The Philip DeFranco Show - Looksmaxxing Influencer Clavicular Charged With Rape & The Real Reason Trump Has a Mamdani Problem

Episode Date: September 22, 2026

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We dive into what's really going on with Trump and Mamdani as the UN General Assembly's going down. The internet's divided on how Lindsay Clancy's lawyer is now going after the holdout juror. And this new bombshell investigation into Susan Collins, the FBI and corruption just exposed a lot. We're talking about all of that and even more. On today's brand-new Philip DeFranco show, you daily dive into the news, starting with this. Lindsay Clancy's lawyer now wants the holdout juror in the case to be investigated. Right. And specifically, Kevin Reddington, right, our lawyer, asked the judge to examine in the juror's cell phone metadata because he was accused of using it during deliberations.

And he also wants the juror to be asked about his truthfulness on a questionnaire that he had to fill out during jury selection. The Redington insisted that this, quote, inquiry will not touch the substance of deliberations. And this is actually kind of an unusual move, especially because the filing is not seeking an outcome. Right. You've got places like the New York Times noting that it's not clear if there are any grounds to reverse the jury's decision.

Though also another one at Clancy's lawyers separately asked the judge to dismiss the case. Reclaiming that this trial could have been avoided if the judge had replaced this juror with an alternate during deliberations. Right. And all of this, as there's been just so much backlash, conversation, praise, and everything in between for this one juror. Because if you somehow missed it, Lindsay Clancy was charged with killing her three young kids before attempting to kill herself, but she pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming that she was dealing with severe postpartum psychosis and that voices in her head told her to do it. And so the trial was really about her mental health and mental state at the time of the murders.

And even if she was found not guilty, it looked like she would be sent to a mental hospital and not allowed to just walk free. But that case, of course, ended in a mistrial earlier this month when 11 people on the jury voted that she could not be found guilty, but one juror, wanted to convict. And with all that said, as far as Reddington wanting this juror investigated, read a juror who's now been identified as Michael Desronville, you've seen some pushback, some backlash. You had Michael's lawyer saying that this, quote, loony-toons motion is, quote, not just an attack on Michael for being the courageous lone holdout juror, saying Redington's motion is actually a full frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution. And adding, because if the new normal is that jurors are going to face brutal reprisals for disagreeing with a defense attorney,

you can kiss the Sixth Amendment, which ensures the right to a fair trial goodbye. And you had a law professor also telling the New York Times that the motion leaves a bad taste in your mouth because a request like this usually only happens after a conviction when the defense believes fraud, bribery, or discrimination occurred among jurors. And saying a motion like Reddingtons could tell other jurors, the privacy doesn't matter if you come up with the wrong views in a case, views that the rest of the jury did not support. But then also at the same time, you have a lot of people saying, hey, it's not like there was just one thing with this juror. Or with people pointing to moments like the jury foreperson previously saying that he refused to acquit even though he had doubts. He had reasonable doubt. He admitted he had. reasonable doubt after we watched that video of the interview. I think that's when it was.

He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms. I was so excited. And then he said, but I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity. Also, other jurors just saying that he was hard to work with, that he would not engage in discussions with them and instead just scrolled on his phone. But then he would also apparently still say things like, you know, I don't know if the prosecution or the defense proved their case. And after the trial, the juror also apparently told people he believed Clancy was guilty from day one. And then as we were learning about all this, there's then also been a ton of reporting on his past. And that includes the fact that he had been previously accused of domestic violence. And he had a pending eviction case and a restraining

order against him. And because Massachusetts jury questionnaire asks about prior arrests and charges, some think that it's at least strange that the legal teams decided to cede him in the case. Right. So this is likely why Clancy's lawyer wants the questionnaire to be investigated to verify that he actually disclosed his arrests. And for his part, a few days ago, you had Disronville releasing a statement through his lawyer claiming, I didn't have any doubt. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented Saying based on all the physical evidence key witnesses and what the prosecution presented I thought it was enough proof that She clancy knew exactly what she was doing and planned and with this there are also plenty of people that are on his side

