NOT HOLDING RAPEISTS ACCOUNTABLE IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE BECAUSE OF THEIR ‘POTENTIAL’ IS HOW YOU GET A RAPIST FOR PRESIDENT AND AN ACCUSED RAPIST FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.

woman has accused seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University of sexually assaulting her in October 2024, a case now known as the “Cornell 7.” The Tompkins County district attorney first declined to bring charges, but reopened the investigation in late September 2026 after she filed a lawsuit. Cornell expelled or suspended some of the students. A lawyer for one of them denies the accusations, and no one has been charged.
The case has drawn in Rosie O’Donnell, who shared a graphic on her Instagram account that puts President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth side by side. Its text argues that letting young men off for sexual assault in high school and college because of their “potential” is how the country ended up with “a rapist for President and an accused rapist for secretary of defense.” Her caption”