Candace Owens continued her attempts to rehabilitate former Hollywood producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday, publishing a second softball interview with Weinstein where she suggested he had been “set up.”
“Harvey, it’s good to speak with you again,” opened Owens, to which Weinstein replied, “Nice to hear your voice, Candace, and see you.”
After Owens asked Weinstein how he was doing, the former film producer launched into a complaint about the proceedings of his most recent sexual assault trial, which resulted in a conviction last month.
“There’s no reason that this trial shouldn’t be a mistrial, and so you can add me to those voices, you know, who feel that something’s wrong with the system,” Weinstein protested. “This is a terrible outcome.”
Owens then asked:
Have you considered that it could be deeper than that? And I know that I’ve asked you this offline, but that there was somebody who wanted you put away, that there was somebody who wanted your company? I mean, these are genuinely the questions that I have asked myself when looking at your case because, to me, there is just overwhelming evidence that you were set up here. Like, there’s just no objective look at the evidence, in my view, that you come away going, “Harvey Weinstein is definitively guilty.”
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Owens declared, “I do think that you stepped on somebody’s toes.”
“I agree with you, Candace,” replied Weinstein. “You know, looking back on it, there are definitely people. You know, I can’t say who–”
Owens interrupted, “Why not? Why can’t you say who? What do you have to lose?”
“Because I’m not sure that I’m right,” said Weinstein. “I will say that I think there are people whose toes I stepped on, and I will also say there are politicians whose toes I stepped on, and as a result of the two forces mingling together, and you throw in the New York Times, and you have enormous prejudice against me.”
He claimed, “The inner sanctum of Hollywood did not enjoy my success,” adding, “The establishment I would not say was my friends.”
The interview was just Owens’ most recent attempt to rehabilitate the convicted sex offender, who is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence.
Owens conducted her first interview with Weinstein
“I made mistakes. There’s no question about it. I hurt my family. I hurt my friends. I cheated on my wife,” said Weinstein. “But I did not commit these crimes. I swear that before God and the people watching now and on my family. I’m wrongfully accused.”
In April, Owens said, “He was wrongfully convicted is my conclusion.”
Watch above via Candace Owens.