Ep. 252 - I will respond to the lies with receipts one last time.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Over the past 2 weeks, I have tried my best to ignore the constant lies about me, my work, my teams, our fundraising, and more. Today I will respond, with receipts and details, one last time. After that, you can lie about me, but that's on you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every now and then you just have to respond to the bullshit.
0:06.0	This is Sean King, and you are listening to
0:10.0	The breakdown.
0:11.0	The breakdown. The Breakdown. The Breakdown.
0:15.0	The Breakdown. The Breakdown. Right now I am caught between a war of two very opposing factions of my own friends and family in my life.
0:36.0	One group of friends and family have all begged me
0:40.0	to never ever again respond to a single false accusation saying that I have misspent or
0:48.7	misallocated or scammed or defrauded a single person out of a single penny a day in my life.
0:56.9	It has never happened.
0:59.7	Every single person, family, cause, and charity I have ever raised a single penny for, received every
1:09.6	single dollar that we raised. And not a single person, not a single family or cause or
1:16.9	charity that I have ever raised money for, has ever even said that they didn't get the money that we raised.
1:25.0	It's never happened.
1:27.0	And I have maintained, as many of you know,
1:30.0	very close relationships with each family that we've supported know very
1:35.0	day. I have seen though,
1:40.0	hundreds of thousands of comments and d'emams and emails over the past week begging me to just
1:48.1	let the haters hate so that I can focus on the work that I do every day and the truth is you are right.
1:57.0	I should not have to respond to this.
2:00.0	It's false. It's a fabrication. It's a lie.
2:05.0	But I have another faction of my family and friends, including my own wife, Ray.
2:10.0	Some of my closest friends, including several staff members of the North Star, who are so
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