Or depending on where you go online there have been very different reactions one to the case in general and two about this juror The case was already incredibly divisive it then got politicized and for a lot of people this juror is either a hero or a villain And actually, those on the hero's side, they're part of the reason why a give-send go fundraiser has raised over $380,000 for him. Or with the description saying that it's meant to cover security, legal fees, and lost work that he may experience amid the fallout. But then also, generally, this has led to a massive debate about how both the very public scrutiny and praise that he's facing could impact our jury injustice system. Because juries, they're supposed to operate without bias, without concerns for their safety, and also in total privacy. And the goal is that the public's not going to meddle with jury proceedings. And so when it comes to this idea of everything we've seen and this juror receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in crowdfunding, you have some are.

arguing, turning jury service and specifically a particular vote into something financially rewarding is abhorrent to me and frankly goes against everything the judiciary is supposed to stand for. And then you also have something that are just concerned about the fact that the juror has been publicly outed. And as we've talked about, there's a ton of reporting on him, his decision and his life in general. And there's a ton of reporting on NBC News legal analyst saying, I think it could absolutely have a chilling effect on jurors potentially serving. But as far as what happens next, the next hearing is set for September 29. And that will likely answer questions of whether or not there's going to be a retrial regarding Lindsay Clancy. As far as the court of public opinion, that is a, that is a court of public opinion, that is. constantly playing out. But then, jumping from that, a story that was one of the most requested things on our text line, 813-213-4-4-2-3. If you haven't joined yet, definitely do, just shoot us a text. We should talk about the Donald Trump-Mandani situation. Because whenever these two meet, you've got fireworks going off, I guess, IRL, and in the reactions online. Right, and the two, they've met twice before. Once last November, once last February, but both times were at the White House. But this time, you're the two at the mayor's official residence at Gracie Mansion, and as always, it seems like they were warm and cordial. Right, because after about an hour,

You had them strolling down the stairs together, chatting, and you had Trump joining Mamdani for a news conference that he wasn't even scheduled to be a part of. And there, you had Mamdani kicking things off doing what he kind of always does, talking about affordability for New Yorkers. You know, all of this at first glance it can seem a little bit counterintuitive

because not only is New York a deep blue city in a blue state, but Trump has called affordability a hoax. But of course, Trump is also from New York. He's got a history, we'll call it there. And perhaps more importantly, Momdani used a little trick to make him suddenly care about affordability. But he focused the issue on housing.

And if there is anything, that Donald Trump loves more, that, you know, being a center of attention and trying to govern a country, it is ordering people to build stuff. I know a lot about affordability because I did that housing. I did many, many low-income and moderate-income buildings over the years. Now, if this is a different video, there's a lot to unpack there, specifically his history of who he would give those units to or rent those units to. But for today, as far as the specific housing project, I'm Daney's trying to get the president

on board with, it's called Sunnyside Yard. And it's a 190-acre rail yard in Queens that Mom Dani wants to turn into a mega complex with 12,000 new homes. And you've got estimates saying that the cost will be over $20 billion. It's obviously some money, some help from Washington. That would go a long way. Which is actually why Mom Dani brought this up way back at their second meeting in February. And this time, you know what I'm saying, that Trump agreed to move forward with the next step in the process. I appreciate the president his interest in this.

