the broadcast. And to make matters even worse, a video clip from 1984 recently resurfaced showing Johnny Carson, then-host of The Tonight Show, making a joke about Prince Andrew being a pedophile.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) fired off a letter to ABC News President James Goldston demanding to know why the network shelved a story on Jeffrey Epstein after an accuser gave a detailed interview with reporter Amy Robach.
Robach was featured earlier this month on an undercover video released by Project Veritas, in which she reveals she had the Epstein story three years ago, but that it was shelved because she was told no one knows who [Epstein] is, and that it was a stupid story. She also alleged that Epstein might have been murdered according to the Washington Examiner.
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