Piers Morgan spent consecutive nights on his show recounting the rap sheet of British far right activist Tommy Robinson in an attempt to debunk any misconceptions held by guests Jordan Peterson and Tim Pool who jumped on board with Elon Musk’s support for the controversial figure.
The schooling comes as Musk continues to fiercely criticize the Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government for its decision to not commission a national inquiry into historic instances of child sexual abuse by grooming gangs involving men of Pakistani descent.
The scandal, which has been investigated by local authorities and in one 2014 state commissioned report already, involved more than 1,300 girls who had been sexually assaulted between 1997 and 2013. In a series of bitter exchanges Musk called Starmer, then top prosecutor, “deeply complicit and safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, who dismissed the inquiry request as a “rape genocide apologist.” Starmer accused Musk of spreading “lies and misinformation” about the scandal.
It was on at this time that Musk falsely claimed Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was imprisoned for speaking out against the abuse. The billionaire began advocating for Robinson’s release and promoting his work. Robinson is, in fact, currently serving an 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court.
Musk’s lionizing of Robinson was condemned by several prominent British politicians allied to President-elect Donald Trump, including Nigel Farage who Musk quickly turned on and denounced.
Yet, as conservative talking heads less familiar with the case began to weigh into the debate, Morgan was keen to convince guests who were clearly unacquainted with Robinson’s past that he was not “the Nelson Mandela freedom fighter” that Musk claims he is.
During separate panels on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Tuesday and Wednesday, featuring Pool and Peterson, Morgan ran off Robinson’s rap sheet, detailing his past run-ins with the law and history.
For a taste of the monologue delivered both nights, here’s how Morgan broke the story down for his guests on Tuesday:
He’s a convicted football hooligan who beat up a policeman and got convicted of that. He was convicted of passport fraud, trying to get into America, convicted of mortgage fraud, convicted of two contempts of court where he nearly wrecked trials involving the rape gang suspects when they were on trial, nearly literally avoiding justice for the girls in those cases.
He’s now in prison, nothing to do with the rape gang scandal, but entirely to do with his defamatory conduct towards a 15-year-old Syrian refugee boy, who he first of all defamed, trying to make him the villain of a video where he’d been bullied. This ended up with the Syrian refugee boy suing him, winning £100,000 in damages, nearly a million pounds in costs. And the judge told Robinson, do not repeat these lies. And then he repeats all the lies in a movie that he produces as a so-called journalist. And he goes to prison for contempt of court, which he knows he’s committing.
So on every level, you can agree with his message about the rape gang scandal, where he’s been right, like a lot of people. but you can also think he’s about the most despicable messenger imaginable.