And we also know the president, not just as the leader of the country, but also as someone who has built quite a lot of housing here in our city. I don't know, Mr. President, you want to add anything. Well, I can tell you that Sunnyside's a big job. I've been watching that for 35 years. Everybody's wanted to do something with Sunnyside Yards. I would say that was a very federal-oriented job. You're going to need a lot of federal approvals

and probably some federal money to do it. Now, with all that, you have many local officials skeptical, especially because funding would need congressional approval. And Trump usually is not that interested in projects that'll be done after he's out of office. But that's only one aspect of the situation, because there was then the interaction between those two and the reporters. Right, and as the reporters moved on to other topics,

you could tell that they kept trying to get Mumdani to criticize the president directly while he was there. And so for example, they asked the mayor to react to Trump banning CNN, MS Now, and political from the White House the other day with Mumdani saying, I told the president that we're gonna have all of the members of the press here on the lawn, and that is something that I believe in as everyone, no matter the opinion or the critique, that we engage, and I don't know, Mr. President. Yeah, it's interesting because they said, They were going to boycott me, but they never boycott me.

So I wasn't very worried about that. Look at all that press. If you look at CNN, it's fake news. If you look at MS Now, I don't even know what MS now is. I guess it's the MSNBC, what it used to be, or MSDNC, as some people call it. That's Democrat National Committee. Right, and then, interestingly, you had a spokesperson being like, okay, that's all the time we have. Let's go, Mr. President.

But instead of actually going, Triv just stood there, right, smiling next to Mom Donnie for, I think it was a full 40 seconds until the reporter was. like, is he going? The president is still here. The president's still here. I want to follow up on what he said about the mayor. You said Mr. President is saying, you can answer a couple more questions.

But then after about a minute and a half, Trump, he finally leaves. And with that, I'm trying to figure out how to describe, like, how the mood changed when he left. Because it kind of felt like when you're hanging out with a group of friends and like the one person that kind of feels off leaves. But then he leaves and all of a sudden,

it's a whole different vibe. And actually, after Trump, Exited, that's more or less how the reporter opened his first question for Mom Dani after that. Can you tell us just, you know, now he's not here, so. But Mamdani, for his part, he stayed locked in. Right, continuing to talk about what he stands for, how he's trying to help the people that he's representing, and at the same time, not taking huge shots at Trump. So like, when a reporter asked him for his reaction to Trump's comments about TPS,

he was just like, hey, I made my case to him about the Haitians, that they're critical to New York City. And when another asked him, you know, whether it's a bad look to be meeting with Trump at all, he was like, well, these meetings are productive. Right in there, you don't point, to their second meeting in February when Mamdani apparently persuaded Trump to release a Columbia University student who had been detained by ICE. But we've seen since January that ICE arrests have increased since you became mayor.

So I'm wondering, do you still think that this tactic is worth it to sort of take a softer touch with the president in exchange for maybe sparing New York City more enforcement? And is there a point where this no longer makes sense for you? You know, the president and I have both been very frank about the many. agreements that we have. And immigration is one of those places. I will continue to have conversations with the president and frankly with anyone who can deliver relief to the people of the city. Now, whether you agree with them or not, that's obviously up to you. Personally, just my opinion, I think that Mamdani is doing what he thinks is best for the people that he's representing. And once

again, my opinion, I think this is very different. Some people have been making comparisons to this being like Hakeem Jeffries meeting with a Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, which by the way, that was like a secret meeting with someone that is not. not the president of the United States or a key member, at least officially, of the administration. I think it's wild to compare the two. Also, looking at this, it looks like

Mamdani is playing Trump perfectly. So I think it's pretty clear why he's using this tactic with Trump and it looks effective thus far. But it is way less obvious what Trump's goal with all this is, right, what the strategy here is. So actually, to try to get some insight here to understand Trump's game plan regarding all things Mamdani, I thought we could use a little help,

which is why we're gonna kick it to our new musical correspondence, Zach, Shay, and Caleb. Hey Phil, it's actually pretty simple when you dive into the recent dating. You mean data. Not to the president. Someone's got a little crush on Mom Donnie. We see I missed a president heart sick, Donnie.

