Add The New York Post on Google The heartbreaking Lindsay Clancy murder trial has attracted all kinds of ghoulish behavior and exposed the inverted morality coursing through our society.
Still, in a sea of deranged women making Clancy their cause du jour and mobbing her lawyer at the courthouse like he’s Harry Styles, there’s one lady whose shamelessness trumps all.
Lisa Rinna, formerly of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and currently starring in TikTok hot takes from the front seat of her car, is singular in her disregard for facts and the humanity of those involved.
Two weeks ago, Rinna had the gall to move her artificially plumped lips to make this disgusting allegation.
“Alright, he did it. Patrick did it. Patrick is the one who did it. Not Lindsay,” she said, without adding an “allegedly” or any other language to couch her outrageous accusation about Lindsay’s bereaved ex-husband, Patrick Clancy.
“Patrick did it. Because, you know, I also heard that women typically don’t strangle.”
When females kill their offspring, she claimed, they usually poison or drown them.
“[My therapist] looks at me and she goes, ‘He did it.’ I was like, ‘Wow, yeah.'”
Perhaps she should have read at least one story about this trial before speaking. But who needs facts when you have a close to a million TikTok followers waiting to be fed more slop?
What a terrible thing to say about a man whose wife murdered their three small children and attempted to off herself by jumping out of a window head first.
After some well-deserved blowback, Rinna returned to her car studio — not to apologize, but to offer a defiant defense of her “free speech.”
“These are my opinions, this is my page and that’s that. So If you don’t like it, tough f–cking s–t.”
Stating that Italian food is better than Chinese food is an opinion. What she said was an outright lie and defamatory.
After living through this unspeakable tragedy and media spectacle, I’m sure Patrick only wants peace, privacy and the ability to move on with his life.
This case isn’t a whodunit. Lindsay has admitted to the horrific acts. The jury is now tasked with deciding if she is criminally responsible and, if so, it was murder or manslaughter.
This isn’t a cold case from 20 years ago. These are real people who have been irrevocably broken as their worst day plays out on a national stage and is picked apart like it’s game film.
Our obsession with true crime and the proliferation of all mediums to feed this beast has led to a detachment from our humanity.
Self-styled sleuths like Rinna treat ongoing cases and trials like movies where the people involved are mere characters to root for or against, rather than real humans living through unimaginable tragedy.
And, thanks to social media platforms, these true-crime obsessives have gone from living in conspiratorial silos to a collective coffee klatch.
Within that online community of narcissists, the boldest, most outrageous takes are rewarded with eyeballs, attention and money — and emboldened to push the envelope and cross every line of decency.
Such behavior creates a permission structure for people like Rinna to say whatever the hell they want.
Patrick lost his three precious children and the woman he once loved has disappeared into a lightless husk confined to a wheelchair. By all accounts, he was a devoted husband and father who did everything to help his wife weather the postpartum storm.
After the killings, Patrick released a statement that read, “My family was the best thing that ever happened to me. I took so much pride in being Lindsay’s husband and a dad to Cora, Dawson and Callan.”
As for Lindsay? He hoped she’d find “peace.”
And for that superhuman strength and grace, he gets a bunch of bored psychos accusing him of all kinds of things, including murdering his own children.
Rinna should do some self-reflection. Her aforementioned therapy isn’t working, but she should keep at it.
