NEW: Glenn Greenwald slams AOC and the press for branding the accused Cornell students "gang rapists" without a trial.
None of the seven has been charged, yet a sitting member of Congress described the allegations as fact.
GREENWALD: "This whole thing was triggered by the fact that somebody brought a civil lawsuit, a lawyer who's working on contingency... This is multi-million dollars at stake. And I hope it doesn't shock anybody, but oftentimes in civil litigation, people motivated by money do lie.
Why is it that these seven young people who are also students at Cornell are having their lives ruined... prominent people like AOC going around and calling them gang rapists, not even allegedly?
...we've had hoaxes like this before at Duke, where they tried to destroy the lives of these lacrosse players by falsely accusing them of rape, at the University of Virginia, where journalists did the same.
It's like these seven defendants, it's like their lives don't matter. They're sacrificed at the altar of a political cause."
ABC paid $15 million to settle after Stephanopoulos said Trump was "found liable for rape."
AOC said "seven men drugged and gang raped a 20-year-old woman" about private citizens who haven't been charged with a crime.