Ooh, ooh, we feel it too. Took a little joy right on Air Force One. To see his favorite mayor and I crazily mention. He's boo-hoo. To see his boo-hoo. A socialist except one on his socialist The Secret Service swept the log for threats and missile Sean Donnie

Can't hide that the fair's a haughty Donnie wants Johnny and Donnie wants affordable housing Donnie's hands Comes from ringing them when he stands Next to you Mom Donnie you Who But he wants the only one that he can't get.

Who do? What a lonely do? Next is you not the ultra wealthy. Sorry. I'm Mom Donnie. Back to you, Phil. Yeah, honestly, they bring up good points. But also, another reason you had Trump in New York,

and one of the things we should talk about, is his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Now, if you turn to CNN this morning, you might have missed it. And this because they refused to air his speech amid the ongoing war between Trump and the press. So also even describing it like that, doesn't do it justice. It's just Trump attacking the press.

Because as we talked about yesterday, you had all the major networks that comprise the White House press pool will be cutting the president's events over his ban a CNN and others. And actually with that, you had Marco Rubio hopping on the Today Show to defend his boss's decision. Look, I gotta be honest with you,

maybe you're not gonna like to hear this, but I watch a lot of American news coverage and it sounds in some cases, for example, like they're rooting for Iran. With all due respect, should media outlets be banned because the president doesn't like their coverage? Should you be able to- Well, they're not banned.

They are banned. They're banned for, no. They're banned from the White House. No, we're not closing CNN. We're not closing CNN. There aren't a bunch of police officers or soldiers kicking down the doors of MSNBC or MSN, now, whatever it's called, and arresting people and I'm plugging it from the grid. They're just not allowed to work from the workspace at the White House. So you know, some fun gaslighting.

Hey, guys, it's not a ban unless the military is kicking down your door. It's not an attack on free speech or the free press. But back to Trump's UN speech. Because you had him kicking it off with all the same superlatives that we heard countless times before. I'm saying, don't believe your lying eyes and ears and lived experiences, saying this is the most prosperous economy ever, the most secure border ever, the strongest military, the best technology, the lowest crime. Saying two years ago, we were a dead country. Now we're the hottest country in the world. Saying under Biden, we were in a dark age. Now we're living through an unbelievable golden age. The entire world is being lifted by the wealth, strength, spirit and momentum of a newly energized and a very powerful United States of America.

But then he got around to the other elephant in the room, and that, of course, is Iran. Now, according to Trump, their military is completely obliterated. Ours is just fine, and as more munitions that it knows what to do with, ships are flowing freely through the straight and oil prices, they're going to drop soon. Really, despite all those claims, the United States is, of course, still at war with no clear end in sight. And Trump told the room, I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?

And he says that he thinks that they'll make a deal. They'll only do it after the midterms. They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election. What they don't realize is that I'm not running. I did that already and won in a landslide. We won in a giant landslide. And then after that he attacked most of his other perceived enemies, like Cuba, Hamas, communism, AI skeptics, even the United Nations itself as well as what he called globalists. It is equally unacceptable that with all the genuine atrocities in the world,

the UN's top human rights officials spend their time criticizing the United States for protecting our children from transgender mutilization and transcegeneralization. gender insanity. But otherwise, really not much to note. It's kind of your general, uh, disconnected from reality, don't know how much he's lying versus how much he's being misinformed. Rambly mess where he tries to say certain words or places and has a hard time. Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan. As well as his tendency to talk about himself in the third person. President Donald Trump issued a new and effective statement that really has brought great peace and space through. really a breakthrough that we thought was impossible.

