"I don’t consider him a rapist. He didn’t rape a 13-year-old, it was statutory rape, all right? That’s not quite the same thing, all right? That’s statutory rape, you know, he had sex with a, with a minor, all right? That’s not rape. To me, when you use the word rape … … You’re talking about violent, throwing them down, it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world. You can’t throw, you know, throwing the word rape around is like throwing the word racist around, all right? You know, it just doesn’t apply to everything that people use it for, all right? You know, he was, he’s guilty of having sex with a minor. She wanted to have it, and dated … dated, dated the guy … … and found out—well, yeah, by the way, we’re talking about America’s morals, we’re not talking about the morals in Europe and everything, all right? Look. She was down with it. And she’s talked about it, she’s talked about it. Now, now that she’s an adult. I’m, I’m right. She’s talked about it since, about, “No, he didn’t really do anything to me, it was a technicality from being 13.” The transcripts are like, now she’s trying to take care of her mom, who’s pissed off at her, so now she’s saying this, she’s saying that, now that she’s an adult— her mom is now on her, she has to say, “He did this, he did that.” Now that she’s an adult, she’s got a whole different story. Now, if you were going to really do equal time, you’d have his book, Roman by Polanski, and read his chapter about what he says happens, all right? the situation was not that she was against all this. She was down to party with Roman. And they partied. let’s talk about it the way it is. She was down with a party. He was down with a party we’re not talking about rape anymore, or we’re not talking about doing it against her will it’s just, it’s a minor situation … … it’s a situation that she’s a minor. Is it against the law? You’re right. in this book, though, do you know what happened? In his book, he talks about why he slipped. I have a little bit of information on this, all right, as opposed to just popping off on this and that and the other. Look, okay, I don’t believe that’s rape, I believe it’s against the law, all right? I don’t believe it’s rape. I mean, not at 13. Not for these 13-year-old party girls."
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