Megyn Kelly: Cornell Defendants "Fit Squarely Within Tish James's Identity Politics"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/10/08/megyn_kelly_cornell_defendants_fit_squarely_within_tish_jamess_identity_politics.html

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly is joined by Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review to discuss the 'Cornell 7' case:

MEGYN KELLY: And now twist in the story, I mean, real twist actually. Matt Ingles appears, according to reporting online, forgive me, because there was somebody who broke it online who did a good job of tracking down who he really is, and then the Daily Mail advanced it. He is not originally named Matt... and he's from the UAE. His name is Umar, and he is from the UAE. So Matt Ingles appears to be Muslim from the UAE, where the Daily Mail reports he has returned to Dubai in the wake of all of this. Who could blame him? I looked it up to see if they have an extradition treaty with the United States, and they don't. They don't. So Matt Ingles is out of here. He got expelled from Cornell along with Newell, and Jane Doe proceeds forward, but now the reason it's a real twist, is not just because we're throwing Muslims into the mix for no reason, but the four men who had sex with Jane Doe, according to Jane Doe, against her will. Now it's not what she was always saying, are a Muslim, a black kid, an Asian, and someone from, I believe… Portuguese. So you got four guys who fit squarely within Tish James's identity politics, which will elevate them in the world of Tish James over a white young woman from the deep South who uses terms like "y'all" regularly, and I do think it's interesting. I do actually think this could tip the balance in the minds of somebody like Tish James. That John Newell is clearly black or mixed race. He has an afro, and now the other main perpetrator is Muslim. This is getting very interesting.