And actually just to bring this segment back around, tie a little bow on it, while that Trump dumpster fire train rack was playing out, Mumdani. He announced that DoorDash is now having to pay $130 million-plus settlement to their workers. DoorDash even seemingly had to apologize, saying we messed up, saying our mistakes meant

some New York City dashes were underpaid or paid late and saying that's unacceptable and we're deeply sorry to the dashes we let down. But then on the other side, you had Mamdani putting it very differently. Today, after years of corporate greed and impunity, we are holding DoorDash to account. City Hall will not sit idly by, while a mega corporation that made nearly a billion dollars in profits last year rips off the working people who keep our city moving. For three years, DoorDash must also send DCWP detailed data every month to check compliance on minimum pay, maximum distance, trip disclosures, and pay and trip. tip transparency, rather. To ensure those numbers are accurate, we are relying on the people

who know this work best, the workers themselves. As you have heard, the Workers Justice Project and the Workers' Algorithm observatory are engineering software that lets delivery workers record the DoorDash app and share it directly with the city. For the first time, workers will have the power to crowdsource data and investigate the black box algorithms that dictate their schedules and pay. And seemingly as, you know, the debate and the discourse, it plays out in all the places you'd expect, Domani just keeps stacking on win after win. And notably, wins for the people. And then there's even more that we've got to dive into in just a minute. But first, a quick word from a sponsor. Today's sponsor, Balesa, they're giving away free rose toys to every single one of

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And then, diving right back into the news, we've got to talk about this bombshell ProPublica report. Right, because it's about this huge corruption scandal that the FBI was about to uncover, but then Trump killed it. And it actually all starts with Senator Susan Collins of Maine and a bakery. Because in 2019, you had Collins really behind

in fundraising and worrying about losing her seat. And so reportedly you had Scott Reed, head of Collins' super PAC, coming up with a sketchy-ass plan to get the campaign back on track. Strike a deal with a Hawaiian defense contractor Navitech. Because you see, a year prior, Collins had helped out the company with a multi-million dollar Navy research contract.

And reportedly, they wanted more government contracts in Maine, and so Reed realized that he had leveraged there. And so he met up at a corner bakery with the CEO of the company, Martin Cow, who reportedly casually asked that Collins guaranteed tens of millions of dollars in addition to federal funding. And Reed is said to have agreed to those terms. And with all this, you know, I've got to note that government contractors, they are not allowed to make political contributions.

And they certainly can't offer donations in exchange for things. Right, that's that little thing we call bribery. And so apparently to hide all their sketchy shit, Navitech came up with a plan to transfer the donation through a shell company. And in fact, right after that meeting, Cow sent an initial payment of $150,000. And according to the report, two months later, you got him telling company executives that Collins had committed $32 million in naval contracts. So obviously, very suspicious. And the sussness, it doesn't end with Collins. Because it turns out that Cowan is pals, they actually donated about $900,000 to a bunch of politicians. It appears that way, Navitech was able to establish operations in several states with over $40 million a year in government funding.

And then what was really crazy with all this is that ProPublica found that Navitech's work for the government was, quote, of no real value. Right. And then wouldn't you know it with all this, the FBI comes sniffing around. And they saw it right through the Shell Company ruse. Cow got arrested for fraud in 2020 and a grand jury indicted him for illegal campaign contributions in 2022. And so with him looking at years and years in prison, he flips. Right, he's hoping for a chance to shorten his sentence. And he reportedly laid out in excruciating detail for the FBI how all this worked. We're talking a 50-page document handed to agents naming dozens of lobbyists, congressional staffers,

and members of Congress who he said helped him trade cash for contracts. He also told agents that the politicians, including Collins, were willing participants saying it takes two to tangle. He also gave them a roadmap detailing all the Congress members in Avetek dealt with, email addresses and phone numbers of people cow said were involved and should be subpoenaed. And his interviews, they opened up a whole new phase of investigation. Because, yeah, this appeared to be a felon that was trying to worm his way out of serving as much time as possible. But also, agents were actually reportedly able to corroborate much of his story by

scanning through hundreds of thousands of records seized during his arrest. And while it was in the very early stages, everything he provided, everything that the agents had discovered. It reportedly gave the FBI enough to open a sweeping bribery probe, a probe that would have wrapped up major figures in both parties. Except that probe, it never happened. And that's because shortly after Cow's interviews wrapped up, Trump became president again. And as you might remember, he purged the DOJ and stacked it with his own personal lawyers. Right, anyone who ever investigated him, they were gone, agents and prosecutors, they were quitting, and the specialized teams handling public corruption investigations, they were at

