President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on Saturday morning to the news that the woman who accused three Duke Lacrosse players of rape in 2006 has now recanted her story.
“Woman admits to totally fabricating accusations in the horrible Duke Lacrosse Case,” Trump posted on social media. “She destroyed the lives of these young men.”
Crystal Mangum, now 46, made the admission during an interview with Katerena DePasquale at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where Mangum is serving time for killing her boyfriend in 2011.
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t, and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me,” Mangum said. “I made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.”
Mangum added that she hoped the falsely accused students…
