And for the first time, a lot of students, and in a way the American public at large, saw the depths and the ferocity of that radicalism.

Despite the fact that the case fell apart within six months, all charges were dropped, the district attorney was disbarred, and each player received upwards of $20 million in settlements from both Duke and the City of Durham, the Duke lacrosse case is still invoked by American right-wingers 20 years later.

I'm not saying what happened to those three players wasn't traumatic.

It clearly was.

But from modern conservative rhetoric, you would think that they received the same unimaginable cruelty as the five Black teenagers wrongly accused of rape in 1989 who became known as the Central Park Five, now the Exonerated Five.

You know, the ones Donald Trump called to be executed by the state, who were forced to spend their entire young adulthoods behind bars?

(laughs)

And Miller used that to his advantage, laser-focused on his immigration obsession.