They were reportedly decimated agent by agent at the hands of Trump's chosen FBI director, Cash Patel. And one of the agents who actually took Cow's confession was pushed out in retaliation for her work investigating Trump himself. And now, like in today's version of the DOJ, Trump's DOJ, there's no meaningful work being done against public corruption, and so everything with the cow seems to be dead. Right, which is actually where it should be, according to a number of people who were seemingly involved. With that including Collins' office vigorously denying the allegations, calling Cow's claims outlandish or deputy chief of staff saying Collins's office fully cooperated with the FBI's investigation. and added, the fact that the FBI and Biden-led Department of Justice thoroughly examined the Navitech matter demonstrates this, saying these issues were resolved in 2021 and concluded when the Collins campaign disgorged the illegal contributions that Martin Cow had made without our knowledge.

For now, the reality is that all of this, it's going to play out in the court of public opinion, right? We are now less than two months away from the midterm elections. Collins, she's in a very tight race against Troy Jackson. And while seemingly, the DOJ is not interested here, the voters may be. Especially because it appears for a number of people, they're now reviewing Collins' actions through a new lens. Looking at the timing, looking at the allegations going, oh, is this why she voted for Pam Bondi? Is this why she made this or that decision?

Right, along with other decisions that are more directly connected to the allegations. And very soon, we'll see where people land on this and a lot more. And then, actually, let's jump from a dropped investigation into an ongoing one because we should talk about this clavicular situation. Because if you're unfamiliar, clavicular, aka Braden Peters, he's this Gen Z face of the Manosphere. He's often referred to as a looks maxing influencer, a kickshy. streamer. As a part of his initial blowup, you had clips of him talking about hammering your bones

in your face. Like that was a hack of his to look more attractive. But now you've got him in the news because he's been charged with rape in Massachusetts. And specifically, he's facing a count of drugging someone for sexual intercourse and one count of procuring liquor for someone under the age of 21. Right, according to the court records that are now coming to light, the charges were initially filed back in September 8th and the alleged offenses happened in May of 2025. So you've got this arraignment that's scheduled for October 14th, with clivicular reportedly facing up to life in prison. And with that, you had a spokesperson for clivicular. responding to the report, saying Braden Peters has not been physically served, as usual,

the bulwark is exaggerated, which is where we saw this report initially blowing up. And you were this spokesperson saying that these new criminal charges stem from a civil suit that he refused to settle. Right, to be clear, the latest court documents, they do not reveal the name of the alleged victim. But you've had people talking about how this new information lines up with a report from last April. Right, where 18-year-old DeLora Zyva, whose real name is Alexandra Basilevna Mendoza brought a civil suit against clavicular, accusing him of battery fraud and sexual misconduct,

accusing him of injecting her with aquilix without her permission during a live stream, which is a fat-dissolving substance, which is not FDA-approved. She also accused him of non-consensual sexual encounters at his parents' home in Cape Cod saying that she was a minor and intoxicated at the time. And according to the lawsuit, Clivocular paid her $1,000 and claimed that he wanted to make her the female face of looks maxing. But they ended up having a very turbulent relationship. Now, Clivicular has denied the allegations. Since in July, you had him filing a motion to dismiss certain counts of that lawsuit,

and that including the one about sexual misconduct. And then with all this, what you saw last night is that after the rape, charge news broke. Clavicular jumped on Twitter and started defending himself by posting photos and videos featuring Mendoza. He shared a clip of Mendoza praising him. Not dating Clav. Just did a little stream together where he injected Aqualix. It was really fun. Super nice. Send me an Uber home right after. There was also another clip of her claiming to be 18, though we don't actually know when that was film. She is 16? Absolutely not.

