Molly McPherson explains why denying a crisis and attacking victims backfires. When someone shifts from taking responsibility to claiming something is false without evidence, they've lost the moral ground they had when they acted first. Cornered subjects who lash out at victims signal a crisis response that won't recover.
He can't say it's false if he doesn't know what happened. He's contradicting his own story. I would agree. I absolutely would agree. It's the denial under the forced disclosure. And also, and if you compare it to the tone and the posture, where earlier his redemption framing was more self-initiated, that accountability worked because it was self-initiated. Right now he's cornered. And when he got cornered, he denied and attacked. Deny, attack. When I see attacks against the victim, red flag.