Absolutely not. No. How old are you? 18. Okay, good. And he also posted alleged messages from her asking for his help setting up kick and saying, she wants him and is tired of being independent. And then, there's this photo of an alleged letter that Mendoza wrote to him.

Well, the handwriting is kind of tough to make out. The note appears to read, just know, Braden, you have my loyalty 100%. I admire the man you are and secretly the values you had about how women should be in the kitchen, L.O.L. But I want to stay on this grind and grow with you. I'm also really thankful for you helping me as much as you have been.

And then in a different post from last night, you had him randomly calling her out for wanting to be a bottle girl writing. Happens to all successful young men. People try to come for your money. Greed is evil. And then as far as reactions that we've seen coming from this report

in these updates. You've got a number of people out there saying that these allegations aren't actually surprising coming from a Manosphere influencer like him. Some joking, it's always the people who you expect it from. Others saying fork found in kitchen, saying he's never been shy about the disgust and hate he has for women, saying men with his mentality are all a danger to a society. And others saying things like, interesting that half of the Manosphere is in jail for rape and the other half is visiting the White House. Wonder if that means anything. Or with that, appearing to be a shot at Jake Paul and Logan Paul and other types that we've seen at the White House. The Pauls most recently. But for now, in the clivicular front, we're going to have to wait to see how this

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Starting with the huge news around the Nolan Wells case. Right, because after months of this case taking the country by storm, conspiracies, independent investigations, YouTube interviews with witnesses, a grand jury just decided that there going to be no criminal charges filed. After 132 subpoenas and 43 witnesses, you had the district attorney say, the grand jury finds no credible evidence to support the public allegations that any persons who rode to or from Horn Island on July 4, 2026, engaged in any criminal conduct related to the death of Mr. Wells. This is huge news, right?

Because from the start, there are a lot of people just skeptical about the story surrounding his death. Right, apparently he went there that day with a group of friends, but they went back home without him after the boat that they used started taking on some water. Hear them saying that Wells stayed behind and planned to catch a ride home with someone else. Then by the end of that day, he was missing, and it wasn't long before that made national news. But then, what you saw is that after his body was found on the sixth, things took off even more,

with people asking if whatever happened to him could have been racially motivated. Also questioning whether the state of Mississippi would give him a fair investigation, given their history with racism and civil rights violations. The family even got Ben Crump on the case so that they could have had their own independent review of what could have happened.

But now you've got the DA shooting it all down, saying there is absolutely no evidence to support the allegation that Nolan's disappearance in death were racially motivated. And along with that, the grand jury report addressed some of the other big rumors that we've been hearing, saying it's not unusual or suspicious

for people to catch rides on different, boats like Wells reportedly planned to. And saying that there was no evidence of him getting into any fights that day, so those online rumors didn't hold up either. And then with all this, you were the DA calling Crump out for how he handled all those suspicions, saying, I'm not suggesting that a grieving mother police the rumors surrounding her child's death. But adding, what I am suggesting is that the Crump knew better but did not do better.

But as far as Crump, he still doesn't seem convinced. Right, saying all of this, it just leaves us with more questions than answers and claiming. We still don't know how Nolan died and neither does the state of Mississippi. Right in there, technically officials in both the state and the independent autopsy said that his cause of death was undetermined, with a state specifying that drowning was a diagnosis of exclusion. Now you've got the grand jury also saying

that the position and condition his body was found in, along with the time and location of discovery, it's all consistent with drowning. So for now, that's where things stand unless something big happens or changes. And he with his family speaking out about all this earlier today saying the report reinforce the fact that Nolan was not given a thorough,

transparent, and honest investigation. And you would crump adding that they'll never stop trying to figure out what exactly happened that day. Also, in the news from there, we should talk about swastikas, the N-word, Confederate flags, quote, go back to Africa. Because apparently, that's what black Tesla employees have been seeing all over the place at work. You've got them claiming that the higher-ups haven't been doing anything about it.

And specifically what you're seeing here is that dozens of black employees from Tesla's Fremont plant in California, they reported dealing with these types of racial slurs, along with unequal pay, racial segregation, and bullying from their supervisors on a daily basis. This actually goes back of it. They filed a lawsuit in 2022 seeking financial damages and injunctive relief, which could force Tesla to change its labor practices and internal policies. And the reason we're talking about it now is the case finally made its way to court yesterday.

where they were able to show evidence of some of the absolutely foul stuff they say that they were seeing at work. And that includes them talking about some of the verbal abuse they say they experienced. With one person, even saying she was asked if she wanted to hang from a tree. Also, another witness they called to the stand said that he was the one who got written up after a co-work called him the N-word. And you also had people claiming that they had seen firsthand how HR would treat black employees differently from other races. And they're even bringing up a situation where white employees were caught drinking at work, but they got to keep their jobs after Elon Musk himself stepped in to override company policy. But as far as Tesla, they're denying all this and calling the lawsuit misguided.

In adding that higher-ups have, quote, always disciplined and terminated employees who engage in misconduct, including those who use racial slurs or harass others in different ways. But that's also not what it appears that their track record shows. For years, they've had legal troubles being accused of ignoring racial complaints like these. They've also had similar issues when it comes to female employees who report physical assaults and other forms of harassment on the job. Though still, you have the company maintaining that they've implemented policies to work against that and punish employees when they cross the line. Though with that, you had a lawyer for the California Civil Rights Department saying, despite what Tesla might argue, you will hear black workers were deeply offended and adding that 100,

of complaints to Tesla and the Civil Rights Department will show that these experiences were not isolated. As far as what happens from here, you have people kind of split. And part of that appears to be connected to the fact that this is a bench trial and it's going to be up to Superior Court Judge Peter Borkin to make the call, and he handed Tesla a win in a separate lawsuit last year. And then your final bit of news today is that we've got to talk about updates around Paramount Warner Brothers. Because you now have way more people than Mark Ruffalo tearing into Gavin Newsom and others over this settlement and merger. But then also in addition to that, you have a lot of people going, okay, well, what now? Because from the start, you had people like California AG, Rob,

Banta, totally against the merger. You had Karen Bass saying the same thing. But now with where we are, you have Bass saying we must focus on holding the company is accountable to keep productions on LA stages and ensure paychecks for hardworking Angelinos. But that's also where a lot of things get messy. Because it seems like this decision was ultimately made to try to keep jobs in Hollywood. And yes, Paramount or rather the Ellisons with them threatening to leave California. If they had left, that would have been horrible for the state. But even with them saying, you have a lot of people asking and a lot of reports coming out saying, well, how many jobs are actually going to be saved? Are we going to see? cuts, how soon, and that's as David Ellison apparently expects this deal to officially close within the next two weeks. So you're seeing execs out there saying, I don't see a world where they're not laying off a bunch of people before the end of the year, saying I think that there are many people in the industry who don't even understand the toll it's going to take. And with this, while you have a lot of people not really blaming the AG, right, Rob Bontah really appears to have been forced here, even saying the agreement was not a boat of support for this merger. One of the people most likely to take a hit from this is Gavin Newsom. Where you report saying that his fingerprints are all over

this, that there was a lot of pressure from him onto the AG, or rather him and others. With one of the main arguments in support of this being that Gavin Newsom was in a hard place where really all options were going to be bad, so there was really just about picking the less bad version. But as far as what kind of hit Newsom takes here, it is going to depend on what things look like a few months from now, a year from now, and two years from now. With that, there are a number of different factors of play. How many movies and TV shows are being made? How many people are being hired or fired? What does CNN and CBS look like? And I imagine sooner than later, we're going to see the impacts. So that, my friends, you beautiful bastards, is the end of

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